History of Art graduate student Anna Moblard-Meier brings her deep study of Japanese art to Special Collections at Bryn Mawr College, guiding visitors through several of the College’s Japanese art objects.
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Prof. Lisa Saltzman (History of Art) delivers keynote address at UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium
Professor Lisa Saltzman will deliver the keynote address at the 48th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium. This year’s conference is on the the theme of “(re)mediation” and invites papers from graduate students exploring themes of remedy, reworking, or reuse as well as questions of artistic medium and attendant technology.
Professor Saltzman will present research from her new book about the “afterlife” of photography in contemporary culture, Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.
Lori Felton (PhD candidate, History of Art) publishes essay on Egon Schiele
A new exhibition of works by the famous Austrian artist Egon Schiele has just opened at the Neue Galerie in New York. “Egon Schiele: Portraits” is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the enigmatic and distinctive portraiture of the artist; it was organized by Schiele scholar Dr. Alessandra Comini.
Bryn Mawr PhD candidate Lori Felton penned an essay for the exhibition catalogue, entitled “Seeing the Self-Seers: The Viewer’s Role in Egon Schiele’s Early Double Self-Portraiture.”
The exhibition is on view now through January 19, 2015.
GSAS alumna named to Widener board of trustees
Sophia Wisniewska (M.A., Ph.D., Russian) has been appointed to the board of trustees of Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. Wisniewska received her Ph.D. in 1992, completing a dissertation, Narrative Structure in the Work of Tatjana Tolstaja, under the direction of Professor Dan E. Davidson.
After completing her PhD, Wisniewski held teaching positions at Penn State, Temple University and Bryn Mawr College. She served as chancellor of Penn State Brandywine from 2005 to 2013, when she became regional chancellor of the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.