As a part of his graduate curatorial internship, M.A. alumnus Alex Jones will be presenting at LACE in Spring/Summer 2021 with Kevin Bernard Moultrie Daye PARABLE 003, “an exhibition that aims to describe nothing short of an entirely new and increasingly achievable future. Inspired by themes from Octavia Butler’s iconic Parable of the Sower trilogy, their project expresses black liberation, “not as a struggle, but as a place.” And in PARABLE 003, they plan to show, in some ways quite literally, what that place looks like, and how the very act of placemaking itself can be a revolution.” You can read more about their work and the upcoming exhibition here: https://www.laweekly.com/los-angeles-contemporary-exhibitions-history-the-future-now-on-hollywood-blvd/

UPDATE: The article on Viking Art is now available here: https://smarthistory.org/viking-art/

Congratulations to PhD candidate Andrea Snow, who was recently awarded funding from the Samual H. Kress Foundation to write an article on Viking Art for Smarthistory. Andrea’s work will be the first to cover medieval Scandinavian art and culture for the site.

Congratulations again to Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Wu, who has received a three-month residential scholar award at the Yale Center for British Art (in addition to the Paul Mellon Centre Junior Fellowship already awarded). she will also be using the museums and library collections at Yale University for her research.

Congratulations to this year’s departmental recipients of Chancellor’s Awards: Carolyn Bucknall received the Undergraduate Prize in Art History and Caroline Allen the Alexander Julian Prize. You can read their personal statements here: https://chancellorsawards.unc.edu/2020-recipients/

Taylor Hunkins has written an extensive article on Slum-TV in Nairobi, which can be accessed here: https://africanah.org/slum-tv-in-nairobi/. Great work Taylor!

Congratulations to Brantly Moore, who has been awarded the UNC Graduate School’s Werner P. Friederich Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship (for study in the humanities with travel to Switzerland, if possible) and Summer Research Fellowship.

Read about Williams’ VERA Collaborative project to help inform decision-makers about the historical implications of digital reproduction methods, particularly the effect on portraying people of color, here: https://magazine.college.unc.edu/news-article/preserving-visual-history/

Let’s examine the Petit Trianon, a small retreat in the gardens of the palace at Versailles created by Louis XV as a portrait. What does this home tell us about this powerful king? Kevin Justus, PhD (UNC-CH 2002), is an independent art historian, writer, and musician. He specializes in and publishes on the patronage of Louis XV and Versailles. Although based in Tucson, he works yearly at the Research Center at Versailles creating a monumental photographic database to assist in scholarly research. He is a Chateaubriand scholar and French Ambassadorial Laureate.

https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_justus_phd_architecture_as_portraiture?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Congratulations to PhD candidate Jennifer Wu, who has just received a three-month Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Junior Fellowship for Spring 2020.

Duke Arts Visiting Artist Series
“Manga 4.5: Building Comics with Tatami Mats and Stones”
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
6-7 pm, A266, Bay 10, Smith Warehouse, Durham, NC