UNC’s website features a wonderful story on Art History PhD Jennifer Wu (2023) about the challenges of being a non-traditional student and commuting back and forth between Chapel Hill and Washington, D.C. while completing graduate school. Read it here: Lifelong learner finds personal renaissance ..read more

Martin Wannam will be part of an online panel discussion from a group exhibition which will be on view until May 10, 2024 at the 1st Floor Gallery at 20 Cooper Square, New York City. Please join him on May 2 at 6PM for an online panel featuring the nine artists from the current exhibition “Re-Collections” in conversation with curator Daniel Arturo Almeida. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/803474131757?aff=oddtdtcreator You can also read more about the exhibition and artists and curator at the exhibition website ..read more

CREATIVE ROOTS: QATANUM EXPRESSIONS (BTS Presentation) Xe’il ech Txumu’n: Xhk’a’tnaquil Qatanum SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 6 – 7PM ROOM 3408 – Frank Porter Graham Student Union (UNC-Chapel Hill) Join Brenda Palacios Rodriguez (BFA Honors 2024), the director and producer of the documentary film CREATIVE ROOTS: QATANUM EXPRESSIONS, for an open discussion about her film in-production and her Awakatek (Qatanum) Mayan community roots. Learn about her documentation process, behind-the-scenes work, and lessons learned in production. “This project shares the story of my Awakatek c ..read more

Congratulations to Molly English for being announced as a recipient of the 2024 Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. The MFA Dadelus Awards are given annually to final-year students who are graduating from an MFA degree program in the United States. Four fellowships are awarded every year, each carrying a stipend of $15,000. Molly English’s tapestries use strategies of narrative tapestry for a reimagining of storytelling through fiber. English refers to Western tapestry’s history of justifying state and religious dominance both in form and content, while ..read more

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Victoria Rovine, professor of art history, as the next director of Carolina Public Humanities. She begins her new role on July 1. Professor Rovine has been a member of the department of art and art history faculty since 2014, joining the Carolina community after positions at the University of Florida and the University of Iowa. She is also currently director of the UNC African Studies Center, a position she wraps up at the end of this semester. She has had a long association with Carolina Public Humanities programming, having given a number of lectur ..read more

Congratulations to the following Department of Art and Art History students who were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa this spring: Isabelle Lilly Anderson, art history minor Louise Celeste Covington, art history minor Lauren Ashley Flach, art history minor Lauren Sage Guillemette, studio art major Andrew Robert Knotts, studio art major Sydney Kates Martin, studio art major Toni-Ann Ocloo, studio art minor Glorianna R Tarlton, studio art minor ..read more

I’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE…CURATED BY SHABEZ JAMAL 29 MARCH – 5 MAY 2024 WORKS EXHIBITION TEXT Sibyl is pleased to present I’ve been here before…, a group exhibition curated by multidisciplinary artist and scholar Shabez Jamal (b. 1992, St. Louis,  MO). I’ve been here before… is a group exhibition that explores the recursive nature of photography through the lenses of ten emerging Black artists in the United States. The exhibition examines the relationship between the Black community and the photograph and how, through interactions with the medium, Black people ..read more

So much has changed for me and the world since my last update. We are now a wild family of five, our amazing kids (Corbin 7, Tessa 4, and Sam 2) have kept me very busy. I love being thier stay at home dad while mom (Angie) serves our city of Charlotte, NC and beyond as a super pediatrician! Below is info about some upcoming events. I am hitting the studio hard and will be sharing new work and updates on a more routine basis. Thanks for sticking around! Exhibitions Removed, Compiler Pop-Up Series, Barcelona Edition, Nou-Studios Barcelona, Spain   I’m t ..read more

Congratulations to PhD Alumnus Daniel Ackermann, who has just been named director of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the house museum for American decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.  You can find the full announcement at https://www.mfah.org/press/mfah-appoints-daniel-kurt-ackermann-director-bayou-bend-collection-gardens. Daniel was previously the curator for the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem ..read more

The Florida State University Art History faculty and graduate students will host the 40th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium on March 1–2, 2024, on their main campus in Tallahassee, FL. Rachel Ciampoli will be presenting on “‘The Indigenous Posey of the Soil:’ Eastman Johnson’s Maple Sugar Paintings and the Aesthetics of Erasure.” Between 1861 and 1865, American genre painter Eastman Johnson produced roughly twenty-five oil sketches in preparation for an ultimately unfinished master work depicting New Englanders engaged in the harvest and production of maple sugar. Al ..read more