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New Faculty David Boffa presented a talk entitled "Power and Legitimacy in City Spaces: The Reliquary of the Holy Corporal in Orvieto" at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK, last summer.then spent several weeks in Italy on a pre-dissertation research grant doing preliminary work on his dissertation. Jeremy Canwell curated the Zimmerli Art Museum exhibition, “Printmaking from Soviet Estonia,” which traveled to The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis. His essay “System, Terminus and Time: The Mystical Art of Raul Meel” appeared in the Estonian journal Kunst.ee. He also won the Institute of International Education Fulbright Award for 2007-2008. He currently resides in Tallinn, Estonia where he is researching his dissertation, “Mystics and Moderns: Dissident Art in Estonia from 1968 to Glasnost.’” Christine Filippone was awarded several fellowships this past year including a Guggenheim Fellowship by the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution and an American Fellowship by the American Association of University Women. She recently published two book reviews in Woman’s Art Journal, Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore ed. by Louise Downey and Women Together/ Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris by Tirza True Latimer. Christine delivered two papers; “A Metaphor for Change: The Aesthetics of Open Systems in the Work of Alice Aycock and Agnes Denes” at theAir and Space Museum,“Technological Dystopias in the Garden” at the annual conference of The Society for Utopian Studies. She will present the paper, “War, Technology and Feminist Utopias in the Works of Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann” at CAA Dallas. Olivia Gruber won a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Sciences Research Council. The fellowship funded a summer 2007 research trip to Austria for her dissertation, "Representations of Beauty: Empress Elisabeth of Austria and the Visual Culture of Femininity in Austria-Hungary, 1848-1918". Florence Quideau worked as a guest curator on the retrospective exhibition, Honoré Daumier and La Maison Aubert: Political and Social Satire in Paris, 1830-1860, which will be on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, in the Spring of 2008. In the Fall of 2007, she taught an undergraduate seminar that focused on the art of Daumier, which will be featured in the exhibition. She received a generous grant from the Florence Gould Foundation to secure important loans traveling from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the National Gallery, Washington D-C. This funding also supported the exhibition catalogue authored by her and Edouard Papet, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Kandice Rawlings presented a paper, "Painted Paradoxes: The Trompe-L'Oeil Fly in the Renaissance" at the Florida State University Graduate Student Symposium in art history in February of 2007, which will be published as an article in the 2008 issue of Athanor. She also won the Cowdrey Dissertation Fellowship from the art history department, as well as a travel grant from theKrieble Delmas Foundation for dissertation research in Venice. Ricki Sablove contributed an essay for the catalogue accompanying the exhibition “Favorite Elements: Works by Orlan,” co-curated by Ferris Olin and Judith K. Brodsky. The exhibition, featuring photographs and videos, as well as a live presentation by the French performance artist, was presented as part of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library Galleries at Douglass College from March 8 through April 13.
Sascha Scott is currently a Henry Luce Foundation/ ACLS Dissertation Fellow. She was also a AAUW American Fellowship Awardee.Sascha presented the following papers last spring: "Will the Real John Sloan Please Stand Up?," CAA (February 2007), "Unwrapping Ernest L. Blumenschein's The Gift," Smithsonian American Art Museum's Fellows Lectures Series (May 2007), "Politicking for Preservation: Ernest L. Blumenschein's Paintings of Pueblo Indians," HAGS Symposium, University of Kansas (April 2007). Mary Shay Millea announces the arrival of Luca Alden Millea on August 21st, 2007.Mary also received two fellowships, the Kress Travel Grant (2007/8), and the Metropolitan Museum Fellowship (2008/9).
Mary Tinti successfully defended her dissertation, “The Contemporary Art of Travel: Siting Public Sculpture within the Culture of Flight,” in December, 2007. In March, she will present a paper entitled “Airport, Sculpture, Space: Considerations for Site Responsive Public Art at the Airport” at the 2008 URI Graduate Student Conference the theme of which is “Space, Place, and Imagination.”
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