Department of Art History

Events

2009-2010 Art History Faculty Lecture Series

"Burning the Devil & Dusting the Madonna: Image Efficacy in the Renaissance"
Dr. Fredrika Jacobs, Professor of Art History, VCUarts

Wednesday September 30th
4:00 - 6:00 pm
The Grace Street Theater, 934 W. Grace St, Richmond, VA

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information: 804.828.2784


Visiting Lecture Series in Art History
Dr. Patricia Simons, Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Michigan will present a public lecture Brides of Christ and "Bodily Things": The Case of the Seventeenth-Century "Lesbian Nun" part of the department's Visiting Lecture Series

Monday, October 19th
4:00 - 6:00 pm
The Grace Street Theater, 934 W. Grace St, Richmond, VA

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information: 804.828.2784


Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art
"Color in Islamic Art and Culture"

November 2 - 4, 2009
Cordorba, Spain

For more information and to receive email updates: http://www.islamicartdoha.org/
17th Annual Symposium on Architectural History and the Decorative Arts


Annual Architectural Studies Symposium
"Traditions--I"

Friday, 13 November, 2009
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Virginia Historical Society, 428 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA

The conference, directed by Professor Charles Brownell, will have four sessions. They will deal with the story of the "Palladian" window from the Ancient Near East to Richmond's Fan District; furniture classics in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and furniture made in Richmond; the art of ironwork, with special reference to VCU's nationally important collection of wrought and cast iron; and a "parade of white columns," from the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition of 1907 through more recent buildings inspired by Monticello.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and a dozen other cultural institutions join the Department of Art History in sponsoring the event.

Admission is free to students, $8.00 per person for members of sponsoring institutions, and $10.00 per person for others. Reservations are necessary for a post-conference reception, at an additional charge of $15.00, and for a walking tour of Richmond wrought iron, at $10.00. To register, please send checks, payable to VCU Conference, to Conference, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 843046, 922 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23284-3046, by November 6. Brochures will be available in early Fall. For a brochure or other information, please call 804/828-2784 or email Courtney Culbreth at cculbreth@vcu.edu.

Download 2009-10 Architectural History Symposium Brochure

News

1. Michael Schreffler received an appointment as an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, a research institute at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He will be in residence at the Center during the 2009-2010 academic year and will be working on a book about colonial architecture in Cuzco, Peru.
2. Dr. Babatunde Lawal, Professor has been invited by the Universidade do Estado da Bahia (State University of Bahia) in Salvador, Brazil to teach a one-week course on YORUBA ART AND CULTURE, July 5-10, 2009.
3. Timothy Andrus, PhD Student, presented his paper "Anarchy, Abstraction, and Catholic Modernism" at the symposium on Religion in Early American Modernism in Boston, MA.
4. Nicole De Armendi (PhD, Summer 2009) has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position at the University of Tulsa.
5. PhD Student Kerry Lucinda Brown received the Paul and Fredrika Jacobs Scholarship Award for the 2009-10 academic year.
6. Undergraduate students Rachel Hutcheson, Mary Lamb, Jennifer Nigh and Amy Sailer all received the Bernice B. Gordon Scholarship Award for the Fall 2009 semester.
7. Undergraduate student Allison Frew received the Bess T. Brownell Scholarship Award for the Fall 2009 semester.
8. Undergraduate student Jessica Ferey received the School of the Arts Dean's International Study Grant to participate in an Internship at a French Museum.
9. Undergraduate student Hayley Sykes received the School of the Arts Dean's Scholarship Award for the 2009-10 Academic year.
10. Undergraduate student Christine Gillett received the Maurice Bonds Scholarship Award for the Fall 2009 semester.

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