Heather Hess was awarded the jointly sponsored Fulbright/IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) Junior Visiting Fellow grant. She delivered the paper “Modern and Austrian? Constructions of Identity in Hapsburg Vienna by the Wiener Werkstätte and Its Critics” at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, Second Annual Graduate Symposium “Designed Identities” April 25, 2003.

Natalia Kolodzei, co-owner of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, was the curator of From Leningrad to St. Petersburg: 25 Years of Art, an exhibition that ran through January 17 at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. Natalia gave two talks during the show, which featured selections from the Kolodzei collection and the International Association of Contemporary Russian Art Collectors.

Opening of American Sculpture Exhibition at Zimmerli Art Museum
September 13, 2003. Dr. Marter’s Exhibition Seminar. (l-r):
Danny Lanzafama, Rowanne Wayland, Thea Gunhouse, Cate
Hammond, Mary Tinti, Sascha Scott, Lisandra Estevez (front row
l-r): Florence Quideau, Patricia Kiernan, Catherine Reed

Mary-Kate O’Hare was recently promoted to Assistant Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum. She is currently working with Holly Connor (Ph.D., 1995) on the traveling exhibition, Not at Home: New Women in American Art, 1865-1900, which is scheduled to open at the museum in March, 2006.

Alison Poe won Honorable Mention for the Graduate Teaching Award from the Graduate School - New Brunswick in May, 2003, and was awarded a grant from the Princeton Pettoranello Foundation to do research in Rome starting in January, 2004. Alison delivered three papers during 2003: “Gatherings in the Tomb: The Ritual Context of the Frescoes in the Hypogaeum of the Aurelii, Rome” at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting in New Orleans, January 3-6; and “The Hypogaeum of the Aurelii: Collegium Tomb” at the UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference, April 5; and “Bringing Light to the Tomb: The Mosaic of Christ-Helios in the Mausoleum of the Julii, Rome” during The Survival and Revival of Antiquity conference, Hood College, December 5-6, 2003. She was also
guest lecturer at the Archaeological Institute of America North Jersey Chapter Lecture Series, where she spoke on “The Hypogaeum of the Aurelii” in November. In January of this year, Alison delivered the paper “Banqueting and Belonging in the Precincts and Solaria of Roman Imperial Cemeteries” at the Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco. She was a Visiting Lecturer in the Dept. of Art History at Rutgers and at the Zimmerli Art Museum, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

Catherine Reed was named an Eagleton Fellow for the 2003- 2004 academic year. Awarded by the Eagleton Institute of Politics, the fellowship provides the opportunity for Catherine to further her study in the relationships between politics, public affairs and art history. Catherine also presented a session on the modernist painter Gerald Murphy and the Russian avant garde artist Natalia Goncharova at A Salute to American Art, a program of art and music held last October at the Zimmerli Museum.

Mary Shay weds Michael Millea December 2003

Suzy Slominski delivered a paper, “From Fantasy to Reality in Self Representations by Artemesia Gentileschi” during the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America in March, 2003. Suzy’s review of The Urban Development of Rome in the Age of Alexander VII by Dorothy Metzger Habel (Cambridge: 2002) will be published in the Spring, 2004 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (57.1).

Wendy Streule received a Fulbright grant for study in the Netherlands. Wendy presented a paper, “A History of Unruly Objects: The Place of Erotica in Seventeenth-Century Holland” at Boston University’s 19th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on The History of Art on March 29, 2003. She delivered a paper at the XIIIth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in the History of Art at Indiana University on April 5, 2003. The title of her talk was “Objects of Desire and the Desire for Objects: Observations on the Erotic Silverwork of Adam van Vianen.” The following week, Wendy was among the selected participants in the annual Dissertation Workshop at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. She was also awarded a Nuffic grant to participate in an intensive Dutch language course during the summer of 2003.

Patricia Zalamea presented a paper entitled “Visualizing Rome’s Marvels in Giovanni Marcanova’s Collectio antiquitatum: The Mirabilia and Sylloge as Complementary Traditions” at a session entitled Continuity and Change in Italian Art during the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies held May 8-11, 2003 in Kalamazoo, MI.

Jennifer Zarro’s new baby, Lucy, relaxes
with her friend Primo.

Jennifer Zarro was selected as a 2004-06 Commonwealth Speaker on the Arts by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. In this capacity, she is traveling throughout the state, delivering public lectures on two topics, “The Light of Impressionism” and “African American Artists in the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.” In the fall of 2003, she taught Western Art at Philadelphia University. But her proudest accomplishment is the birth of daughter Lucy in May.