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Art Exposé – Hilary Snow

On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted it’s first Art Exposé. Art Exposé is a monthly gallery talk that exhibits a selected object from the UWM Art Collection on the second...

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ARTHIST 104 views objects from the UWM Art Collection

Visiting Assistant Professor Matt Rarey brought objects from the UWM Art Collection into Mitchell Hall 195 to show his students in ARTHIST 104: African, New World and Oceanic and Art and Architecture....

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Kay Wells Interviews Jaydan Moore and Olivia Valentine

Assistant Professor Kay Wells interviewed artists Jaydan Moore and Olivia Valentine for the Journal of Modern Craft at Virginia Commonwealth University. Their conversation addresses artists’ processes,...

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Digital Archaeology changes exploration of the past – By Kathy Quirk

An archaeologist in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is exploring the past using the tools of the 21st century. Derek Counts, professor and chair of art history,...

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Undergraduate Orientation

On Thursday, September 18, the Department of Art History held its first Undergraduate Orientation hosted by Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel.  Undergraduate students had the opportunity to meet...

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Meet Kay Wells

The newest member of our faculty, Assistant Professor Kay Wells, is a historian of American art who examines the relationships between fine and applied arts from the late eighteenth century to today....

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Jennifer Johung and The Tissue Culture & Art Project

Associate Professor Jennifer Johung’s article, “Vital Maintenance: The Tissue Culture & Art Project and Infrastructures of Care,” published in Artlink‘s September issue on Bio-Art: Life in the...

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Meet Matt Rarey

Matthew Rarey joins the UWM Department of Art History for the 2014-2015 academic year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora arts. Looking at African art as an ongoing...

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Asante stool from Ghana

Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Rarey brought a twentieth century Asante stool from Ghana into his ARTHIST 371: African Art class. Such stools, given to individuals at birth or marriage, over time...

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Rembrandt in the Classroom

Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Hilary Snow’s ARTHIST 341: 17th Century Art in Holland and Flanders had the opportunity to compare three versions of a Rembrandt print firsthand. Using prints...

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Gorfinkel Recommended for Tenure!

On Friday, October 31, the Executive committee of the Division of Arts & Humanities unanimously voted and recommended Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel for promotion to the rank of associate...

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ARTHIST 770: Japanese Print Culture Visits the Chazen

Visiting Assistant Professor Hilary Snow’s ARTHIST 770: Colloquium in Non-Western Art: Japanese Print Culture visited the Chazen Museum of Art at UW-Madison on Tuesday, November 11 to view Japanese...

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ARTHIST 341 Learns Printmaking

Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Hilary Snow’s ARTHIST 341: Seventeenth Century Art in Holland and Flanders visited the Peck School for the Arts to learn how Rembrandt made prints. Assistant...

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Johung and Gorfinkel attend World Picture Conference in Berlin

Associate Professor Jennifer Johung and Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel traveled to Berlin during the first week of November to present papers at the annual World Picture Conference held this year...

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Meet Hilary Snow

Visiting Assistant Professor Hilary K. Snow joins the art history faculty this year as a specialist in Asian art. Professor Snow’s research focuses on art and culture from the Japanese Edo period...

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ARTHIST 101 in the UWM Art History Gallery

This week teaching assistants Anna Kupiecki and Kelsey McCarey Soya brought Derek Counts’ ARTHIST 101: Ancient to Medieval Art and Architecture students to the UWM Art History Gallery to view icons and...

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Ying Wang in Tibet

Associate Professor Ying Wang participated in a pilgrimage, or khora, at the snow-mountain Kangrenboqe (also known as Mt. Gangdis, Tise and Kailas) in Tibet during the summer of 2014. The mountain is...

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African Art in the UWM Art History Teaching Gallery

On December 3 and December 8, 2014, Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Francis Rarey went from professor to student in ARTHIST 371: African Art. In the Art History Teaching Gallery, students gave...

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Elena Gorfinkel published in Screen

Assistant Professor Elena Gorfinkel’s dossier, co-edited with John David Rhodes(University of Cambridge), of four essays  on the experimental filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh has been published in the film and...

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UWM Art History in the Haggerty Museum of Art News

  The Haggerty and UWM Working TogetherThe Haggerty has always worked closely with UWM’s Peck School of the Arts and Art History departments. Over the past few years, the relationship has continued to...

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