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Student Spotlight | Tania Kolarik Awarded Kress Foundation Special Mobility Grant
Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik has been awarded a 2024 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Special Mobility Grant to attend the 36th Congrès du Comité International d’Historie de l’Art (CIHA) in Lyon, France this coming June.
Student Spotlight | Meg Wilson (Ph.D. Student) To Present at CVC Research Forum
Ph.D. Student Meg Wilson will be presenting their work in this year’s Center for Visual Cultures Research Forum on Friday, March 15th, 2024. The Research Forum will take place at the University Club, Room 212, 9:00am–4:00pm, lunch …
Save the Date! Japanese Painting Circa 1500: A Time of Upheaval and Innovation
Make sure to mark your calendars for Friday, April 12th, 2024 for our symposium on Japanese Art: “Japanese Painting Circa 1500: A Time of Upheaval and Innovation.” The symposium will be a hybrid event, and …
Faculty News | Professor Li Wins Best First Book in Ming Studies!
Professor Yuhang Li has won a second award for her first monograph, Becoming Guanyin:Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2020), by the Society for Ming Studies for their Inaugural Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for the …
Faculty News | Professor Casid at the Kohler Arts Center
On January 25th, Professor Jill Casid and artist Sunny Leerasanthanah lead a conversation at the Kohler Arts Center in the Social STUDIO focused on the short story “The Bad Graft” by Karen Russell, published in …
Student Spotlight | Professor Pruitt to Give Lecture At UChicago
Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be giving a lecture as part of the Smart Lecture Series at the University of Chicago on February 29th, 2024. The talk will explore a portion of her new book-in-progress, Inheriting an Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in …
Student Spotlight | A Winter Show Wonderland
In January, Eva Kushner (’24) visited the 70th edition of The Winter Show located at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City to experience the booth of esteemed UW–Madison alum, art dealer, and …
Student Spotlight | Medievalists’ Haggerty Exhibition Sneak Peak
Ph.D. Candidates Abby Armstrong Check, Claire Kilgore, and Tania Kolarik are co-curating a forthcoming exhibition on American Catholic collecting practices at the Haggerty Museum of Art on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. The show, which will take place …
Student Spotlight | Claire Kilgore Featured by Graduate School
Ph.D. Candidate Claire Kilgore was recently profiled by the UW–Madison Graduate School as a WARF-Funded graduate student. You can read the full write-up about Claire’s current research and forthcoming projects here.