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The Department of Art & Art History is a dynamic center for research, teaching, and learning. Their mission statement—make/frame/reveal—encapsulates the history and practice sides: they celebrate and embrace experiential strategies, contextual understanding, diverse viewpoints, new insights, and innovative approaches.
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Processing Systems: Numbers by Sherrill Roland opens at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on September 19, 2024, and runs through January 12, 2025. The exhibition features artworks, works in progress, and research materials by Sherrill Roland (b. … Read more ..read more
UNC Art and Art History
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Mark Anthony Brown Jr. (MFA 2024!) has a solo exhibition that just opened up at Artspace in Raleigh, as a culmination of his residency there this past summer. The exhibition, Sing About Me, will be showing until September 29th with a reception on … Read more ..read more
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Sarah Walker received a BFA degree from the California College of the Arts and an MFA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Walker has attended the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center of Creative Arts, and … Read more ..read more
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Here is Ethan’s latest update: Studio News Summer 24 He has a solo show at Winston Wachter in NYC coming up in September–check it out if you are there ..read more
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Congratulations to all of our graduates of the Class of 2024! Here are a few images of the celebrations that were held in the Friday Center in May ..read more
UNC Art and Art History
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Congratulations to several recent Art History alumni who have been appointed to new positions:
PhD alumna Alex Ziegler will be starting at the University of Wyoming in a hybrid position in education at their Art Museum and an assistant professorship in their Department of Visual Art.
PhD alumna Miranda Elston will be starting at Coastal Carolina University with an assistant professorship in their Department of Visual Arts.
MA/MSLS alumna Callie Beattie will be starting a position at the Library of Congress as an archivist in the Rare Book and Special Collections division ..read more
UNC Art and Art History
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Alice Ann Driscoll passed away peacefully at her home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on December 22, 2023. She was born December 2, 1941, to Daniel J Driscoll and Alice (Root) in Austin, Texas. Her childhood years were spent between Fort Worth and Austin, Texas where her father Dan Driscoll pursued his architectural career. Ann was especially proud of the Austin landmarks that Dan designed with his partner Delmar Groos, among these the Deep Eddy and Barton Springs Bathhouses.
Growing up Ann attended O’Henry Junior High and Austin High, where she served as the vice president of the student council, and ..read more
UNC Art and Art History
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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
UNC Art and Art History
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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
UNC Art and Art History
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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