Three of our PhD students have received research grants and fellowships for the summer of 2017 and beyond. 

James Anno has been appointed the first Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow by the Board of the American Friends of Capodimonte in Naples, Italy.  This is a wo year post-doctoral position with the possibility of a third year renewal. 

Mia Laufer has received the Posen Society of Fellows - Fellowship for Emerging Scholars. It is a two year award that includes two summer seminars led by preeminent Jewish Studies scholars. 

Kate Harnish has received a visiting research fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society.  The grant will support one month of research at the Society in Worcester, MA.  Her "Drawn to Art" Fellowship support research on American art, visual culture, and other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources. 

Several members of the department will represent Washington University at this flagship art and art history conference.  Tola C Porter, PhD student, will deliver the paper "Reanimating the Possibilities of Affect in Henry Moore's The Arch, 1980," in the session "Exhibitions between Art and Design."  

In an international symposium devoted to new research on Henri Matisse, held at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia October 14-15, Professor John Klein delivered a paper on the ontological fluidity of Matisse's paper cut-outs entitled "Ultimate Method or Ultimate Materials?" His presentation may be viewed here.  Dr Klein begins at 6hr 27min. 

Professor Klein will present the paper "Ranking Decoration," about modern decorative arts as an avant-garde strategy, in the quadrennial International Congress of the History of Art (CIHA) to be held in Beijing in September. PhD candidate Heather Read will also attend the Congress, as the guest of the National Committee for the History of Art (US) and the CIHA-China Secretariat.

Professor Miller received a Faculty Research Grant for summer 2016, which supported ongoing research at the New York Public Library into the papers of Lincoln Kirstein. This allowed her to continue the research she conducted at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, at the National Gallery in Washington in 2015-2016. She also interviewed a number of Kirstein's friends and associates for this project. 

Professor Elizabeth Childs and graduate students from the Department of Art History and Archaeology gather around Meg Galindo (MA/PhD student) and Max Valsamas (PhD student), the co-curators of this summer’s installment of the Teaching Gallery at the Kemper Art Museum. Meg and Max delivered a gallery talk on May 12, 2016 to discuss the larger themes of their show Battle of Ideal vs. Real: The Figure in Nineteenth-Century Art. The exhibition characterizes the nineteenth century as a transformative period in the arts, because artists increasingly experimented with alternative ways of representing the human body while questioning established conventions. The Teaching Gallery exhibition is on display until July 31, 2016 in conjunction with the course Introduction to Western Art, Architecture, and Designed offered at Washington University in summer 2016.

During Alumni Reunion Weekend 2016, we were delighted to host a lunch in honor of alumna Barbara Pollard-Stein of Scarsdale, New York, who has generously endowed an annual teaching prize for graduate students in our Department. Left to right are Jennifer Padgett (PhD candidate, and this year's winner of the award), Prof. John Klein, Barbara Pollard-Stein, Anna Warbelow, PhD, and Erin Sutherland, PhD (both recent winners of the award), and Prof. Liz Childs.  Thank you Barbara for supporting our outstanding students, and for helping us to recognize their exceptional teaching skills.

The Washington University publication Ampersand has written an excellent article detailing the success of the Graduate Art History Student Symposium that took place on April 1-2, 2016.  To read the article click here.