News & Events
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Etruscan excavation at Poggio Colla receives grant
The Etruscan excavation at Poggio Colla, directed by Professor Greg Warden, received a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to support the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project’s conservation program. The grant supplements other funding that allows the project to bring over two head conservators (Chris White, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, and Batyah Shtrum, Metropolitan Museum) to work on excavated material, teach conservation theory and practice on the field school, and supervise two conservation interns: Ariel O’Conner and Jennifer Dennis both in the Master’s Program in Conservation at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.
Print Exhibition at the DMA prepared by SMU Art History Undergrads
Albrecht Dürer and Ferdinand Columbus, an exhibition now on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, was prepared as part of an undergraduate seminar on early modern collecting taught at SMU during spring 2008 by Assistant Professor Lisa Pon. The students in this seminar visited the DMA to examine first hand the prints by internationally renowned German artist, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). They also studied the collecting activities of Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539), son of the famous explorer, who in 1502 had traveled to the New World with his father. Ferdinand Columbus, an avid print collector, once owned impressions of the six Dürers displayed in this exhibition. Each student prepared the wall text for the prints by researching the subjects depicted, the significance of the print in Dürer’s oeuvre, and the entries given in Columbus’s detailed inventory. This exhibition is on view through November 2008.
Student, Faculty and Alumni updates
Professor P. Gregory Warden has just been appointed University Distinguished Professor of Art History.
Lisa Pon, Assistant Professor of Art History, has been appointed a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery for 2008.
Congratulations to Ali Alibhai (2008) who has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to Morocco and has been admitted, fully funded, to Harvard’s Ph.D. program in Near Eastern Languages.
Jessica Weiss (MA 2007) has been accepted with funding to UT Austin’S Ph.D. Program in Art History.
Dana Rowland, Art History major, was selected for a summer internship in the Modern and Contemporary Curatorial Department of the Philadelphia Art Museum. She was also offered an internship with the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Stephanie Brown (Art History, 2007) was accepted into NYU’s Visual Arts Administration Program for Fall 2008.
Emily Ewbank (Art History 2008) and Stephanie Brown (Art History 2007) will exhibit their photographs of Polish Holocaust sites at Grey Matters Gallery in Dallas in May 2008.
Kathryn Millirons (Art History) was accepted into Sotheby’s MA Program in Art History.
The Afterlife of Forms: A Symposium in Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr, February 23-24 2008
Please join students, friends, and colleagues of Annemarie Weyl Carr, University Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University, as we celebrate her career with presentations from colleagues and former students representing three decades of influential teaching and scholarship. Read more.
Ann Bermingham to direct seminar for students at the Dallas Museum of Art
Ann Bermingham, Professor of Art History at UC Sanata Barbara and one of the foremost scholars of 18th- and 19th-century British Art, will direct a pro-seminar for advanced undergraduate and graduate students at the Dallas Museum of Art on April 28, 2008 on J.M.W. Turner. The museum is host this Spring to the largest and most comprehensive Turner retrospective in the U.S. The seminar, a collaboration between SMU and the DMA, will be held in the galleries with Professor Bermingham and area curators and scholars.
Student wins internship to the Chinati Foundation at Marfa
This year we sent a group of ten students to Marfa for The Chinati Foundation's annual "Open House" in October. For one student, Emily Ewbank, it was a particularly valuable experience. She has just been offered one of their summer internships.
Dallas Museum of Art Honors Art History Assistant Professor
Adam Herring, associate professor of Art History at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, has been named the winner of the 2006 Vasari Award by the Dallas Museum of Art for his book Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, A.D. 600-800: A Poetics of Line (Cambridge University Press). This year marks the 21st presentation of the Vasari Award, which is given to an author working in Texas whose book provides insight into works of art or aspects of art history and theory that enriches the understanding of visual arts. Read more.
Art History Professor Organizes Venetian Books Conference
Lisa Pon, an assistant professor in the Division of Art History at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, recently organized a two-day international conference in Venice, Italy, that considered the city’s books as one of its principal achievements. Read more.
Art History Professor Honored as One of Nation’s Best
It’s one thing for a professor to be hailed by his or her department for singular academic or research accomplishments, or for the accolades bestowed upon his or her students. But it’s another thing altogether to be recognized as the best in a particular field on a national scale.
Such was the scenario for Annemarie Carr, the University Distinguished Professor for the Division of Art History, who recently was named by the College Art Association of America as the 2006 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award. Read more.
