Summer 2018 Faculty Updates
Fragmentos para una historia del olvido/Fragments for a history of displacement, detail shot, artwork by Daniela Rivera, photo by Samara Pearlstein
Professor David Olsen painted a number of murals on campus this summer. His murals in Green Hall and Founders were profiled in this Daily Shot article. His art project van, Rally, was also featured this August in an issue of Interior Design magazine.
Professor Kimberly Cassibry had an article published in the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal this August. Spectacular Translucence: The Games in Glass looks at mold-blown glass cups featuring images of famous gladiators and charioteers between 50-80 AD in Rome. The article is open source and available to read for free online.
Professor Nikki Greene will present her essay, Habla LAMADRE: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carrie Mae Weems, and Black Feminist Performance, at the "New Perspectives in Portraiture" symposium at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. The two-day symposium will be held on Sept. 20-21, 2018, and is free to attend, although registration is required. See the link here for much more information.
Professor Andy Mowbray had artwork in a number of group exhibitions this summer, including Out of Our Closet with Lamontagne Gallery in Boston and PLACE(HOLDER) at Gallery 263 in Cambridge.
Professor Alexandria Smith has paintings up right now in the Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night, an exhibition at Mass MoCA. This summer she was also an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
Professor Will Van Beckum (our new photography professor for 2018-19) spent a month this summer teaching photography workshops to students in Monterrey, Mexico, in partnership with the Museo de Arts Contemporáneo de Monterrey.
Professor Daniela Rivera will have a new artwork on display at the Davis Museum this fall as part of their Windows Invitational series. Fragmentos para una historia del olvido/Fragments for a history of displacement is a sculptural installation addressing immigration and the way we relate to our environments. The piece includes an 8-channel audio artwork by music Professor Jenny Johnson.
August 29, 2018
