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Steve Arbury (PhD ’92) presented the following papers: “Some Thoughts on Marian Images in Spanish Art,” College Art Association annual conference, Philadelphia (February 2002); and “The Role of the University Art Museum: A Director’s Point of View,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Mobile, AL (October 2002). In May 2002, he led a student group to Greece for two weeks on the mainland and one week in Crete. Alexis Boylan (PhD ’01) will present a paper entitled “A Mother’s Touch: Sculpting the Career of Abastenia St. Leger Eberle” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. Denise Budd (BA ’95) will present a paper entitled, “Bianca Maria as La Belle Ferronniere” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. She is currently a part-time lecturer in our undergraduate Art History department. Meredith Bzdak (PhD ’95) will present a paper entitled “Ralf Thomas Walker and the Barclay-Vesey Telephone Building: Architectural Ornamentation during the Interwar Period” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. Michael
Bzdak (PhD ’95) will present a paper entitled “Images and
Nick
Capasso (PhD ’98) co-organized the exhibition, “Painting in
Boston: 1950-2000,” and contributed the catalogue essay, “Expressionism:
Ching
Jung Chen (PhD ’01) is the slide curator at City College in
New York.
Ching-Jung Chen Elizabeth Thompson Colleary published “Marguerite Thompson Zorach: Some Newly Discovered Works, 1910-1913” in Woman’s Art Journal 23 (Spring/Summer 2002). Victor Coonin (PhD ’97) will chair a session entitled, “Continuity and Changes in Italian Art: The Sense of Touch,” at the College Art Association annual conference in February 2003. Adrienne
DeAngelis (PhD ’99) published an article entitled, “Danese
Cattaneo’s Portrait Bust of Girolamo Giganti,” in the Burlington Magazine
143 (December 2001). The bust had been in storage in the Victoria and Albert
Museum and is now on
Amy Driscoll (MA ’00) is the Assistant Curator of Education at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. Henry J. Duffy (PhD ’01) is Curator and Chief of the Division of Collections Management at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. In February 2003, a retrospective of Augustus Saint-Gaudens will open. The exhibition will travel to twelve venues during the next three years and will end in Buffalo in 2006. Philip Earenfight (PhD ’99) presently teaches at Dickinson College. Craig
Eliason (PhD ’02) presented the paper, “Theo van Doesburg, Italian
Futurist?” at the 11th Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies
in Ann Arbor, MI, April 2002. Since September 2002, he has assumed
a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Modern Art History at
the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, a medium-sized Catholic university
with an MA program in Art History. In October, he participated in
a peer seminar with the paper, “From Colleague to Critic: Van Doesburg,
Mondrian, and Dada,” at the 4th Modernist Studies Association conference in Madison, WI.
Lois, Craig and Emi Eliason at their new home in St. Paul, MN Marianne Ficarra (MA ’94) is the Coordinator of the Transcultural New Jersey Initiative at the Rutgers Office for Intercultural Initiatives. She is working on a multicultural project that will culminate in a 2004 series of statewide exhibitions focusing on the achievements of New Jersey artists from African American, Asian American, Latin American, and Native American backgrounds. The Rutgers Art History department’s involvement in this project includes alum Meredith Bzdak, whose Spring ’03 architecture class will select several religious architectural sites as research topics, and current graduate student, Ann Keen, who will act as a research-liaison both with this class and Rutgers’ Stedman Gallery’s curator, Nancy Maguire. Also related to the Transcultural Initiative, Joan Marter’s graduate class will engage in research on sculpture in the collection of the New Jersey State Museum. Alison Fleming (BA) will present the paper, “ ‘Real Saints and ‘Spectral’ Prophets: The Role of the Painted Bodies in the Pomposa Chapterhouse,” at the Early Italian Art Conference, University of Georgia, November. Alison is currently at the College of the Holy Cross. Joanna Gardner-Huggett (PhD ’97) will present the paper, “The Case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations,” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. Caroline Goesser (PhD ’00) will present a paper entitled “The Case of Ebony and Topaz: Racial and Sexual Hybridity in Harlem Renaissance Illustrations” at the College Art Association annual conference in February 2003. Pamela Goldsteen (PhD ’97) and her husband David welcomed their second child, Gabriel Alexander Goldsteen, on August 4, 2002. Andrew Graciano (BA ’95) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina, after having completed his PhD in May 2002 from the University of Virginia. From November-December 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art. He recently presented a paper at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference in a session entitled, “Medicine and the Human Condition,” St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University (January 2003), and will be delivering a paper on Joseph Wright’s Derbyshire landscape paintings at the Huntington Library in California in February. He has three more papers planned for August at the joint American and International Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference at UCLA. Donna Gustafson (MA ’84) is the Director of Exhibitions at the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton. Her book Images from the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-Century American Art was published in 2001 by the American Federation of Arts and MIT Press. Penelope Harkness (MA ’77) presently lives in “the heartland with my two big dogs, many books, pictures, paint and silk thread, restarting my nearly lost artistic life.” Frima Hofrichter (PhD ’79) was appointed Chair of the Art History Department at Pratt Institute in New York. She will present a paper entitled, “Births and Biography,” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. Elizabeth Howard (PhD ’79) is teaching at the California Institute of Technology. Cheryl Kramer published the article, “Natalia Goncharova: Her Depiction of Jews in Tsarist Russia,” in Woman’s Art Journal 23 (Spring/Summer 2002). Melissa Beck Lemke (MA ’94) published A Guide to the National Gallery of Art Photo Archives, Washington, DC, 2002. Thomas J. Loughman (PhD ’02) is currently teaching Byzantine and Renaissance courses, as well as a survey, at Pennsylvania State University. This year he is the organizer for the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held on May 8-11, 2003, at Kalamazoo, MI. Dina Comisarenco Mirkin (PhD ’97) published the book review of Margaret A. Lindauer’s Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo in Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art 3 (2002). Scott
B. Montgomery (PhD ’96) is Assistant Professor of Art History
at the University of North Texas. He and his wife, Alice A. Bauer (BA ’89),
are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Francesca Isabella Montgomery,
on April 9, 2002. In the fall 2002, Scott and Alice co-authored an
article, “Caput sancti regis Ladislai: The Reliquary Bust of St. Ladislas
and Holy Kingship in Late Medieval Hungary,” Decorations for the Holy Dead:
Visual Embellishments on Tombs and Shrines of Saints (International Medieval
Research: Art History, Vol. 8), eds. E. Valdexdel Alamo and S. Lamia
Turnhout: Brepols, 2002). Scott also contributed an essay, “Lignum Vitae:
The Grain of Thought,” for the exhibition catalogue, Grain of Thought:
A Survey of Works by Don Schol (Denton: University of North Texas Art Gallery,
2002).
Francesca Isabella Montgomery Amy Mooney (PhD ’01) will chair the session, “Passing as Self-Portraiture,” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. Ferris Olin (PhD ’98) will be a discussant at the session, “Institutional Representation,” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. Allison Palmer’s (PhD ’94) article, “The Maternal Madonna in Quattrocento Florence: Social Ideals in the Family of the Patriarch,” was featured in Source 21 (Spring 2002). Pam Phillips-Malcolm (MA ’01) was appointed Curator of Education at the Albany Institute of Art. Felicia Messina-D’Haiti (MA ’95) was a participant in the Fulbright Memorial Fund (FMF) Teacher Program in October 2002. To earn this outstanding honor she was selected from a national pool of more than 2,100 applicants by a panel of educators. This program allows distinguished primary and secondary school teachers in the U.S. to travel to Japan for three weeks in an effort to promote greater intercultural understanding between the two nations. Christine Poole is now a gallery manager at Schwarz Gallery in Phila-delphia, which specializes in 18th and 19th century American and European oils and watercolors. Dennis Raverty (PhD ’96) will present a paper entitled, “Intersubjectivity in Rumi’s Cellar,” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. Torie
Reed (PhD ’01) published an article, based on her dissertation,
entitled “Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint John Triptych for Miraflores and
Reconsideration of Salome,” in the leading Dutch journal of art history,
Oud Holland 115 (2002-2002). In June 2001, she was appointed Friends
Curatorial Intern at the Princeton Museum.
Torie Reed Thomas Somma (MA ’83) will present a paper entitled, “Why Not Live In a Palace? An American Versailles 1916-1917,” at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2003. Francesca Toffolo (BA ’97) is now completing her dissertation at Princeton University. In October, she presented the paper, “Emillia Michiel, Patritiae Venetae: Patron of the Arts in Renaissance Venice,” at the Sixteenth Century Study Conference in San Antonio, TX. In March, she will present the paper, “Art and the Conventual Life. Veronese’s Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria,” at the RSA. Ian
Verstegen (MA ’96) will present a paper entitled, “Oratorian
Quietude from Federico Barocci to Pietro da Cortona,” at the College Art
Association
Midori
Yoshimoto (PhD ’02) defended her dissertation, “Into Performance:
Japanese Women Artists in New York, 1955-75,” in May 2002. She has
also signed a contract with Rutgers University Press for the publication
of her dissertation. In October, Midori completed an exhibition,
with a bilingual catalog, on a Museum that traveled to its sister museum
in Fukui, Japan. On November 2, 2002, she married Clark Gregory Hagerty
(PhD, Computer Science). Their wedding was held at Princeton Friends
Meeting House.
Midori Yoshimoto and Greg Hagerty Lilian Zirpolo (PhD ’94) co-organized with Allison Palmer (PhD ’94) the session, “Politics, Marriage, and Civic Identity in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting,” at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in San Antonio, TX, in October 2002. At the same session, Dr. Zirpolo presented the paper, “Pietro da Cortona’s David Cycle in the Villa del Pigneto Sacchetti: Chronological and Iconographic Considerations,” forthcoming in expanded form as an article. She also presented a paper, “Death, Philosophy, and Civic Duty in Lanfranco’s Sacchetti Chapel Frescoes at S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome” at CAA 2002 in Philadelphia, which stems from her book on Sacchetti patronage in seventeenth-century Rome that was recently completed. Her latest publications include: “Bernini’s Faun Teased by Children,” in Discoveries, The South-Central Renaissance Conference News and Notes (forthcoming, 2004) and “Artemisia Gentileschi’s Spada Madonna and the Trauma of Loss,” to be published in an anthology on women artists by Mellen Press, ed. L. de Girolami Cheney. She presented a version of this article at the South-Central Conference in St. Louis, in April 2002. She continues to act as Co-Editor/Co-Publisher, with Joanna Gardner-Huggett (PhD ’97) of Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, published under the aegis of the WAPACC organization, and now in its third year. The editors hope to expand the activities of the organization to include an art history monograph series.  |
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