2025-26 Faculty Fellows selected
Congratulations to the faculty members who will join us in residence during the next academic year!
Congratulations to the faculty members who will join us in residence during the next academic year!
Art history students in Dr. Child's Van Gogh seminar will lead live audio description tours of the Van Gogh paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) this December.
The New York Times recently published an article on the excavation of a fourth-century church at Amheida (ancient Trimithis), the site where Dr. Aravecchia serves as Archaeological Field Director. The article discusses how the excavation's findings have revealed exciting, new information concerning early Christian burial practices.
The article highlights Dr. Aravecchia's excavations in Amheida
Over Spring break, Dr. Miller's class — “California Dreamin’: LA Culture and the Making of the Twentieth Century”— had the opportunity to spend seven days in Los Angeles, as part of the West Bay View Foundation Travel Seminar Endowment. Over the week, they explored both the renowned high art institutions and the grassroots public art that make the city an invaluable site for the development and study of American visual culture.
As part of the opening celebrations for Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s – 1970s, co-curators Eric P. Mumford and Michael E. Willis, were in conversation with Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator.
The latest volume from ISAW Monographs, Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church: Volume 1, The Excavations (Amheida VII) by Dr. Aravecchia has been published this September by The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press.
The Saint Louis Art Museum has released a recording of Dr. John Klein's April lecture on Matisse at the museum. The lecture was called “The Art of Immersion: Matisse’s Oceanic Escapes.”
Prof. Childs is currently featured in three of the four podcast episodes in the National Gallery of Australia's production, "The Gauguin Dilemma." You can hear her in episodes 1, 2, and 4.
Dr. Klein gave the author of the article, Jeannette Cooperman, a tour of the "Matisse and the Sea" exhibit.
Dr. Miller spoke in conversation with Nick Mauss, with whom she co-authored Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa.