Department of Art History

Faya Causey, Head of the Department of Academic Programs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC will be delivering a lecture on Tuesday, April 10, 2012.  This event is open to the public.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Buford House, Room 202
922 West Franklin Street
2:00pm – 4:00pm

Sarah Betzer, Assistant Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Art History in the McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia will be delivering a lecture “Ingres’ Shadows” on Friday, April 6, 2012.  This event is open to the public.

Friday, April 6, 2012
Buford House, Room 202
922 West Franklin Street
2:00pm – 4:00pm

Stephen Melville, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State University will be delivering his lecture “Between Image and Medium”.  He has published widely on contemporary art as well as on issues in contemporary theory and historiography.  This event is open to the public.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Buford House, Room 202
922 West Franklin Street
4:00pm – 6:00pm

Peter John Brownlee, Associate Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art will discuss the Terra’s collections policy, history and its partnership with other institutions including the current installation of Samuel Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.  This event is open to all Graduate Students in the Department of Art History.

Friday, October 7, 2011
Buford House, Room 202
922 West Franklin Street
11:00am – 12:30pm

John Rajchman, Adjunct Professor and Director of Modern Art M.A. Programs in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University will present his lecture on Contemporary Chinese Art.  This lecture is free and open to the public.

Friday, September 9, 2011
Oliver Hall Physical Sciences Wing, room 1031
1001 W. Main Street
4:00pm – 6:00pm

El Anatsui will deliver the 2011 Windmueller Lecture along with Babatunde Lawal, Professor in the Department of Art History.  El Anatsui’s work is featured in the Anderson Gallery’s fall exhibition, ”Environment and Object:  Recent African Art”.  This event is free and open to the public.  For more information please visit the VCUarts Anderson Gallery website.

Monday, September 19, 2011
Grace Street Theatre
934 W. Grace Street
5:30pm – 7:00pm

Admission is free to students, $8.00 per person for members of sponsoring institutions, and $10.00 per person for others.  Reservations are necessary for a post-conference reception, at an additional charge of $15.00.  For additional information, please call 804/828-2784 or email arthistory@vcu.edu.

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Friday, November 18th, 2011
9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Virginia Historical Society

• Undergraduate Art History student, James Shaeffer has been accepted into the Curatorial Studies Residency Program at the Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin, Germany. James is a Spring 2012 graduation candidate for a dual degree in Art History and Sculpture.
• PhD student Kerry Lucinda Brown will travel to Nepal in February to further her dissertation research. In addition, Kerry will present her paper, “Likeness and Presence: Manifesting the Sacred in Newar Art” at the 42nd Annual Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art organized by the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland and co-sponsored by National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Story in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C.,  March 30 – 31, 2012. 
• PhD student Sara Moriarty recevied a Graduate Student Research Grant from the School of the Arts to research Kunstmuseum Solothurn for several weeks this spring. 
• Graduate student Kaitlan Linnea Smith was selected for the Bobby Chandler Internship at the Virginia Historical Society.  She will be giving tours through the Story of Virginia Exhibit to school aged children and will receive a stipend for her work. 
• Graduate student Kristie Couser is currently interning at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts under Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art. This fall Kristie began serving as a College Advisor to teenagers participating in the VMFA Museum Leaders in Training program.
• Undergradute student, Dennis Williams along with several students received a 2012 Undergraduate Research Grant (Faculty mentor:  Dr. Charles Brownell).  The Leigh Street Armory Project – Uncovery and Revitalization located at the corner of St. Peter and Leigh Streets, the Leigh Street Armory is one of only three such armories ever built in the U.S. for African Americans. Erected in 1895, it was an emblem of African American independence and community. The students will 1) provide scholarly documentation outlining the historical importance of this building and the African American militias, 2) document the style of armories and their important place in the architectural record, 3) conduct interviews of community members and local historians, and 4) formulate a design packet illustrating the potential use of the structure as an African American military museum and community art center/garden. A community forum will present a proposal for reuse of the building, a documentary of its history, and a theatrical production.
• Professor Dr. Babatunde Lawal delieverd the keynote address at the Congresso De Cultura e Religiao Yorurba at the Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, in Brazil, December 1, 2011.
• PhD Student Elilzabeth Ann Fuqua was selected to receive the Virginia Association
  of Museums (VAM)/American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) scholarship to attend the American Association for State and Local History conference in Richmond, VA , September 14-17, 2011.
• PhD Student Elilzabeth Ann Fuqua will be presenting her paper “Theodor DeBry’s Images of the
  Americas and their Afterlife” at the 2012 Virginia Forum “Greater Virginias”. This event will be held at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 29-31, 2012
• PhD Student Kerry Lucinda Brown was invited to present at the Graduate Student Workshop, “Buddhist Art: Objects and Contexts” at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, Missouri on November 10 – 11, 2011. Organized in conjunction with the museum exhibition, Reflections of the Buddha, this workshop challenges participants to reflect on the diverse concepts of “context” in the study of Buddhist art. 
• Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair in American Art, along with Jean Crutchfield curated the large-scale exhibition, Tavares Strachan: seen/unseen which opened at an undisclosed New York City location (September 19-October 20, 2011). http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=ai45xyhab&v=001HyWuGvOOR8iCfXvICO47uaqsnedJl2XVtw2Iyx3Bd5SLMsNR0C54zvl2zhucop38FTwmpeO-bmm5CZQvg2o1tudE8H4ZIK2g6aA-Q-WFHdlyQwe8KP228g%3D%3D
• Undergraduate Student, Richard Tyler King will be presenting his paper “Chronicling Urbanism In-Between:  There/Here” at the second International Conference on the Constructed Environment, October 29-30, 2011
  http://constructedenvironment.com/conference-2011/
• PhD Student, Samina Iqbal will be presenting her work in the upcoming exhibition “Iaac Erasing Borders 2011:  Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora” at the Jorgensen Galler, Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
  http://www.iaac.us/erasing_borders_2011/index.htm
• Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Dina Bangdel will be presenting her paper “Pilgrimage to Gosainkunda:  Experiencing a Syncretic Space” at the International Symposium Himalayan Odyssy organized by the Indian Cultural Center, Embassy of India in Kathmandu, Nepal, November 11-13, 2011.  Dr. Bangdel will then travel to Mumbai, India to present the Keynote Address for the Exhibition which she co-curated “Feminie Visions of Contemporary Nepalese Art”, November 20-27, 2011
• Associate Professor James Farmer along with PhD Students Andrea Alvarez, Kristina Keogh, Amy Marshman, Sara Moriarty and Kaitlin Smith will be presenting at the 67th Annual Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), November 9-12, 2011.
• Associate Professor James Farmer presented his paper “What’s NOT in Barrier Canyon Art and What Does (or doesn’t) It Mean?” at the Utah Rock Art Research Association Annual Symposium in Price, Utah, September 21-26, 2011
• Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Dina Bangdel presented her paper “Encountering the Sacred:  Art and Ritual in Himalayan Art” at the Nevada Museum of Art, in Reno, NV, June 27-30, 2011.
• Associate Professor James Farmer traveled to Albuquerque, NM to present his paper “The solar Program at Azetc Ruin Great Kiva” at the Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest, June 15-18, 2011.
• Professor Babatunde Lawal spent the Spring 2011 semester at the National Museum of African Art (Washington, D.C.) on a Senior Smithsonian Fellowship completing a book tentatively titled “Signifying the Thunderstorm Deity:  Sango in Yoruba Art.”   The book explores the interplay of word and image of Sàngó iconography as well as the changing transnational reinterpretation of Sàngó forms by artists of African descent in the Americas.
• PhD Student Jessica Welton will be participating in a panel of Young Scholars at the 17th Annual Native American Art Studies Association in Ontario, Canada, October 26-29, 2011.
• PhD Student Glenna Barlow has received a Fulbright Student Scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year.  She will travel to Mumbai, India to research decorative motifs in ephemeral folk art and work under the direction of Professor Prakash Khandge at the University of Mumbai.
• PhD Student Sara K. Moriarty received the Paul and Fredrika Jacobs Scholarship Award for the 2011-12 academic year.
• Undergraduate Student, Richard Tyler King will be presenting his paper “Chronicling Urbanism In-Between  There/Here” at the second International Conference on the Constructed Environment, October 27-31, 2011.
• Undergraduate Students Elizabeth Forbes and James Shaeffer received the Bernice B. Gordon Scholarship Award for the fall 2011 semester.
• Undergraduate Student Emily Stock received the Barbara Ellen Powers Scholarship Award for the fall 2011 semester.
• Undergraduate Student Shazia Aziz received the Maurice Bonds Scholarship Award for the fall 2011 semester.
• Undergraduate Student Corey Martin received the 2011 Dean’s International Study Grant to travel to Kathmandu, Nepal.

• Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalhimer Chair in American Art presented his paper “Image Duplication:  Roy Lichtenstein’s Legacy” at The Morgan Library & Museum’s Symposium “Lichtenstein in Context:  Drawing in the 1960′s”.
• Dina Bangdel, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies published Pilgrimage and Faith:  Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam along with Virginia C. Raguin and F.E. Peters (Chicago:  Serindia Publications, 2010).
• Michael Schreffler, Associate Professor and Department Chair published his paper “‘To Live in the City is to Die’:  Death and Architecture in Colonial Cuzco, Peru” in Hispanic Issue On Line 7 (2010) Death and Afterlife in the Modern Hispanic World, eds. Constance Cortez and John Beusterien.

  http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/DeathandAfterlife.html

• Graduate Student Glenna Barlow has received a Fulbright Student Scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year.  She will travel to Mumbai, India to research decorative motifs in ephemeral folk art and work under the direction of Professor Prakash Khandge at the University of Mumbai.
• PhD Candidate Kerry Lucinda Brown presented two lectures on the Art History of Newar Buddhism at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal where she is a visiting Fulbright Fellow.  On November 9th she presented her lecture “Nepal Mandala:  Localizing the Scared in Newar Art” and on November 12th she presented her lecture The Iconography of Dipankara Buddha in Nepal”.
• Corinne McVeigh, Master of Arts candidate in the Museum Studies track has received a Thesis/Dissertation Award from the VCU Graduate School.  The award provides tuition support and stipend that allows authors to focus on their scholarship.  Corinne is expected to defend her thesis, “The Stockbridge-Munsee Tote at the National Museum of the American Indian”, during the Fall 2010 semester.
• PhD Student Kristina Keogh received the Paul and Fredrika Jacobs Scholarship Award for the 2010-11 academic year.
• Undergraduate Students Jessica Ferey, Ilijana Soldan and Dennis Williams all received the Bernice B. Gordon Scholarship Award for the fall 2010 semester.