For the Center for the Humanities, John Klein marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henri Matisse on December 31 with a meditation on the “slow looking” the artist’s work rewards.
As part of the course "Paul Gauguin in Context," a group of students traveled to London over fall break for an immersive experience studying the artist's work and life.
Max Valsamas, 2020 PhD in Art History and Archaeology, has been appointed Curatorial Assistant - European Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
Dr. Kate Harnish (PhD 2019) was appointed as Curatorial Assistant at the Pulitzer Foundation of Arts, St. Louis, in May 2019.
After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Capidomonte in Naples, Italy, Dr. James Anno (Ph.d. 2017) became the Associate Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in September, 2019.
Doctoral students Kirsten Marples and Allison Perelman both delivered public gallery talks at the Saint Louis Art Museum this past month, in conjunction with the exhibition "Paul Gauguin : The Art of Invention."
Dr. Ila Sheren will be giving a talk, "Human, Nonhuman, Both or Neither? Bear 71 as Border Crosser" at the New Media Caucus Symposium at the University of Michigan on September 20
Dr. Ila Sheren will give the talk "Border Art for a Border Ecology" at the Liquid Borders/Fronteras Liquidas Conference hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature
PhD student Lacy Murphy acted as liaison between the Visual Resource Center, Disability Resources, and the Teaching Center to research the state of accessibility in higher education.
Hannah Wier (MA) interned at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2019.