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July 23, 2007
News about former MA student:
WEST PALM BEACH.- The Norton Museum of Art announced Marisa J. Pascucci as the new Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Curator of American Art. Her responsibilities include caring for and continuing to develop the Norton Museum’s renowned collection of American paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the 19th and 20th-centuries. The collection includes masterpieces by George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, Stuart Davis, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Manship, Jackson Pollock and many others. She is also responsible for developing exhibitions from the Museum Collection and for overseeing relevant exhibitions at the Norton Museum organized by other institutions.
Roger Ward, Chief Curator at Norton Museum of Art said, “We are delighted that Marisa is joining the curatorial staff. I very much look forward to working with her on our upcoming exhibitions, acquisitions and publications of American paintings and sculpture.”
Anne Smith, who endowed the position, commented, “I am very pleased that Ms. Pascucci will be representing the Norton Museum’s fine collection of American art as well as related traveling exhibitions. This particular aspect of the collection was a great pride of Ralph Norton and I am confident that he would be very pleased to have the legacy he created cared for and continued by such a qualified individual.”
May 26, 2007
The 2007-2008 Art for Lunch Co-Coordinators are Paula Burleigh and DJ Hellerman, and the new Cleveland Symposium Co-Chairs are Katherine Flach, Alisa McCusker and Ellen Stedtefeld.
May 25, 2007
Frank Spicer was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa Grant for Student Research.
May 17, 2007
Click here to view the the online component of "The History the Book" exhibition that was presented in the Special Collections Department at Kelvin Smith Library in April 2007 in conjunction with Humanities week.
Michael Weil, Phd candidate, is the recipient of the Graduate Dean's Instructional Excellence Award for the 2006-2007 academic year. This award is given to graduate students who have been nominated by their departments as an individual who demonstrates outstanding achievement in instruction.
April 26, 2007
Lloyd (Sandy) Ellis, Jr (Ph. D., 2003) has his book on Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) scheduled to be published in November by the University of Toronto Press. It is a translation and critical study of the post-Vasarian dialogue on Florentine art which originated from his doctoral dissertation.
April 22, 2007
Congratulations to Kirsten Karakul, Lisa Volpe and Stacy Wideman for being elected as 2007-2008 GAHA co-chairs.
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Congratulations to Christine Wolken, who was awarded a Pancoast Fellowship to fund her visit to the British Museum to examine sixteenth-century Italian medallions of women.
April 5, 2007
The Rietberg Kannon show which Dr. Michael Cunningham advised on, is now open; it celebrates the opening of the new wing, and is done in collaboration with Nara National Museum. His essay in the catalogue "The Path of Kannon's Compassion and Appearance in Early Japan" is the principal intro text.
March 9, 2007
Congratulations to Frank Spicer, Phd candidate in Art History, who was awarded a residential fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven this summer.
February 2, 2007
Dr. Neils gave the keynote paper at the Parthenon Project of Japan in January.
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