Steven M. Brent, a member of the “New, New Painters” who earned his MFA degree at UNC-Chapel Hill, died Dec. 4, 2020. A link to his obituary is below.  https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/starnewsonline/obituary.aspx?n=steven-m-brent&pid=197552620

You can read the interview here: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-joy-tirade-visual-artist/  joy tirade is the artist name of Joy Meyer. She holds an MFA from UNC, Chapel Hill. Previously, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from University of Virginia with a BA in Studio + … Continued

Greetings! Along with best wishes for 2021, I wanted to send along a few quick updates. 1) The wonderful lecture by Michele Frederick about curating the Reflections on Light show on view now (and also virtually) at the North Carolina Museum of … Continued

Congratulations to Katherine Calvin, Ph.D. ’20, who has received the UNC-Chapel Hill Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Humanities and Fine Arts for her dissertation “Antiquity and Empire: The Construction of History in Western European Representations of the … Continued

Brightwork Series presents: Çukurova Plain by Ayla Gizlice Thursday, November 5 – Sunday, December 20 Ayla Gizlice is a Turkish-American artist born in Raleigh. Çukurova Plain examines presentations of Osmaniye, her father’s hometown, in her own American one. The work serves as an introduction … Continued

Congratulations to MFA candidate Krysta Sa, who has received The Center for European Studies 2021 Jean Monnet Center of Excellence EU Research Award for her project “Ancestral Soak: Sea Bathing in the European Union.”

Greetings! I know it’s been a while. I’ve succumbed to the lure of updating folks via twitter and instagram (those tempting links are at the very bottom), but here is some recent news all in one place and only slightly … Continued

Gesche Würfel used her 2019 Center for European Studies JMCE EU Faculty Travel and Research Award partly to develop a new course, ARTS 290 Special Topics: Exploring the City through Visual Arts. Her students shared artwork from two class projects. … Continued

Sometimes our Art History faculty get to do research on topics a little bit outside their usual specializations, and this can turn into an interesting and broader view of the field–one example is Medievalist Dorothy Verkerk’s recent essay for Religion … Continued

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I hope this email finds you relatively well given these uncertain times. I would like to draw your attention to two current (online) exhibitions at the Art Museum of the Americas and The FENCE in Durham and two upcoming … Continued