2022–23 UMD ARTH Annual Newsletter

WRITTEN BY JORDANA MOORE SAGGESE

In the eight years since the Department of Art History and Archaeology published its last annual newsletter, we have witnessed several seismic events We have seen a new normal unfold after the multiple crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and an increase in catastrophic climate events on a global scale. We have endured two, divisive presidential elections in both 2016 and 2020, an insurrection in the U.S. Capitol Building in 2021, and the inauguration of the first woman of color as the Vice President of the United States. While we have certainly been challenged in these last few years, we have also emerged with an entirely new understanding of ourselves and our communities As you will see from this year ’ s newsletter, this has included a renewed focus for our department on Diversity, Equity, and Justice (see page 17); a commitment to teaching beyond the traditional confines of the physical classroom; and a focus on sustaining a supportive community for our faculty, students, and staff.

On a departmental level, we find ourselves in the midst of a significant generational shift within our faculty body We have welcomed new faculty (Dr Emily Egan, Dr Tess Korobkin, Dr Elizabeth Honig, and myself), promoted others (Dr Maryl Gensheimer to Associate Professor with tenure, Dr Joshua Shannon, Dr Alicia Volk, and myself to Full Professor) and supported the applications of four others (Dr Renée Ater, Dr Meredith J. Gill, Dr. Steven Mansbach and Dr. June Hargrove) to Emeritus status. Please see page 18 for more faculty news.

This has truly been a time of transformation, and the faculty surely have been busy In the last three years this has included a revision of our undergraduate level learning outcomes, a formal assessment of our undergraduate and graduate curricula, a new procedure for the peer evaluation of teaching, and three full-day retreats on antiracism and implicit bias. This academic year we also conducted a search for a new Full Professor and Chair, who will join us in July 2023

From the Chair

This academic year I have been focused on creating more transparent processes for the general administration of our Department, offering more opportunities for active learning for our students, and supporting our graduate students and junior faculty I hope that you enjoy reading about the many exhibitions and off-campus activities we have been able to offer our students this year (see page 13), including the graduate research travel made possible by the generous support of donors (see pages 8–10).

The graduate program has long been a dedicated area of strength of this Department and we have worked to maintain our rigor and excellence in graduate training, while also recognizing the realities of inflation and a contracting job market We have thus built a new pedagogy course into our graduate curriculum in addition to other professional training workshops on grant writing and the job market. Starting in Fall 2023 we are also offering all incoming MA/PhD combined students five total years of funding. And we are happy to report that our stellar record in both undergraduate and placements continues with 98% of all undergraduate students and graduate students landing a job after graduation

I want to thank the students, the faculty, and the staff for their dedication to our disciplines and to the success of our Department We all benefit from their hard work, collaboration, and patience, and I have been honored to represent them as Interim Chair.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Faculty Listed by Fields

EARLY MODERN ART

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY A

ADJUNCT

Associate Professor Maryl B Gensheimer

FACULTY 2022–23

Assistant Professor Emily Egan

Professor Anthony Colantuono Professor Elizabeth Honig

Professor Jordana Moore Saggese Professor Joshua Shannon

Associate Professor Abigail McEwen

Assistant Professor Tess Korobkin

Professor Alicia Volk Professor Jason Kuo Aneta Georgievska-Shine Greg Metcalf

Department Events

MIDDLE ATLANTIC SYMPOSIUM

The 53rd Annual Session of the Middle Atlantic Symposium, a long-standing collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, was held on Friday and Saturday, March 3rd and 4th, 2023 The symposium began on Friday evening, March 3rd, when Paul Chaat Smith, citizen of the Comanche Nation and Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, delivered this year ’ s George Levitine Lecture at the University of Maryland The title of his talk was "Weaponizing Nostalgia: Notes on the Absence and Presence of Indians in American Life " On the second day of the Symposium, Marco Polo Juárez Cruz, PhD candidate, delivered his presentation “Entering Muralist Abstraction: Reimaging the Mexican Pavilion at the Osaka World’s Fair (1970) ”

PRESSLY FORA

This year's Pressly Fora featured Dean Stephanie Shonekan's enlightening two-part talk titled "Race and the American Story: Reflections on Two Approaches to Racial Justice Work " In her engaging presentation, Dean Shonekan delved into the ways in which scholars and artists can contribute to the ongoing fight for social justice

Photos: (Left) Paul Chaat Smith's lecture on March 3rd, 2023; (Right) Marco Polo Juarez Cruz's talk on March 4th, 2023

Photos: (Left) Pressly Fora, Dean Stephanie Shonekan's talk on October 5th, 2022; (Right) and March 1st, 2023

Department Events

HONORS SYMPOSIUM SPRING 2023

On May 3rd, the Department hosted its annual honors thesis symposium, with presentations by graduating seniors Miguel Fernandez (“Mark Gonzales: The Vitruvian Man”), Alicia Perkovich (“‘We Love You for All You’ve Given Us:’ Understanding the Inescapable Commodification of the Artist in Andrea Fraser’s Official Welcome”) and David Kolb (“The Invention of Color Printing and Its Influence on the Evolution of Anatomical Art”) After graduation, Miguel will pursue his PhD in the fall at UC Santa-Cruz; Alicia also plans to pursue graduate studies in art history in the future; David recently took the MCAT, and plans on applying to medical school in the coming year Be sure to congratulate these seniors when you see them in the hallway!

Photo: (Left to right) Presenters Miguel Fernandez, David Kolb, and Alicia Perkovich, and symposium organizer Hannah Prescott

Photos: Miguel Fernandez (left), Alicia Perkovich (top), and David Kolb (bottom) during their presentation

Fellowships & Awards

ARHU CONFERENCE TRAVEL AWARD

ViannaNewmanDennis,PhDCandidate(Fall2022)

“DrawingonColor:ThePatientProcessofFedericoBarocci,”inthesession “DrawingandArtisticProcess,”SixteenthCentury:SocietyandConference, Minneapolis,MN,October29,2022.

JooHeeKim,PhDStudent(Fall2022&Spring2023)

"FantasiesofKoreanGirls:ThisIsn'tWhatItAppears,"inthesession"AsianGirls: RacialAesthetics,Affair,Fantasies,"TheCollegeArtAssociationAnnual Conference,NewYork,NY,February16,2023

"AnAlternativeModernity:RecenteringAkamatsuToshiko’sEarlyPaintings (1938–1947),”inRecenteringthePeriphery:AnInclusiveFutureofArtHistory, CaseWesternReserveUniversityandClevelandSymposium,Cleveland, Ohio,September16,2022

MelanieNguyen,PhDCandidate(Spring2023)

"PerformingToxicEcologiesintheWorkofMarenHassinger,"inthesession "FemaleEcologies,"TheCollegeArtAssociationAnnualConference,New York,NY,February17,2023

WYLIE FELLOWSHIP

Lillian Wies, PhD Candidate (AY 2023–24)

Wies was awarded a full semester-long fellowship, which will enable her to focus on her dissertation titled "In Her Image: Representing Women Artists in Modern Japan, 1900–1930."

GRADUATE SCHOOL SUMMER INTERNSHIP FELLOWSHIP

Gabrielle Robinson-Tillenburg, PhD Student (Summer 2023)

Gabrielle has been awarded the Summer Internship Fellowship, which will enable her to complete an internship at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, under the guidance of curator Marina Reyes Franco.

Fellowships & Awards

GRADUATE SCHOOL SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

JulietHuang,PhDCandidate(Summer2023)

ThefellowshipwillsupportJuliet’sresearchtriptotheNetherlandsinsummer 2023.SheplanstofocusonthefirstchapterofherPhDdissertation,which explores17th-centuryDutchfashionaccessoriesaroundthehand,specifically Dutchweddinggloves.

JooHeeKim,PhDStudent(Summer2023)

JooHeeintendstousetheFellowshiptostudyabroadrangeoftextswithafocus onpost-1960sart,performanceandphotographywhilepreparingforher doctoralexamintheFall

PHI DELTA GAMMA

Zoe Copeman, PhD Candidate (Spring 2023)

Zoe was awarded the Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship, which recognizes a student who best exemplifies interdisciplinary scholarship

TYSON SCHOLAR AT THE CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

Melanie Nguyen, PhD Candidate (Spring 2024)

Nguyen was awarded a full-time residency in Bentonville, Arkansas, allowing her to work on her dissertation, "Embodied Ecologies: Performance Art and Environmentalism, 1970–1990 "

Photos: (Left) Melanie Nguyen during her presentation at 2023 CAA; (Right) JooHee Kim (middle) during Q&A session at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Symposium

Fellowships & Awards

Chao Chi Chiu, PhD Candidate (Winter 2022)

Chao Chi traveled to India for his dissertation research on artistic exchanges between India and Japan The main goal of his trip was to locate artworks and information on itinerant Japanese artists in India that were not published in Japan; artists such as Yokoyama Taikan, Hishida Shunso, Nōsu Kosetsu, and Sugimoto Tetsurō, who are all central to his dissertation

Photo: Vianna Dennis's trip to the Musée du Louvre, Paris, where paintings by Claude Lorrain are on view

Photos: Chao Chi during the trip to India, at the entrance of Mulagandhakuti Temple (left) and in the Mulagandhakuti Temple archives

Fellowships & Awards

GRADUATE STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD

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Marco Polo Juarez Cruz (Spring 2023)

Marco Polo conducted research in São Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City in March 2023. During a 14-day journey, he visited archives, museums, and galleries in both cities, and dialogued with curators and scholars studying postwar artistic practices in Latin America during the 1960s During his time in Mexico, he also attended the Association for Latin American Art Triennial and interacted with scholars studying Latin American abstraction, such as Ana Franco, Michelle

Greet, and Rita Eder.

Photo: Exhibition catalogs of Mexico's representation at the São Paulo Biennial 1959–1967 at the Wanda Svevo Historical Archive, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2023

Supported by Helene and Michael Stein Graduate Student Endowment & An Anonymous Donor

Fellowships & Awards

GRADUATE STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD

AlyssaMarieHughes,PhDCandidate(Summer2023)

AlyssawillconductvitalresearchattheLeidenMunicipalArchivesinthe Netherlands,engagewithrenownedscholarsinherfield,andanalyzesignificant artworksinthepermanentcollectionsoftheRijksmuseuminAmsterdam

MekaylaMay,MAStudent(Summer2023)

MekaylawillcollaboratewiththeSamothraceexcavationteam,refiningher interpretativeskillsinarchaeology,deepeningherunderstandingofRoman presenceinGreekspaces,andfosteringherinterestinarchitecture NorikoOkada,PhDStudent(Summer2023)

NorikointendstovisitthehomeofNorikoYamamoto(1925-2022),anartistsheis consideringforherdissertation Sheplanstodocumentmaterialsrelatedtothe artistandherwork,includingletters,photos,andexhibitionbrochures

Supported by Helene and Michael Stein Graduate Student Endowment & An Anonymous Donor

Photos: (Left) Mekayla (left back) and the Registrars and Conservation Team of the 2022 Samothrace excavation team; (Right) Mekayla (middle back, blue sleeveless top) the 2022 Samothrace excavation team at the excavation site

Incoming Students to the Graduate Program

JUSTYCE BENNETT

Justyce Bennett (PhD) earned her B.A. in art history and anthropology from St Mary's College of Maryland, where she was awarded the Linda Nochlin Award in Art History She went on to receive her M A at the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware Bennett spent the past two years at The Heckscher Museum of Art as the Curatorial Assistant She helped organize numerous shows, including solo exhibitions on artists Richard Mayhew and Courtney Leonard. Justyce plans to study the materiality of race and gender in the Black Atlantic with Professor Korobkin

GEORGIA KERNS

After recently graduating from Towson University with her B A in art history and psychology, Georgia Kerns (MA) will study with Dr Egan in the subject areas of Classical Art & Archaeology, 15th, 16th, and 17th Century European Art, and 17th Century Italian, French, and Spanish Art.

FILIPPO GRASSI

Filippo Grassi (MA/PhD) will start an MA/PhD Program at the University of Maryland under the direction of Professor Jason Kuo to study Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. Filippo received both his BA and MA degrees in Chinese Language and Culture from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice In the past two years, Filippo has also worked as a web developer for an art gallery in Milan, He is now ready to embark on this new adventure overseas!

Incoming Students to the Graduate Program

MAGGIE MASTRANDREA

Maggie Mastrandrea (PhD) will be advancing from the department’s MA program to the PhD program this fall. She recently defended her masters thesis “Evolution and Eternity in the Landscape of Defeat: Yokoyama Taikan and Mt Fuji” and works at the Prange Collection on UMD’s campus where she co-curated the exhibition "Fuji: Mountain as Metaphor " Maggie will continue her PhD with Dr Volk, studying Modern Japanese Art

KATHERINE RABOGLIATTI

Katherine (Katie) Rabogliatti (PhD) fell in love with early modern Italy after watching a period drama when she was fifteen, and she'd been fascinated by historical women since she was in kindergarten She seamlessly joined these two interests in the last year of her undergraduate career when she discovered Sofonisba Anguissola, and she hasn't looked back since Katherine is thrilled to be joining the Art History Department at UMD where she will expand her research on Sofonisba to the artist's later career, most of which was spent between Sicily and Genoa. Under Dr. Colantuono’s supervision, she hopes to use Sofonisba as a lens through which to examine Sicilian and Genoese women, shedding light on their critically neglected lives

Photo: 2022–2023 incoming students with their "M pullover" designed by Dominic Pearson (Left to right) Caroline Kipp, Noriko Okada, Haojian Cheng, Dominic Pearson.

The Off-Campus Classroom

For the 2022-2023 academic year the Department awarded monies to enhance the learning experiences of undergraduate and graduate students. You can read about some of these activities below.

ARTH 798, PROFESSOR MCEWEN

Instructional Support Funds enabled PhD students Marco Polo Juárez Cruz and Gabrielle Robinson-Tillenburg to travel to New York on April 13–15, where they were joined by fellow PhD student Alyson Cluck. They saw exhibitions of Latin American and Latinx art and connected with friends and colleagues in the field. Among the highlights of our trip were a visit to the Agustín Fernández Foundation, a tour of "no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria" at the Whitney with curator Marcela Guerrero, and a stop at the Guggenheim to see "Gego: Measuring Infinity " They also enjoyed catching up with Susanna Temkin, curator at El Museo del Barrio, and Isabella Hutchinson, who walked them through "Priscilla Monge: The Archived Body" at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary Additional stops included Tsunami at Leon Tovar; "Gerd Leufert: Imaginary Spaces" at Henrique Faria; "Ida Y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo" at Hunter East Harlem Gallery; "Feliciano Centurión: telas y textos" at ISLAA; and "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" at the New Museum

These collections and exhibitions showcased art directly related to dissertation projects, and the trip allowed them to see and discuss key works together and in person Marco Polo and Gabrielle described the trip as “amazing and engaging” and “rewarding and insightful,” noting that much of the art “foreground[ed] the work of women artists ” In sum, this was “ an incredible professional development opportunity” that “will bring many new o

Photos: Trip to New York. (Left) (Left to right) Gabi Robinson-Tillenburg, Aly Cluck, and Marco Polo Juárez Cruz at the Guggenheim Museum; (Top) Marco Polo, Gabi, Sebastian Fernandez, and Aly at the Agustín Fernandez Foundation; (Bottom) Marco Polo, Aly, Gabi, and Marcela Guerrero at the Whitney

The Off-Campus Classroom

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

Supported by the Department's New Instructional Support Funds

The support for ARTH488A: Contemporary Art in Local Collections allowed students in the class to visit the National Gallery of Art (twice), The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (twice), and Glenstone Students viewed and did classwork related to the following exhibitions:

"Sam Gilliam: Full Circle" (Hirshhorn)

"Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection" (Hirshhorn)

"The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900" (National Gallery)

"American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams" (National Gallery)

Permanent Collection (National Gallery)

Permanent Collection (Glenstone)

It was indispensable that students had the opportunity to study these exhibitions in person, and perhaps no coincidence that all three students participating in the Department’s Undergraduate Symposium this spring presented works based on essays they wrote in this course!

ARTH 488A, PROFESSOR SHANNON

Photo: Professor Shannon with undergraduate students at Glenstone in Potomac, MD, in October 2022

The Off-Campus Classroom

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

Supported by the Department's New Instructional Support Funds

ARTH 262, PROFESSOR MCEWEN

Instructional Support Funds allowed Professor McEwen's class to travel to Washington, D.C. for a walking tour of the National Mall on April 24 They began at the Thomas Jefferson memorial and made stops at memorials dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr , Abraham Lincoln, Korean War Veterans, Vietnam War Veterans, and World War II Students described the trip as a “highlight of the semester” and enjoyed learning “outside of the classroom” and “taking advantage of UMD’s proximity to DC ” They interacted with knowledgeable Park Rangers and reflected on the nature of memorials, the significance of the National Mall, and the narratives of nation and history told by these sites.

ARTH 301, PROFESSOR EGAN

In Professor Egan's course funds were used to purchase self-drying clay that will enable students to understand firsthand the process

of writing in Bronze Age Greece

Using the clay and wooden styluses, the students produced their own writing sample in the Linear B script (used to write the oldest known form of the Greek language) By making these replicas, students will understand the practical aspects of writing in antiquity and also learn the basics of paleography by attempting to read each other’s work

Photo: Professor McEwen's class on the staircase at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Photo: Students from Dr Egan's ARTH 488K decorate the Art-Soc Courtyard with an adapted copy of the painted floor of the Throne Room of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos (ca 1200 BCE)

GRADUATE ART HISTORY ASSOCIATION (GAHA)

GAHA invited Dr Gennifer Weisenfeld of Duke University to deliver her lecture "Aviation and Japan's Aerial Imagery" for GAHA's Distinguished Lecture of 2023 Based on her latest book, Gas Mask Nation, it was a fascinating look into how aviation transformed Japanese iconography. GAHA was pleased to see so many students of ARTH and Japanese Studies in attendance In Fall 2023 GAHA will welcome its next speaker: Jessica Brown, the Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art!

UNDERGRADUATE ART HISTORY ASSOCIATION (AHA)

AHA hosted a fundraiser event, "Paint Night," in April 2023. All supplies and materials were included for $5, and some of the attendee artists' artworks are presented in the image.

Another event hosted by AHA was "Abstract writing Workshop with Zoe Copeman." In March 2023, GAHA President, Zoe, organized and facilitated the workshop on mastering writing abstracts.

Photo: Professor Weisenfeld during her talk in February

Photo: GAHA's monthly meeting in May 2023 (Left to right): Zoe Copeman, Holly Miller, Christine Quach, Marco Polo Juárez Cruz, Noriko Okada, Ashley Cope, Mekayla May, and JooHee Kim

EQUITY IN ART HISTORY (E-ARTH)

E-ARTH (Equity in Art History & Archaeology) entered Fall 2022 with the goal of restoration and healing after the successful creation of our departmental Statement of Commitment in Spring 2022 The goal this year was to emphasize the importance of relationships and upholding the dignity and worth of the individuals within our community while moving towards the ARTH department’s shared goal of building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive community. To realize E-ARTH’s mission to increase our presence in the ARTH department, they implemented informal graduate discussions, undergraduate de-stress events, forums to discuss undergraduate and graduate student concerns, and trainings for all members of our department This year E-ARTH also partnered with BISS and the TLTC on campus to provide trainings focused on addressing implicit bias and reporting microaggressions at the university, how to design a class with compassion and care at its center, as well as how to field difficult dialogues in the classroom. These trainings were chosen based on concerns made apparent in our Spring 2022 Climate Survey. As E-ARTH, we stand for all members of this department, recognizing that all members require frequent trainings to ensure that we are moving towards a more equitable, accessible, and non-discriminatory environment for our students, staff, faculty, and peers In addition, E-ARTH made progress consolidating departmental resources and making all DEI work transparent with an update to our department's university webpage (see our DEI webpage and Statement of Commitment here)

There is still work to be done. Contact E-ARTH via the webpage to lend your support.

Photos: Students enjoying a mid-semester study break at the E-ARTH event, participating in a de-stress event by coloring with adorable puppies named Bentley and Posey

NEW FACULTY BOOKS

FACULTY AWARDS

EMILY EGAN

Experiential Learning Grant, Teaching & Learning Transformation Center (TLTC), Spring 2023

Faculty-Student Research Award, Summer 2023.

ABIGAIL MCEWEN

Experiential Learning Grant, Teaching & Learning Transformation Center (TLTC), Fall 2022

The Dedalus Foundation grant, Spring 2023

UMD Arts For All, Spring 2023

RECENT FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

ANETA GEORGIEVSKA-SHINE, DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

JORDANA MOORE SAGGESE, DIRECTOR OF THE DAVID C DRISKELL CENTER

JOSHUA SHANNON, DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES

ABIGAIL MCEWEN, FACULTY DIRECTOR OF CARILLON COMMUNITIES

Jason Kuo, Modern Ink: The Art of Huang Binhong, published in 2023

Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, published in 2022

Joshua Shannon et al., Humans, published in 2022

ANTHONY COLANTUONO PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN ITALIAN, FRENCH AND SPANISH ART

Anthony Colantuono contributed to the exhibition "L’immagine sovranaUrbano VIII e i Barberini," which opened on March 18, 2023 at Palazzo Barberini in Rome (Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica). The exhibition celebrates the 400th anniversary of the election of Pope Urban VIII Barberini, who reigned from 1623 to 1644 and who, along with his nephew Cardinal Francesco Barberini, emerged as one of the greatest patrons in seventeenth-century Italian art Colantuono was responsible for the catalogue essay "Arte e diplomazia nel pontificato di Urbano VIII Barberini" and relevant catalogue entries for a room devoted to the Urban VIII’s innovative use of images in their diplomatic practice during the Thirty Years War

EMILY EGAN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Following a long-awaited return to Greece, Emily Egan devoted the lion’s share of this year to work on her monograph on the enigmatic painted floors from the Bronze Age Palace of Nestor at Pylos. In the fall, she offered the year's first Mycenaean Seminar ("Pattern Games: Playing with Ornament in Pylian Painting") hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies in London, followed by lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society of Northern Virginia, the New York Bronze Age Colloquium, and the Charleston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. In her “down time” Dr. Egan traveled to Providence, RI, where she joined colleagues to celebrate the legacy of Brown University Professor Martha Sharp Joukowsky (catching up with ARTH Professor Emerita Renée Ater along the way!), and designed a new (spring 2023) undergraduate colloquium on the Ancient Copy, for which she received a generous Experiential Learning grant from UMD's Teaching & Learning Transformation Center (TLTC) The grant allowed her to purchase equipment to train students in photogrammetry (under the expert direction of chief ARTH Collaborators, Quint and Chris), and to execute a studentdesigned monumental artwork in the ArtSoc courtyard. This summer, Dr. Egan will continue her research program in Greece with the aid of a UMD Faculty-Student Research Award that will allow ARTH graduate student Holly Miller to assist her in the documentation and reconstruction of the Pylos wall paintings

Photo: (Left to right) Professor Egan, her daughter Minna, and Professor Emerita Ater

MARYL B. GENSHEIMER ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ROMAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Associate Professor Maryl B. Gensheimer’ s current book project focuses on Roman gardens, demonstrating that their locations, social and physical relationships to neighboring spaces, architectural design, and decoration in all media offer complex insights into both Roman sociopolitical networks and the selfaggrandizing strategies of the Roman elite, who exploited landscape in evocative and powerful ways Other current projects concern the Pantheon and Column of Trajan in Rome, as well as the Roman villas buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius along the Bay of Naples Dr Gensheimer’s work not only offers new interpretations of some of the major monuments of the Roman world, but also draws inspiration from, and contributes to, a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary study of the ancient Mediterranean. Dr. Gensheimer has lectured across the country this year, from California to New York, and has been a reviewer for several journals and academic presses Gensheimer chairs the Women in Archaeology interest group and Graduate Student Paper Award Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Faculty News

ELIZABETH HONIG PROFESSOR OF NORTHERN EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE ART

In the past year Elizabeth Honig has discovered the joys of co-writing articles She completed one article on economics and Dutch art history co-written with UMD grad student Tony Cui and also Jessica Stewart, a long-ago student. Currently she is working on an article about visualizing provenance data with UMD grad students Christine Quach and Haojian Cheng She wrote an article herself about the imagery of Saint Peter freed from prison, which turned out to involve more Biblical scholarship than she’d bargained for Taking a break from research for a book on prisons (it was too depressing), she got a contract from Reaktion Books for another book about Nicholas Hilliard and small things in the Renaissance It will (she hopes) cover miniature portraits, watches, jewelry, playing cards, coins, and purses It will involve a very steep learning curve! Reaktion published her book on Pieter Bruegel in a paperback edition without telling her, which was a big thrill when she spotted it in a bookstore. Professor Honig has also been interviewed for several podcasts on Pieter Bruegel, including one by Reaktion/The Warburg Institute and another by Not Just the Tudors But she missed her first postCOVID conference in Amsterdam due to… COVID.

TESS KOROBKIN

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN ART

Faculty News

JASON KUO PROFESSOR OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES, CHINESE ART

Dr Tess Korobkin is delighted that her article “Monumental Absence: Augusta Savage’s Unbuilt Monuments, 1931–1943” will be published in the fall 2023 issue of American Art, revealing that this wellknown Harlem Renaissance sculptor intended to build monuments and reckoning with their absence from our shared memorial landscape Dr Korobkin was honored to deliver the Olszewski Lecture in Art History at Case Western Reserve University and to bring her research to a wider audience as a guest on the Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast. In the classroom, Dr Korobkin relished exploring why societies create, destroy, change and remove monuments with students in her I-series class “Monuments, Monumentality, and the Art of Memorial ” Highlights of the course included guest visits from artist Nekisha Durrett and UMD ARTH alum Adrián Hernandez.

Professor Jason Kuo organized an international symposium Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting: Histories, Borders, and Values in 2022 (supported by the Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Maryland and the Mozhai Foundation in Berkeley, CA). The speakers considered the historical, theoretical, cultural, social, and political dimensions of modern and contemporary Chinese ink painting and asked: How have indigenous and foreign traditions impacted modern and contemporary Chinese artists? What are the multiple contexts in which their artworks have been created and circulated? The symposium took stock of the present state of Chinese ink painting and reconsidered the multiplicities of contexts, histories, boundaries, and values that have combined to shape its current expression

The 2022 symposium was a sequel to the 2021 international symposium he coorganized (with the support of the University of New South Wales and the Asia Society in Sydney, Australia) on Rethinking the Curation of Chinese Contemporary Art: “Post-West” Artworlds, Political Economies, Spatial Practices, and Historiographies; his co-edited book is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. The University of Hawaii Press published his co-authored book Modern Ink: The Art of Huang Binhong His monograph The Chinese Artist Grows Old: Aging and Creativity is in press He also reviewed book and article manuscripts for the Cornell University Press and the journal Dada/Surrealism for a special issue on global Surrealism

Photo: Professor Korobkin delivering her talk "Skywatchers: Marion Perkins's Memorial to Hiroshima" at CAA 2023 in February 2023.

Photo: Students in Professor Korobkin's undergraduate colloquium "Visual Culture of Resistance and Reform "

ABIGAIL MCEWEN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LATIN AMERICAN ART

Faculty News

JORDANA MOORE SAGGESE PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN ART

In 2022-23 Professor Jordana Moore

Abigail McEwen continues to split her time between the Department and Carillon Communities, a living-learning program for first-year students that she directs With colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and Temple University, she received a multiyear grant from the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art to convene advanced graduate students in the field They gathered in September in Pittsburgh around the opening of the Carnegie International A TLTC grant supported her Art & Activism course (Fall 2022) A Faculty-Student Research Award from the Graduate School facilitated the student-curated exhibition, "Re-Cast: Sculptural Works from the Art Museum of the Americas," which opened in September at the Art Gallery on campus She received grants from the Dedalus Foundation and from UMD’s Arts For All initiative to support a temporary public art commission, overseen by undergraduate students in her Public Art course (Spring 2023), that will debut at The Clarice’s NextNOW Fest 2023.

Saggese welcomed two new graduate students, Dominic Pearson and Caroline Kipp, into the program and started the fall semester teaching a graduate seminar entitled “Blackness in Relief.” The nine students enrolled learned and interrogated a history of African American printmaking, while also organizing an exhibition on this theme for the David C Driskell Center (see page 27) While serving as Interim Chair, Professor Saggese also managed to write an essay for a major exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (“Basquiat × Warhol. Painting four hands”) and submit the final revised manuscript for her third book Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation, which will be published by Duke University Press In July 2023 she will transition into the role of Director of the David C Driskell Center at UMD, creating an important link between the Center and ARTH.

Photo: Professor McEwen (second right) in a group photo at the ISLAA Forum in Pittsburgh in 2022

Photo: Professor Saggese with (left to right) Dean Shonekan, Maura, Cléa, Ashley, JooHee, Dominic, and Montia in a group photo at the exhibition opening at the Driskell Center in January 2023

JOSHUA SHANNON PROFESSOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY & THEORY

In 2022-23, Joshua Shannon started work on his new book project, How and What to Look at Art in the Time of Climate Change: Seven Lessons from Modern Art. He also enjoyed a short residency as Visiting Professor of Modern Art at the University of Hong Kong in December, and serving as a senior scholar at the Getty/Terra symposium

“Linking Art Wolds: American Art and Eastern Europe from the Cold War to the Present” in Berlin in April He taught courses on contemporary art in local museums and on modern art and climate, while advising four dissertations In February, he took up the role of Director of Graduate Studies in the department

Faculty News

ALICIA VOLK PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE ART

Dr Alicia Volk is happy and relieved to be tying up the final details of her book In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan, which is forthcoming from the University of Chicago She contributed a chapter titled “Art and Activism, circa 1950: Three Artworks, Two Exhibitions, and the Early Cold War Peace Movement” to the volume Japan in the 1950s: Kaleidoscope of Cold War Modernity and delivered several lectures on the topic A highlight of the year was her graduate seminar “No More Hiroshimas! Art in Occupied Japan,” especially the field trip to see the Enola Gay Most exciting is a long-awaited research trip to Japan as a Japan Foundation/Ishibashi Foundation Fellow this summer!

Photo: Professor Volk led (left to right) Motoko Shimizu-Lezec, students Noriko Okada and Maggie Mastandrea, along with colleagues Dr Michele Mason, Dr Yui Suzuki, on a field trip to view the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.

Photo: Anne Reeve, Associate Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, speaks with students in Professor Shannon's "Contemporary Art in Local Collections" course about her exhibition "Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection" in November 2022.

Faculty News

ANETA GEORGIEVSKA-SHINE

SENIOR LECTURER OF RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE ART, THEORY

Aneta Georgievska-Shine continues to teach courses in Italian and North European art of the renaissance and the baroque periods. In addition, she is teaching a course on cultural exchanges in the Byzantine empire, as well as an undergraduate seminar for the Honors Humanities program on early modern art and medicine

Her new book Vermeer and the Art of Love was included on Christie’s list of ten best books to look forward to in 2022. In April of last year, she presented at a Harvard University Conference on Titian’s late mythological paintings The conference proceedings are forthcoming in a special issue of the I Tatti Studies of the Italian Renaissance

She also engaged in curatorial work with contemporary artists such as Margot Neuhaus (an online exhibition for the Art Museum of the Americas) and Micheline Klagsbrun (Studio Gallery) She is currently developing a group exhibition that explores the ways in which different artists have responded to their shared experience as children of Holocaust survivors

Her recent presentations beyond the academic environment include a lecture on Artemisia Gentileschi at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin (April 2023) organized in conjunction with a world premiere of the play Artemisia by Lauren Gunderson (Forward Theater, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison)

In the Spring of 2023, Greg Metcalf led a course called "Film as Art; Film Gazes and Points of View " The class focused on examining how films construct a Point of View (POV) through various elements of form and narrative, including the camera's placement and the script's authorship Throughout the course, students discussed Laura Mulvey's original gaze theory from the 1970s and evaluated whether it still applies to films produced in recent years They explored different types of narrative perspectives, including subjective and unreliable ones, as well as how films can make us identify with unexpected characters, define normality, and change the meaning of a story by altering the POV The class also examined how a story can transform over time, between cultures, or when directed by different individuals

GREG METCALF LECTURER OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART, FILM

Photo: Dr Georgievska-Shine at her talk at the Chazen Museum in April 2023

Undergraduate Student News

A LOOK AHEAD: Graduating Majors and Minors Share Their Plans and Reflections

ALICIA PERKOVICH

Alicia Perkovich is a graduating student finishing her dual B.A. degree in Art History and History, where she specializes in contemporary American art and transitional justice, respectively. This year, Alicia completed her undergraduate honors thesis, “‘We Love You For All You’ve Given Us:’ Understanding the Inescapable Commodification of the Artist in Andrea Fraser’s Official Welcome,” under the advising of Professor Shannon. Alicia spent this year interning at the David C. Driskell Center, where she curated a tribute for Sam Gilliam as part of the Center’s Fall exhibitions She is also a member of the Contemporary Art Purchasing Program

DAVID KOLB

David Kolb is a senior Art History and Biology dual degree student focusing on the intersection of art and medicine with his studies in the department For his senior thesis in art history, David discussed the evolution of anatomical art and the significance of color printing techniques. One of his favorite classes was Professor Honig's class on Rubens! He currently works in a biology research lab and will soon publish a paper on animal behavior He also earned his citation for being a member of the Integrated Life Sciences program within the Honors college David plans to attend medical school and hopes to continue in his passion for blending humanities and science.

The Art History department made Katherine (Katie) Harris's time at the University of Maryland so much brighter Katie has learned how to think in ways she could not have imagined and how to see the beauty in everything and everyone. With these skills, She is going to further her journey as an artist and begin on her path to becoming a nurse. Katie will continue her search for amazing sites! Katie is beyond thankful to everyone who's had her back these past four years and is excited to see what the future holds

Photo: Alicia Perkovich in front of the Sam Gilliam tribute she curated at the Driskell Center

KATHERINE HARRIS

Undergraduate Student News

A LOOK AHEAD: Graduating Majors and Minors Share Their Plans and Reflections

MIGUEL FERNANDEZ

Miguel Fernandez is graduating this semester with a B.A. in Art History. His first semester at the University of Maryland, he learned from Professor Mansbach, whose passionate lectures have changed the way Miguel sees art For his Honors research on Mark Gonzales, Miguel worked under the mentorship of Professor McEwen, which he is beyond grateful. During his two years at UMD, he had been awarded a Sandler Award grant, Honors Research grant, and the Judith K Reed Commencement Award This Fall, he will be entering the Visual Studies PhD program at the University of California, Santa Cruz where Miguel will be studying with Dr Jennifer González.

KATE MULLANEY

During her time at the University of Maryland, Kate Mullaney has had many incredible experiences and have met great people Kate has enjoyed being a part of organizations such as the Maryland Filmmakers Club, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, working at the University of Maryland's Welcome Desk, and being a tour guide. Her favorite experience during college was studying abroad in Florence, Italy. Her study abroad experience inspired Kate to attend graduate school in London for Art History, Curatorship, and Renaissance Culture Kate is sad that she has to leave Maryland, but she is excited for the future that is waiting for her.

Photo: Kate Mullaney during her study abroad in Florence, Italy.

Photo: Miguel Fernandez's self portrait

CURATING THE FUTURE Graduate Student News

DAVID C. DRISKELL CENTER (CLÉA MASSIANI)

Cléa Massiani has been working this year as graduate assistant at the David C Driskell Center Assisting with collection management, fundraising, event planning, and curatorial strategies Cléa is one of the co-curators of this year's Driskell Center exhibit titled "RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix," which opened in January 2023 The show, a collaboration between 9 graduate students, Professor Saggese and the Center aims to promote the print works of two major Black women artists: Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar For Cléa, conceptualizing a groundbreaking exhibition was the most exciting part of the journey.

UMD GALLERY (MELANIE NGUYEN)

As a graduate assistant in the University of Maryland Art Gallery, Melanie Nguyen launched a new initiative called Video in The Atrium (ViTA) that allows the Art Gallery to present the work of pioneering video artists outside of the gallery in a public-facing area of the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building’s atrium. For its inaugural iteration, she curated a presentation of Spanish video and performance artist Cristina Lucas’s piece The People That Is Missing (2019), with an accompanying catalogue published on the Art Gallery’s website In spring 2023, she cocurated the recurring exhibition "Here and Now: Recent Acquisitions" with Director Taras Matla. "Here and Now" presented recent additions to the Art Gallery’s permanent collection, including works by Hugo Crosthwaite, linn meyers, Wanda RaimundiOrtiz, and Jamilah Sabur

Photo: View of the public program affiliated to the exhibition, "RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix" at the Driskell Center in April 2023

Photos: (Top) View of the exhibition opening; (Bottom) Group photo of (left to right) Professor McEwen, Dominic Pearson, Professor Warfield, Dean Shonekan, Gabi Robinson-Tillenburg, Adriana Ospina (Director of the Art Museum of the Americas), Marco Polo Juárez Cruz, Cléa Massiani, Melanie Nguyen, and the Gallery Director Taras W Matla

Graduate Student News

CURATING THE FUTURE

STAMP GALLERY (MAURA CALLAHAN)

As the returning Graduate Assistant at the Stamp Gallery, Maura Callahan took up a more active curatorial role this year while continuing her responsibilities in gallery operations In the fall, she invited award-winning sculptor Hae Won Sohn to display her work in a solo exhibition titled "Unspoken Volumes." The following semester, Maura organized a group exhibition around the theme of clothing titled "UNFOLD " Both exhibitions received coverage in the Washington Post in addition to multiple Marylandaffiliated publications As part of the group exhibition, Maura also moderated a series of panel discussions with artists Hoesy Corona, Elliot Doughtie, HH Hiaasen, and Mojdeh Rezaeipour.

HORNBAKE LIBRARY (MAGGIE MASTRANDREA)

Maggie Mastrandrea worked extensively in the Prange Collection of postwar Japanese archives at Hornbake Library Her main project involved cocurating the archival exhibition "Fuji: Mountain as Metaphor" with the support of the Hornbake staff. This exhibition showcased the significance of Fuji as a symbol in modern Japanese art and visual culture, particularly during the Allied Occupation of Japan It featured notable pieces like Onchi Kōshirō's art book and a copy of Hokusai's Red Fuji Moving forward, Maggie and the Prange team plan to convert the Fuji exhibition into a digital format

OUTSIDE UMD (GABRIELLE ROBINSON-TILLENBURG)

As the Bresler Curator in Residence at VisArts in Rockville, MD, Gabrielle (Gabi)

Robinson-Tillenburg curated "Sound of Fire " This exhibition featured multimedia works that pictured the operations and impacts of the U.S. military at home and abroad, a subject closely related to her dissertation research.

Photo: Climate Poncho (2022) by Hoesy Corona in UNFOLD

Photo: Maggie Mastrandrea (left) delivering the tour of the exhibition she curated

Photo: View of the exhibition, "Sound of Fire," Gabi RobinsonTillenburg curated at VisArts in Rockville, MD

Graduate Student News

KATHLEEN JOANNA ALTIZER

This spring, Kathleen Joanna Altizer successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Nature and Power: The Game Paintings of Jan Weenix (1641–1719),” co-chaired by Dr. Colantuono and Dr. Arthur K. Wheelock, with committee members Dr. Honig, Dr. Lara Yeager-Crasselt and Professor Emeritus Jay Robert Dorfman Her dissertation addresses the Dutch artist Jan Weenix (1641–1719)’s less analyzed works, game paintings, where she argues that Weenix’s game paintings are best understood within the dramatic cultural shifts and political upheavals of William III’s stadholderate (1672–1702) She concludes, through Weenix’s art, collectors claimed the right to exercise control over nature, identifying themselves with pan-European nobility and ultimately illustrating their participation in the establishment of cultural and political hegemony over local and colonial domains.

MAURA CALLAHAN

This past fall, Maura Callahan entered her first year as a PhD student studying with Professor Shannon after defending her masters thesis

“Very Anxious People: Alice Neel’s Late Portraits” in spring 2022. This year she continued her work as the Graduate Assistant at the Stamp Gallery, where she curated a solo exhibition by New York-based sculptor Hae Won Sohn in the fall and the group show "UNFOLD" in the spring Under the leadership of Professor Saggese, Maura also collaborated with fellow graduate students in mounting the exhibition "RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix," which opened at the Driskell Center in January.

HAOJIAN CHENG

Haojian Cheng conducted research on object identification in the Collaboratory using computer vision and natural language processing His project consisted of several parts: creating a model to detect objects in various paintings, developing a model that associates the motifs with the objects identified, and generating a computer's interpretation of the image. Lastly, he connected object identification with the search for paintings by creating a search program that reads users' input of image and/or text to identify objects and/or motifs and returns artwork from the database containing similar objects and motifs He also collaborated with Professor Honig on visualizing provenance data

Photo: Hae Won Sohn, Odd eye (2021)

Graduate Student News

CHAO CHI CHIU

With the department research travel award, Chao Chi Chiu traveled to India for his dissertation research on artistic exchanges between India and Japan During the summer, Chao Chi is planning to travel to Japan for research with the Clark Center Travel grant.

ASHLEY LYNN COPE

Ashley Cope had a full and rewarding academic year! In November 2022, Ashley’s exhibition "Locally Grown: Documentary Photography of Minnesota Communities," opened at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis and received positive press Ashley developed and taught a winter course in January titled "Identities and Modernism"; the course surveyed modernist art and the changing conceptions of identities over time. In February, she presented at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia for the 27th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in the History of Art On April 28th, Ashley gave the keynote speech alongside artist Laura Migliorino at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at St Thomas University in St. Paul on April 28.

After having a productive summer of research in the UK funded by the UMD Summer Research Fellowship, Zoe Copeman successfully defended her dissertation proposal and received additional funding from the Cosmos Club Foundation to conduct research in Paris this summer. Zoe also presented original research at SECAC 2023 in November and RCC at Harvard University's fifth international conference in April. She secured two peer-reviewed publications scheduled for release in Summer/Fall Besides her academic achievements, Zoe served as the president of GAHA and cochair of the ARTH department's DEIJ committee (E-ARTH) In these roles, she advocated for increased funding for GAHA, supported AHA, and promoted the establishment of E-ARTH in the community Zoe also made teaching and scholarship resources more accessible within the department Notably, she was invited by Patapsco State Park to develop and teach new historical programs that will be presented to the public in the Fall. Finally, as the instructor of record for the ARTH201 Freshman Connection, Zoe successfully recruited four new majors/minors to the ARTH department, which is one of her proudest accomplishments

ZOE ELIZABETH COPEMAN

Photo: Ashley Cope (middle, ivory shirt) with her parents and fiancée at St. Thomas University, where she gave a keynote presentation on April 28, 2023

Graduate Student News

TONY CUI

Tony Cui is planning to defend his dissertation proposal this coming fall; in the past year, he has published an article on Comitatus and became assistant editor at Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography

VIANNA NEWMAN DENNIS

Vianna Newman Dennis is a PhD candidate studying with Professor Colantuono. In October 2022, she presented her paper "Drawing on Color: The Patient Process of Federico Barocci," about the special relationship between Barocci's drawing and painting techniques, at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in Minneapolis Vianna’s participation in the conference was funded by an ARHU Graduate Student Travel Award In November and December, research for her dissertation on the seventeenth-century landscape paintings of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain took her to Europe, with support from the Helene and Michael Stein Graduate Student Travel Award Vianna enjoyed viewing paintings in collections across France, the United Kingdom, and Denmark, delving into object files, and reconnecting with fellow PhD candidate and advisee Charline Fournier Petit. Spring 2023 finds her teaching an art history survey course at Iowa State University, and especially grateful for all of her semesters as a TA at Maryland

MALLORY NICOLE HASELBERGER

Mal Haselberger defended her master's thesis, titled "By the Book: Early Modern Women's Education and the Silent Instruction of Print Culture," in February 2023. Her research explores the influence of early modern printing on women artists' selfteaching methods, focusing on Giovanna Garzoni, Élisabeth-Sophie Chéron, and Catherine Perrot A version of her work will be published in the peer-reviewed journal Parergon in July 2023 as part of the special issue "Transnational Perspectives on Early Modern Women's Agency " Mal is actively involved in upcoming book history projects, including a co-written publication with collaborators from the Department of English, titled "Meet the Book Beetle: Teaching with a Tabletop Letterpress " The chapter will be featured in the edited volume Teaching the History of the Book, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in May 2023. Additionally, Mal serves as the secretary and programming chair of the American Printing History Association's Chesapeake Chapter and continues to work as a student assistant in Special Collections and University Archives In Fall 2023, Mal will pursue her studies in the iSchool's Master of Library and Information Science program, specializing in archives and digital curation

Graduate Student News

JULIET HUANG

Juliet Huang advanced to candidacy in May 2022, and in December she defended her PhD dissertation proposal entitled “Dressing the Speaking Hand: Fashion Accessories around the Hand in the 17th-Century Netherlands” She received the Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship to support her travel in summer 2023 in the Netherlands and Belgium where she will see some gloves, rings, and bracelets Meanwhile, she was selected to participate in the 2023 summer course "Art in the Age of Rubens" organized by the Flemish Art Collection in Antwerp. She has been taking a Dutch course at Indiana University since fall 2022. She is excited to finally put her Dutch in practice this summer. Driven by her interest in analyzing not only visual but also material aspects of fashion accessories, she started her exploration of 3-D imaging of textiles and clothing with photogrammetry and Reflectance

Transformation Imaging (RTI) in the Collaboratory Even more exciting, she will collaborate with the George Washington University Textile Museum next year to apply the techniques she learned in the Collaboratory on historical costume

ALYSSA MARIE HUGHES

Alyssa Huges has been appointed as a University of Maryland Museum Fellow in the Department of European Painting and Sculpture at The Baltimore Museum of Art starting next fall. She will be working alongside Dr Lara Yeager-Crasselt, the newly appointed Curator and Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture, in reimagining and reinstalling the BMA's collection of European art before 1800 Before her fellowship, Alyssa will travel to the Netherlands with funding from the Department's Summer Research Travel Award. Her research there is crucial for her dissertation, which focuses on the portrayal of elderly individuals in the early works of Dutch artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan Lievens during their time in Leiden

Alyssa will present her work titled "Formative Figures: Leiden's Elderly Women and Their Influence on the Art of Rembrandt and His Circle" at the Rembrandt Genre, International Colloquium at Bader College, Queen's University, Herstmonceux

Castle, East Sussex, UK this July

Graduate Student News

VALERIA IACOVELLI

As this exciting year comes to a close, Valeria Iacovelli looks forward to serving as a University of Maryland Museum Fellow in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art in D C , where, beginning in the fall, she will conduct research about the visual history of fossil fuels. Earlier this year, supported by a UMD Summer Research Fellowship, Valeria took a deep dive into the study of photography and landscape in the Anthropocene, visiting photography exhibitions and archives in D.C., New York, and Paris. Lastly, Valeria was selected by the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies to participate in an intensive 2-week faculty seminar on Holocaust photography alongside an incredible group of scholars led by Dan Magilow and Valerie Hébert The seminar enabled her to study the photo archive of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and to develop strategies to integrate this invaluable material into Valeria’s own research and teaching

MARCO POLO JUÁREZ CRUZ

Marco Polo Juárez Cruz is working on his dissertation analyzing the practice of Latin American non-geometrical abstraction in four cities of the Americas during the 1960s: Mexico City, Washington, D C , Lima, and São Paulo This year, Marco Polo published essays in The Routledge Companion to Surrealism (“The Surrealist Experience of Indigenous North America: A Second “Discovery” of the Americas”) and Arte Mural y Arte Urbano: Trayectorias Históricas y migraciones transculturales (“Una nueva mirada al pasado: El proyecto mural del Hospital de Harlem”). He co-curated the exhibition "Re-Cast: Sculptural Works from the Art Museum of the Americas," along with fellow PhD students Gabrielle and Cléa Marco Polo represented the department at the 53rd Middle Atlantic Symposium, where he showed part of his research on the exhibition of Mexican abstraction at the 1970 Osaka World Fair He also participated in the XLVI International Colloquium in History of Art, organized by the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM (Mexico City) and the I Seminário Internacional EBAURBE Refúgios, Futuros habitáveis e reinvenção das ciudades (Rio de Janeiro).

Photo: Marco Polo Juárez Cruz (front) at Gabi Robinson-Tillenburg (back)'s talk at LACS conference in May 2023

Graduate Student News

JooHee Kim began her second year by joining Smarthistory in the summer of 2022, where she has been working on updating the open online sources featured on their website. In the fall, JooHee presented her paper on “An Alternative Modernity: Recentering Akamatsu Toshiko’s Early Paintings (1938–1947)” at the Cleveland Symposium, receiving an honorable mention; and traveled to the West Coast to participate in the UCLA symposium, where she presented her paper on "The Figure in Space: Adrian Piper and the Phenomenology of Performance ” By the spring, JooHee had completed all of her coursework and presented her paper titled “Fantasies of Korean Girls: This Isn’t What It Appears” at the CAA conference. In addition, JooHee worked with her colleagues and Professor Saggese on the exhibition "RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix" as part of the Fall 2022 course, "Blackness in Relief."

CAROLINE STANDLEY KIPP

Caroline Kipp is completing her first year in the department. She has greatly enjoyed both the courses and getting to know the kind and generous people at UMD During the past year, Kipp has contributed research and curatorial efforts towards the Driskell Center’s exhibition, "RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix " Her last exhibition as Curator of Contemporary Art at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum opened in February 2023 "Anne Lindberg: what color is divine light?" will be on view at the museum through the end of 2023. She has also published essays and reviews in Anne Lindberg, Annet

Couwenberg: Sewing Circles, Acclaim!: Work by Award-Winning International Artists, and The Journal of Modern Craft She continues to serve on the boards of the Textile Society of America and the James Renwick Alliance for Craft

JOOHEE KIM

Photos: JooHee Kim at her presentation in UCLA symposium at Hammer Museum in October 2022 (left) JooHee Kim at her work at the ARTH office in the Spring of 2023 (right)

Graduate Student News

CLÉA MARIE ALIX MASSIANI LAURENT

Cléa Massiani, a second-year PhD student in Contemporary Art focusing on Outsider Art and Disability Studies, has been actively involved in various exhibitions this year As part of the "Re-Cast: Sculptural Works from the Art Museum of the Americas" exhibition at the Art Gallery, Cléa curated artworks with accessibility in mind, contributing to a show that explored the Art Museum of the Americas' permanent collection The exhibition received recognition, being reviewed in the Washington Post in November 2022 Additionally, Cléa played a role in the "RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix" exhibition at the Driskell Center, where they serve as a graduate assistant This collaborative show brought together the print works of artists Betye Saar and Faith Ringgold for the first time, under the direction of Professor Saggese. In a personal venture, Cléa opened the "Pyramid Scheme" exhibition at Bass and Reiner gallery in San Francisco The show's concept revolves around inviting artists who, in turn, invite others until the space is fully packed Notably, 2023 marks a significant milestone for Cléa as they have obtained a Green Card after nearly 11 years in the US

MAGDALENA FRANCES MASTRANDREA

Magdalena (Maggie) Mastrandrea spent this academic year researching and writing her masters thesis “Evolution and Eternity in the Landscape of Defeat” and working in the Prange Collection of postwar Japanese archives in Hornbake Library At the Prange, Maggie processed unorganized materials and co-curated "Fuji: Mountain as Metaphor " This exhibition directly corresponds with her thesis research on Yokoyama Taikan’s post war paintings of Mt. Fuji. She defended her masters thesis in April and will be beginning her PhD coursework in the fall.

Photo: Maggie Mastrandrea at her work at the Prange Collection

Graduate Student News

MEKAYLA MAY

Mekayla May completed her Master's thesis titled "Swinging, Stillness, and SelfReflection: An Experiential Approach to Campanian Oscilla" this academic year The thesis focused on the study of oscilla, double-sided suspended decorative objects found in Roman domestic peristyles and atria during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. This research deepened Mekayla's interest in Roman domestic spaces, their decoration, and phenomenological studies In the upcoming academic year, she plans to develop experimental archaeology projects related to oscilla and their suspended placement

Furthermore, Mekayla established a collaborative project with the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Project (RAS), led by Dr. Williams in the Architecture department. They are working on a semi-public database that compiles archaeological and architectural methods and data for use by other scholars Mekayla will assist in the initial stages of the database during the summer Additionally, she will continue the previous work of Dr Gensheimer and Amanda Chen on the wall-paintings at Stabiae, aiming to develop a research question that can lead to a publishable article co-authored with Dr. Williams.

HOLLY MARIE MILLER

Holly Miller began this year after spending six weeks in Greece with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens Between seminars at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and here at UMD, the fall semester flew by She published her first paper in the Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Volume 37 2, "Aesthetics, Sensory Skills and Archaeology" (November 2022). This publication is the culmination of her Master's thesis research (May 2020) of which she is very pleased to finally be able to share She also had the opportunity to present a short, lightning round paper at the Archaeological Institute of America's annual meeting (January 2023) This summer, Holly will be returning to Greece to assist Dr. Egan as part of the Pylos Painting Project.

Photo: Holly Miller in front of the Knossos Palace in the summer of 2022

Graduate Student News

MELANIE NGUYEN

Melanie Woody Nguyen, a PhD candidate specializing in contemporary American art, focused on her dissertation titled "Embodied Ecologies: Performance Art and Environmentalism, 1970–1990" during the 2022–2023 academic year Her groundbreaking research examines the use of performance by artists addressing environmental issues, with a particular emphasis on the contributions of women and artists of color to postwar environmental art. Melanie presented aspects of her research at prestigious conferences, including the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment's "Watersheds" Symposium, the Association of Historians of American Art's Biennial Symposium, and the College Art Association's Annual Conference in New York She also received departmental travel funds to explore the archives and office space of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the official artist-inresidence of the New York City Department of Sanitation. In addition to her academic pursuits, Melanie served as a registrar and curatorial assistant at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, where she curated the inaugural Video in The Atrium (ViTA) series

NORIKO OKADA

Noriko Okada is very happy to be a part of the PhD program of this warm community. She has been working hard to finish her second semester. As a graduate assistant at the Collaboratory, she has worked on the supplemental website for Professor Volk’s undergraduate Japanese art history course for Fall 2023 Also, Noriko has assisted Professor Korobkin’s research on Marion Perkins as her Research Assistant In February–March 2023, she had an opportunity to have her first solo exhibition "Small Narratives" as an artist at the Flecker Gallery on Long Island, NY The catalog has not been printed yet, but it is surely coming soon!

Photo (left): Melanie Nguyen at the opening reception of "Here and Now" on February 8, 2023 Photo (right): Melanie Nguyen during the installation of "Here and Now "

Graduate Student News

PATRICIA ORTEGA-MIRANDA

Patricia Ortega-Miranda has been busy teaching and working on her dissertation as well as on small projects such as: curating an exhibition, "Karen Rifas: To Weave a Threshold," at Emerson Dorsch gallery in Miami in September, contributing all the texts for an exhibition, "Emerging Voices: Diversity and Inclusion" in the IDB Art Collection, organized by the IDB Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. Starting from this academic year, Patricia became a part-time lecturer at the Catholic University where she teaches "Contemporary Art and Theory" class through the lens of transnationalism, foregrounding the global artistic and intellectual networks that emerged during the second half of the twentieth century

DOMINIC M. PEARSON

As a gallery assistant, Dominic M (DM) Pearson is pleased that the Art Gallery recently launched a new series called Video in the Atrium (VITA), allowing us to show video art outside the walls of the gallery in a well-trafficked corridor of the ArtSociology Building on campus VITA will present "TRIPPIN THE BLACK FANTASTIC: Experimental and Surrealist Films of The African Diaspora" this fall The film series, curated by DM Pearson, will focus on contemporary African American and Diasporic artists and feature programming and monthly launch events in the atrium of the Art Sociology building Stay tuned for the list of participating artists!

CHARLINE FOURNIER PETIT

Charline Fournier Petit, writing her dissertation supervised by Professor Colantuono, which is dedicated to the preparatory models made by the neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova leads her to Florence Charline accessed privately-owned archives related to two important Canovian sculptural models While in Florence, she has been granted access to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence-Max-PlanckInstitute where she has been able to study important books and journals related to her dissertation topic Since October 2022, Charline is also teaching a class on Medieval and Renaissance European sculpture at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris where she has been able to use the skills and experiences she gained while TAing at UMD.

Photo: (Left to right) Cléa Massiani, Dominic Pearson, and JooHee Kim at the exhibition "RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix" where they participated in curation.

Graduate Student News

HANNAH KAY PRESCOTT

In the fall 2022 semester, Hannah Prescott took a graduate seminar at Johns Hopkins University focused on the visual and material culture of the Dutch Americas She presented her research at a conference at Tulane University in December, and looks forward to developing her seminar paper into a publication In the spring 2023 semester, Hannah passed her comprehensive exams, and presented her paper “Standing on Solid Ground: Turkish Carpets and the Making of English Identity at the Tudor Court” at the Centers and Peripheries conference hosted by Texas Tech University This summer, she will travel to Amsterdam and Boston to attend the Summer Institute for Netherlandish Art, a curatorial program led jointly by the Rijksmuseum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

CHRISTINE TONG-HANH QUACH

In Christine Quach's first year of the PhD program after a hiatus, she experienced many firsts: facilitating a graduate seminar, teaching undergraduate students, creating a network on Cytoscape, and attending an international conference and art fair Along with these firsts, she also rediscovered some old habits like the inexplicable rush of inspiration when finishing up a paper and the meditative act of sifting through archival materials in the Netherlands over the summer Despite the challenges of the past year, Christine is relieved that no matter how long one has been away, there is always a certain level of familiarity in the work and new adventures to be had such as meeting a parrot in an Amsterdam tea shop who may or may not have once lived in a bar at the train station

Photo: Hannah Prescott with other conference attendees at Tulane University in December 2022

Photo: Christine Quach with a parrot in an Amsterdam tea shop in the summer of 2022

Graduate Student News

GABRIELLE ROBINSON-TILLENBURG

Gabrielle (Gabi) Robinson-Tillenburg’ s academic year kickstarted with a trip to Puerto Rico with funds provided by the Summer Research Travel Grant. In October, she presented her paper “Intersecting Islands: Mao Ishikawa and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz Subverting the US Imperial Gaze” at Intersecting Photographies, the Photography Network Symposium Last fall, Gabi also served as the Bresler Curator in Residence at VisArts in Rockville, MD Over the winter semester, she co-taught

LACS348Z Special Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies; El Caribe Está Cabrón: Caribbean Artist Perspectives, a course she developed with PhD candidate Víctor Hernández Sang For this course, Gabi hosted a virtual talk with artist Rafael Trelles and took students on a trip to NYC to view the Whitney exhibition "no existe un mundo poshuracán" and observe a Puerto Rican dance class This summer, Gabi looks forward to interning for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Puerto Rico under curator Marina Reyes Franco with support from the Graduate School's Summer Internship Fellowship.

CECILIA WICHMANN

As Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cecilia

Wichmann most recently curated the exhibition "Elle Pérez: Devotions, On Certainty: Gifts from the Collection of Suzanne F Cohen," and "Tschabalala Self: By My Self " She is currently working on the upcoming projects engaging the work of Fred Wilson and Joyce J. Scott.

Photo: Gabi Robinson-Tillenburg (second right) with other conference attendees including

Marco Polo Juárez Cruz (right) at LACS conference where she gave a presentation in May 2023

Graduate Student News

LILLIAN THOMAS WIES

Lillian (Lily) Thomas Wies is currently writing her dissertation, which investigates the status of modern Japanese women painters and the strategies they used to negotiate oppressive gender structures and push for greater personal and artistic freedom With the support of a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Doctoral Fellowship, Lily spent the fall in Japan, conducting archival research in Tokyo and visiting museums in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka, and Nagasaki. She presented portions of her dissertation research at the Asian Studies Conference, Japan and at an invited lecture at Sophia University. This spring, as a University of Maryland Museum Fellow, Lily has been working at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, preparing an upcoming sōsaku hanga exhibition on the Ichimoku-kai Japanese print collective To expand the exhibition’s gender representation, she is also developing a web-based showcase for Japanese women printmakers Lily was awarded the Ann G Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for the fall and plans to graduate next year.

NAN ZHONG

Nan Zhong successfully passed the doctoral Comprehensive Exam, focusing on the history of Chinese archaeology and its connection to early 20thcentury Chinese nationalism and its influence on modern Chinese art Nan's committee, led by Professor Kuo, included Professor Egan, who provided insights into the impact of archaeology on European nationalism and the formation of modern nation states, and Professor Minglang Zhou, who aided Nan in studying traditional Chinese archaeology (jin shi xue

⾦⽯學 ‘the study of gold and stone’). In spring, Nan presented his dissertation proposal on how early 20thcentury geopolitics in China influenced the modernization of Chinese calligraphy The dissertation will highlight important political figures and calligraphers, including Yu Youren 于右任, Wu Changshi 吳昌碩, Mao Zedong ⽑澤東 and Huang Yao ⿈ 堯. Nan also researched Huang Yao's Character Paintings from the 1970s to 1980s under the guidance of Professor Kuo in the class "Border Crossing, Chineseness, Diaspora, Exile: Chinese Diaspora Artists in the 20th Century," with the aim of incorporating it as a chapter in the dissertation

Photo: Nan Zhong with his advisor, Professor Kuo, during his class in Spring.

Collaboratory News

Having operated on a limited basis during the pandemic academic year (2020–21) for a reduced cadre of undergraduate interns and graduate students, the Collaboratory emerged from restrictions as a place of considerable industry and creative intellectual expression

In academic year 2021–22, building on a foundation laid by pandemic-era interns, undergraduate interns and an undergraduate completing an independent study with us built detailed 3-D models from photographs (a process known as photogrammetry) of one dozen terracotta objects from Calabar, Nigeria that form an important part of the Department’s Study Collection Excavated in the Cross River Region of Calabar in the 1990s by departmental faculty member Dr Ekpo Eyo and his graduate students, these works, on long-term loan from the National Museum of Calabar, allowed several interns and graduate students an opportunity to learn about the process of

Photo: Graduate students working at the Collaboratory (Left to right) Marco Polo Juárez Cruz and Zoe Copeman

Photo: Quint during his presentation at Collaboratory

Collaboratory News

GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE COLLABORATORY

Graduate students working in the Collaboratory during these years have developed a range of projects, both building on prior work and acquiring new skills. Good examples of the former are Amanda Chen’s overhaul of a website for ARTH 200 she developed several years ago; Nan Zhong’s development of a user-friendly hack of existing Neatline widgets into a tool that allows others to customize their sites;

Haojian Cheng’s exploration of machine learning to refine computer vision to better identify artworks’ content; and Marco Polo Juárez Cruz’s modeling of architectural spaces either long gone (the Palace of Nestor at Pylos) or never fully realized (the Mexican Pavilion at the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair). Graduate students without extensive prior digital experience also have flourished in the Collaboratory. Chao Chi Chiu and Noriko Okado learned Omeka + Neatline to develop a course resource for Professor Volk’s War, Empire, and Occupation course Zoe Copeman is using Omeka + Neatline to map the diffusion of ideas, tools, and representations of surgery in Europe throughout the Early Modern to Modern periods Having learned how to refine data and visualize it using Cytoscape, Christine Quach first created a detailed networkbased infographic for Professor Volk’s research on Japanese artists and institutions, then worked to teach these skills to undergraduates in Professor Honig’s spring class.

Juliet Huang learned both photogrammetry and RTI (Reflectance Transference Imaging) techniques to forge an innovative partnership with the George Washington Textile Museum.

WINNER OF TWO TLTC EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING COURSE-LEVEL GRANTS!

Quint and Chris were co-applicants on two successful TLTC Experiential Learning course-level grants (each awarded over $10,000), one with Emily Egan (for her spring course, Copy That!, with whom we did two weeks of hands-on sessions in April), and the other with George Hambrecht (Anthropology), for a project to create highly detailed 3-D models of zooarchaeological remains, primarily fish atlas bones, which can tell researchers about Viking foodways These grants funded the acquisition of high quality photographic equipment and software, and contributed to a year of cutting edge teaching and research

Finally, the Collaboratory proved instrumental in realizing the digital complement to this semester’s wonderful graduate-student-curated exhibition at the David C Driskell Center: "RINGGOLD | SAAR: Meeting on the Matrix"

It has been an exciting three years at the Collaboratory, with a bright future ahead, especially thanks to a $30,000 technology refresh of the Collaboratory projectors and main computer as part of the College’s Arts for All campaign!

BERNADETTE MORSE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

This past year, May 2022, Theresa Morse’ s youngest son married his sweetheart They are expecting their first baby in August 2023 grandbaby number 6! Her oldest son got married in July 2021 with only immediate family present due to the pandemic They had a one-year celebration gathering, July 2022 (photo above), but prior to that, they welcomed Benjamin on Theresa’s 40th wedding Anniversary! When not enjoying the family, she loves to travel, sew and crochet. Last fall, she enjoyed a fabulous vacation to Puerto Vallarta with members of her husband’s family. She looks forward to more traveling next year!

THERESA

Photo: Theresa Morse (middle, in blue dress) with her family at her oldest's son (in military dress blue) wedding photo from July 2021 (insight is her youngest son (far right of the photo) married the lady next to him last May

Staff News

DANA MARIE PERSAUD COORDINATOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES

Finishing her first full year in ARTH, Dana Persaud wants to note how wonderful it has been getting to know such kind, brilliant students She is continuing to work on digitizing our paper records, on the graduate student guidebook, and working alongside our Chair and Director of Graduate Studies to help clarify policies and procedures. Now Dana is looking forward to having some big website and catalog updates coming this Summer!

CHRISTIAN CLOKE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MICHELLE SMITH COLLABORATORY FOR VISUAL CULTURE

Chris Cloke had a busy year inside and outside the Collaboratory He worked with graduate assistants and undergraduate interns, who mastered photogrammetry to document the department's collection of ancient Mediterranean oil lamps. He also collaborated with a team led by Anthropology Professor George Hambrecht to create highresolution 3-D models of fish vertebrae from Icelandic archaeological sites This project was funded by a TLTC grant Additionally, Chris worked with Professor Egan's spring class, teaching them how to photograph and model ancient objects from the study collection These models are currently being 3-D printed at the Advanced Fabrication Lab He assisted graduate assistant Juliet Huang in learning Reflectance Transformation Imaging for dynamically re-lightable models, which she is using in a collaboration with the George Washington University Textile Museum Chris also taught a Classics course on Ancient Greece, focusing on various aspects of Greek culture, including inequality and slavery In late May to early June, he will return to the field, working with Jon Frey of Michigan State University and David Pettegrew of Messiah College to train students in digital archaeological methods in Isthmia, Greece He plans to develop this into a UMD study abroad course in the future During the summer, Chris will complete chapters for an edited volume on the Mazi Archaeological Project in Attica, Greece, and coauthor a piece for a conference publication

Photo: (Top) Chris Cloke (taken by his colleague Richard Rothaus), doing RTI at Isthmia (Bottom) Chris Cloke during Professor Egan's ARTH 488K decorate the Art-Soc Courtyard with an adapted copy of the painted floor of the Throne Room of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos (ca 1200 BCE)

NATALIE E. RIVERA-CANALES PROGRAM SPECIALIST

In March 2022, Natalie Rivera-Canales joined the Department as our new Academic Program Specialist She revitalized our office and got to know the staff, faculty, and graduate students. Personally, Natalie discovered her passion for event planning while organizing her cousin's Quinceañera After a year's worth of planning, the event went off beautifully and she couldn't be more relieved! She's excited to start her Master's Program at the University of Maryland, Global Campus and looks forward to academic pursuits and a trip to El Salvador with her family next year.

HENRY DUVAL GREGORY DIRECTOR, MICHELLE SMITH COLLABORATORY FOR VISUAL CULTURE

Henry (Quint) Gregory embarked on a new academic path, on which he combined a long-standing interest in, and experience with, curation and his great passion for collaborative, community-centered storytelling. He received a $10,000 ArtsAMP grant (part of the Arts for All initiative) to share with Stefan Wohlke (Historic Preservation) to develop and teach a trans-disciplinary, community-centered course, Rooting Our Shared Stories in Shared Places, wherein students this spring have worked with Quint and Stefan and members of North Brentwood on developing ways for members of this historic, and still vital, Black community to share their rich history Quint is excited about the installation of The Heart of the Table in the four cases and wall in the Atrium of the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology building. A collaborative curation effort that is the direct result of novel course Quint led in the fall for the Museum Studies and Material Culture certificate program, The Heart of the Table focuses on the remarkable story of the Dory family of Lakeland community and their multi-generational relationship with the University of Maryland

Photo: Natalie (left) at her cousin's Quinceañera that she planned and organized this spring

Photo: Quint with Collaboratry undergraduate interns (left to right) Zeynep Yilmazcoban and Rhys Burns, holding 3-D printed R2-D2s

News from Alums

ASMA NAEEM (PHD, 2011)

Asma Naeem was named the new director of the Baltimore Museum of Art on Tuesday, January 24th and began her new duties at that institution on February 1st.

A graduate of the Department, where she received her PhD in 2011, Asma taught a few classes for the Department before her first curatorial position, at the National Portrait Gallery, from 2014 to 2018. In 2018 the Baltimore Museum of Art named her the Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Chief Curator, in which capacity she curated a number of exhibitions, including "Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love," which received a great deal of praise Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition "The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century," capturing the extraordinary influence hip hop had on contemporary society

THE DOROTHY WAGNER WALLS DIRECTOR AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART

Photo (left): Asma Naeem in front of recent works on paper by Salman Toor in the exhibition Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love at BMA in October 2022 Photo (right): Asthma Naeem at BMA

Photo: View of the exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century at BMA

News from Alums

ADRIÁN HERNANDEZ (BA, 2021)

Adrián Hernandez is currently pursuing a dual Master's degree in art history and conservation at NYU. Their art history focus is modern and contemporary art of the Americas, while their conservation focus is time-based media and objects conservation They previously completed a year-long conservation internship funded by the J Paul Getty Foundation During the internship, they worked at the Getty Museum in the Decorative Arts and Sculpture department, treating a 16th-century marble sculpture, as well as 17th and 18th-century ceramic and glass objects from France and Vienna They also spent time at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in the objects conservation department, where they examined a mixed media artwork with cathode ray tube monitors and custom software and electronics. This summer, they will be interning at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation through a partnership with Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA)

EMILY NUSBAUM (BA, 2022)

Emily Nusbaum earned her Bachelor’s in Art History and Computer Science in May of 2022, after serving as President of AHA, completing her honors thesis "The Private Reformation: A Case Study of the English Reformation in the Private Chapels at Haddon Hall and Hardwick Hall," and giving symposium presentation on the influence of the Northern Renaissance on Botticelli’s Cestello Annunciation After graduating, Emily moved to Philadelphia and began her career as a software engineer at Capital One Emily has also continued her art history research through her Instagram (@modern.vasari) and her website (modernvasari.com).

Photo: Adrián Hernandez removes polish residue from a 15th century marble bust

Thank You to Our Donors and Supporters

The Department of Art History and Archaeology would like to extend our deepest gratitude to The Rhee Family, Helen and Michael Stein, The Frank di Federico Memorial Fund, the George Levitine Fund, and anonymous donors for their generous contributions to our community

Your support is greatly appreciated!

Photo: A group of graduate students in the Art History and Archaeology Department (left to right) Christine Quach, JooHee Kim, Juliet Huang, Zoe Copeman, Tony Cui, Noriko Okada, Alyssa Huges, Holly Miller, and Marco Polo Juárez Cruz