Baker awarded Huntington Library Fellowship | Baker awarded Huntington Library Fellowship | mebaker | 3/8/2024 5:00:00 AM | | <p>Megan Baker, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History, was awarded a Mayers Fellowship to conduct research at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens during the 2023-24 academic year. This fellowship enabled Baker to spend two months at the Huntington, where she consulted artistic treatises and artworks related to her dissertation, “Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814.”<br></p> | <img alt="" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/Baker-headshot-uncropped.jpeg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2024.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=363 | |
Ikem Okoye concludes fellowship with Canadian Centre for Architecture | Ikem Okoye concludes fellowship with Canadian Centre for Architecture | ;isokoye; | 9/29/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p><a href="https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/people/okoye" target="_blank"><strong>Ikem Okoye</strong></a>, Ph.D., associate professor of art history,<strong> </strong>concluded two years as associate chair in summer 2023, while also completing a two-year non-residential research fellowship with the Canadian Centre for Architecture in spring 2023. From the work conducted during the fellowship emerged a jointly authored book, <em><a href="https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/89565/fugitive-archives-a-sourcebook-for-centring-africa-in-histories-of-architecture" target="_blank">Fugitive Archives</a></em>, published in September 2023. <br></p><p>In 2022, Okoye published "Caregiving, Scholar-Parenting, and Small Works," for <em>gta papers</em>, the academic journal of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture in the ETH Zurich. </p><p>His essay "Designs on Tradition: Decolonizing Contemporary African Architecture," is in the 2022 edition of <em>Radical Pedagogies</em> (Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris and Anna-Maria Meister (eds.), published by MIT Press).</p><p>In 2021, Okoye published “Race, the Matrilineal Unseen, and African Absence in the History of Architecture" in the special issue “Architecture and Race 1400-1800" for the <em>Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. </em>In the same journal's second special issue, Okoye published “<a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/jsah/pages/vi_80th_anniversary_part_2#Kubler" target="_blank">Introduction to George Kubler</a>, The Machine for Living in 18th-Century West Africa" (<em>JSAH </em> 4, 2 (1944): 30-33). Okoye also published “<a href="https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/77238/where-was-not-modernism" target="_blank">Where was not Modernism</a>," published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture.<br></p> | <img alt="Ikem S. Okoye Headshot" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/okoye-bio.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=360 | |
UD grad student Craig Lee joins Art Institute of Chicago | UD grad student Craig Lee joins Art Institute of Chicago | ;lee; | 9/25/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p><br></p><div></div><div>University of Delaware doctoral student <strong>Craig Lee</strong> is an assistant curator in architecture and design at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently working on a retrospective exhibition of architect Bruce Goff scheduled for late 2025. Lee joined the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 as a Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. </div><div><br></div> | <img alt="Craig Lee Headshot" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/Lee_Craig-GradImpact-028.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#8442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1;L0|#08442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1|Appointments;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=347 | |
UD grad student Gabriella Johnson wins Rome Prize | UD grad student Gabriella Johnson wins Rome Prize | ;johnson;AAR;amacademyrome; | 8/10/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p>Ph.D. candidate <strong><a href="https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/people/johnson">Gabriella Johnson</a></strong> (advisor Professor Emeritus David Stone) won the <a href="https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/news/college/Pages/Harvest-from-the-Sea.aspx">Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Marian and Andrew Heiskell Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize</a> in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome for 2023<span style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman", serif;"><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman", serif;">–</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;"></span></span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;"></span>2024. This highly competitive fellowship is supporting research for Gabriella's dissertation, “Galatea's Realm: The Art of Coral, Shells, and Marine Fossils in Early Modern Sicily, Naples, and the Maltese Islands," which studies how the sea influenced artistic production in the western Mediterranean world.<br></p> | <img alt="Gabriella Johnson portrait" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/ARTH-2022-johnson-gabby.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=343 | |
Alumni Update: Marianne Richter | Alumni Update: Marianne Richter | ;richter; | 8/7/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p>University of Delaware alumna <strong>Marianne Richter</strong> (M.A. 90) has been director of The Columbus Museum in Georgia since February 2015. The Museum recently co-organized the traveling exhibition "Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful" with the Chrysler Museum of Art, and for which a catalogue was co-published with Yale University Press. The Columbus Museum's extensive holdings for Thomas (paintings, works on paper, and archival materials) were among the works featured in the exhibition, which was on view from 2021 to 2022 at the Chrysler Museum, the Phillips Collection, and the Frist Art Museum before concluding in Columbus. The museum is currently closed until early 2024 for renovations and reinstallation of the collection.<br></p> | <img alt="Marianne Richter Headshot" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/Marianne%20Richter%20Headshot_Courtesy%20of%20Columbus%20Museum.png" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#d586cffd-ad4b-45b9-8581-f6a2bbf70d87;L0|#0d586cffd-ad4b-45b9-8581-f6a2bbf70d87|Presentations;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=356 | |
UD grad student Erin Hein receives award for excellence in teaching | UD grad student Erin Hein receives award for excellence in teaching | ;hein; | 7/7/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p>In May 2022, <strong><a href="https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/people/hein">Erin Hein</a></strong> received the Anna R. and Robert T. Silver Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Art History department. During the summer and fall of 2022, Hein conducted research abroad, supported by a Global Dissertation Development Grant and a Unidel Louise Roselle Collections-Based Research Travel Award, for her dissertation “Accident and Fortuna in Seventeenth-Century Italian Art and Theory." Hein was able to consult drawings by the seventeenth-century painter-draftsman Guercino in the renowned collections at Windsor Castle in Windsor, UK; Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, UK; the British Museum in London; and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Hein also visited the house of Italian Renaissance painter Giorgio Vasari in Arezzo, Italy, to study and photograph frescos in the so-called Room of Fortune, which will be featured in Hein's dissertation. In February 2023, Hein presented a paper entitled “Guercino's Ink-Splattered Drawings and Collaborations with Chance" at the Barnes Foundation's Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art. The paper included new insights and images gathered during Hein's 2022 collections research. In July, Hein attended the National Humanities Center's Graduate Institute, which focused on inclusive and accessible pedagogy. Her participation in the institute was generously supported by the Graduate College, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Art History.<br></p> | <img alt="Erin Hein headshot" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/Hein,%20Erin%20Headshot.jpeg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=346 | |
UD grad student Victoria Sunnergren curates exhibition of indigenous art | UD grad student Victoria Sunnergren curates exhibition of indigenous art | ;sunnergren; | 6/24/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p>University of Delaware graduate student <strong><a href="https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/people/sunnergren">Victoria Sunnergren</a></strong> was appointed in October 2022 to the first-ever associate curatorship of Native American art with Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. Sunnergren is a Ph.D. candidate and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in UD's curatorial-track Ph.D. program in art history. She leads the interpretation and exhibition of the museum's collection of Indigenous art and material culture. As associate curator, Sunnergren guides the museum's program together with an advisory board constituted by Indigenous artists, curators, and community leaders. <br></p><p>Her first project, <a href="https://shelburnemuseum.org/exhibition/built-from-the-earth/">Built from the Earth: Pueblo Pottery from the Anthony and Teressa Perry Collection at Shelburne Museum</a>, is on view June 24 – Oct 22, 2023. It highlights important items from the Anthony and Teressa Perry collection, and focuses on the skill and artistry of potters from eight of the Pueblo communities in New Mexico: Acoma, Cochiti, Laguna, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, San Ildefonso, Zia, and Zuni. <br></p> | <img alt="Victoria Sunnergren Headshot" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/Victoria%20Sunnergren%20Headshot.jpeg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#8442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1;L0|#08442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1|Appointments;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=344 | |
Jason Hill awarded Getty Scholar Fellowship | Jason Hill awarded Getty Scholar Fellowship | ;hill;getty; | 6/15/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong><a href="https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/people/faculty/hill">Jason Hill</a></strong>, Ph.D., an associate professor of art history, was awarded a Getty Residential Scholar Fellowship for the theme "Art & Technology," beginning January 2024. </p><p>Hill was recognized for his work as guest editor of a special double issue of <em>History of Photography</em> on "<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03087298.2021.2144424" target="_blank">Photography and Policing</a>" (volume 45, 2021), which he co-edited with Rutgers Professor Zeynep Devrim Gürsel. <br></p><p>The <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/thph20/45/3-4" target="_blank">double issue</a> explored the question of photography's worldwide entanglement with policing from the 1850s to the present. It featured twelve interdisciplinary articles developing new research on photography's global entanglements with policing since the mid-nineteenth century.<br></p><p>Hill's own contribution to the issue was his November 2022 article, "<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03087298.2022.2112469" target="_blank">Municipal Law Enforcement and its Transmissions</a>." His article sketched the inauguration of a visual culture shaped by the emergent media of police radio in Kansas City in the mid twentieth century. Through a close reading of a mural painted and installed since 1950 in Kansas City police headquarters, he considered how the technology of police radio punitively reordered the image of urban space in that city (and since).<br></p><p>In 2022, Hill presented related research on policing and visual media at a number of venues, including the University of Southern California, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Howard University, and at the FotoFocus Symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio.<br></p> | <img alt="/ForTheRecord Images/History of Photography 45.3-4, 2021, Cover photo by Alexis Hunley.jpg" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/History%20of%20Photography%2045.3-4,%202021,%20Cover%20photo%20by%20Alexis%20Hunley.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | <img alt="Artist-Patrolman Murray explains his mural, Owensboro Messenger, March 2, 1950, Image credits- Photo- Owensboro Messenger" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/Artist-Patrolman%20Murray%20explains%20his%20mural,%20Owensboro%20Messenger,%20March%202,%201950,%20%20%20Image%20credits-%20Photo-%20Owensboro%20Messenger.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=349 | |
Alumni Update: Anne Strachan Cross | Alumni Update: Anne Strachan Cross | ;strachan cross; | 6/1/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Anne Strachan Cross</strong>, who successfully defended and completed her Ph.D. dissertation in the spring and early summer of 2023, will take on a new role as an assistant teaching professor of American art history at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Her dissertation was titled “'Features of Cruelty Which Could Not Well Be Described by the Pen': The Media of Atrocity in Harper's Weekly, c. 1862 – 1866." Her committee was overseen by her advisor Dr. Jason E. Hill, included Dr. Wendy E. Bellion and Dr. Jennifer Van Horn of the University of Delaware, and Dr. Matthew Fox-Amato of the University of Idaho. <br></p> | <img alt="Anne Strachan Cross head shot" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/Anne%20Strachan%20Cross_Leica-Park.jpeg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#8442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1;L0|#08442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1|Appointments;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=341 | |
McGee publishes essay | McGee publishes essay | ;mcgee; | 5/26/2023 4:00:00 AM | | <p><a href="https://www.arthistory.udel.edu/people/faculty/mcgee"><strong>Julie L. McGee</strong></a>, Ph.D., associate professor of Africana studies and
art history, contributed the lead essay to a publication on work by
artist Whitfield Lovell. <em><a href="https://www.artbook.com/9780871300935.html" target="_blank">Whitfield Lovell: Deep River</a></em> was published by <a href="https://www.eakinspress.com/index.cfm" target="_blank">Eakins Press Foundation</a> in May 2023. McGee wrote the main text, while Prof. Kellie Jones of Columbia University Art History wrote the preface. The afterword was by Whitfield Lovell. The monograph considers Lovell’s <em>Deep River</em> installation, which paid homage to “Camp Contraband.” The Union Army site near Chattanooga, Tennessee, served as a refuge for freedom seekers in the Confederate South during the Civil War. <br></p> | <img alt="Julia McGee headshot" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/mcgee-bio.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | <img alt="Deep River by Whitfield Lovell" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/Whitfield%20Lovell%20Cover.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=312 | |