Inaugural David C. and Thelma G. Driskell Award for Creative Excellence
We welcome submissions from emerging scholars and artists who will create new artistic or scholarly work that furthers the Driskell Center’s mission.
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Lifelong Learners Step Up to Enhance Graduate Students’ Success
August 16, 2021Gift from Helene Stein '74 and husband Michael '76 reflect shared love for art and travel.
Making Space for Black Art in Academic Art History
February 25, 2021Through her teaching, research and beyond, Jordana Moore Saggese is working to undo the ‘colonialist and white supremacist logic’ that has pervaded the field of art history.
Professor Jason Kuo edits volume of essays on Chinese calligraphy and painting
February 18, 2021Professor Jason Kuo recently published a volume of essays he edited that pays homage to and clarifies the critical role played by a generation of post-World War II scholars in shaping American understanding of Chinese calligraphy and painting.
Maryl B. Gensheimer Receives 2020 Arlt Award in the Humanities
February 10, 2021The historian of Roman art and archaeology was honored for her 2018 book that analyzes the decoration of the ancient Baths of Caracalla.
Gabrielle Tillenburg curates exhibition Past Process at Strathmore Hall
January 24, 2021Gabrielle Tillenburg curates exhibition Past Process at Strathmore Hall
Under direction of Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese, BLACKNESS centered for first time ever in current edition of Art Journal
January 20, 2021As the current Editor-in-Chief of the Art Journal Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese has just released the very first issue in the 80-year history of the journal focused explicitly and exclusively on BLACKNESS.
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Three Undergraduates Selected for Digital Poster Session at 2021 CAA Conference
January 15, 2021Three undergraduates in our Department have distiguished themselves with submissions to the 2021 Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA) that were accepted for a digital poster session during the February 10-13 meeting.
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Raino Isto, as part of Editorial Collective, edits special online issue of ARTMargins dedicated to Art and Race in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
January 12, 2021As part of the ARTMargins Online editorial collective, Dr. Isto has just completed a two-month sequenced release of articles the group edited in a special issue dedicated to Art and Race in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
Professor Jordana Moore Saggese receives ISRCA award from University Provost
December 16, 2020Congratulations to Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese for receiving from the Provost an IRSCA award
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Patricia Ortega-Miranda curates online exhibition of the digital work of Glenda León, which is reviewed in the Washington Post
August 04, 2020Patricia Ortega-Miranda, a PhD student in the Department who is a Graduate Assistant in the University of Maryland Art Gallery, has curated a fasc