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About curators & lecturers, Fall 2011 New Images, New Techniques | The Dancer and the Dance | Figure Study New Images, New Techniques Matthew Affron Matthew Affron has organized and co-organized numerous exhibitions at UVaM, including Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris, 2009; With the Line of Daumier, 2009; Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms, 2007; and American Collage, 2004. Among his current projects is Joseph Cornell and Surrealism, an exhibition in collaboration with the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2013-14. Affron's publications deal with diverse aspects of modern art in the first half of the 20 century. He has taught at the University of Virginia since 1996. He earned his Ph.D. in art history at Yale University in 1995, and his B.A. in art history in 1985 at Brown University. About the exhibition > The Dancer and the Dance Stephen Margulies Stephen Margulies was born in Baltimore in 1945 and received degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia. He also studied at the Maryland Art Institute and taught at the University of Maryland. His mother was a noted Baltimore painter. He himself is an artist, essayist and poet, as well as having been for many years Curator of Works on Paper at the University of Virginia Art Museum, where he has also worked in many other capacities. He currently works on curatorial projects for the Museum as a volunteer. He has often collaborated with writers, scientists, performers and artists in connection with his exhibitions. About the exhibition > Figure Study Melissa Ragain Melissa Ragain is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Virginia, where she earned her MA in Art History in 2006. She has written for ARTLIES, Criticism, and Inform magazines. She has been an intern for the Zimmerli Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Gallery of Art. She was the 2009–2010 Luzak-Lindner Curatorial Fellow at the University of Virginia Art Museum, and a Core Critical Studies Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2010-11. About the exhibition > Variety, Archeology, and Ornament Cammy Brothers Cammy Brothers earned a BA from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, an MA from the Courtauld Institute, University of London, and her PhD from Harvard University. Her book, Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture, is published by Yale University Press, and was the 2010 winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Brothers has been the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the American Academy in Rome, the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts where she was a Senior Fellow in 2010-11.
Michael J. Waters Michael J. Waters is a PhD Candidate and Erwin Panofsky Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Before coming to New York, he received a BFA in art history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MA in architectural history from the University of Virginia. He is currently working on a dissertation about materials, materiality, and spolia in Italian Renaissance architecture in addition continuing his research on sixteenth-century drawings and engravings of architectural details. This past year he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and has also received fellowships from the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and the Getty Research Institute. He also recently completed his term on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians, and has presented papers at the Society’s annual meeting as well as that of the Renaissance Society of America. About the exhibition > Tyler Jo Smith Tyler Jo Smith is Assistant Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in the McIntire Department of Art at U.Va. A specialist in the visual and material cultures of the ancient Greco-Roman world, her book entitled Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art is about to be published by Oxford University Press. Her particular areas of research and interest include Greek pottery, ancient religion and performance, and the history of collecting. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Turkey, Sicily, and England, and has been a faculty lecturer for Cavalier Travels programs in Greece and Turkey. About the talk > Carmenita Higginbotham Prior to teaching at University of Virginia, Carmenita Higginbotham completed fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She also participated in exhibition projects in both New York and Washington D.C., including Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project, and The Art of Romare Bearden. About the talk >
Robert Mintz A curator of at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Robert Mintz earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where his doctoral research explored the paintings of the eighteenth-century Japanese poet and painter Yosa Buson. His most recent publication, Japanese Cloisonné Enamels accompanied a 2010 exhibition of the same name. Today his research focuses on issues arising from the interrelationship of Chinese and Japanese works of art with an emphasis on products of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has been a visiting professor of art history at Central Washington University, adjunct professor of Asian art history at Seattle University, and visiting professor of Japanese art history at the University of Washington. He currently teaches courses in the history of Chinese and Japanese art on an adjunct basis for Towson University. About the talk >
Jay Xu Dr. Xu came to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where he is director, in June 2008 with a rich variety of international museum experience. He earned his MA and PhD in early Chinese art and archaeology from Princeton University, and began his curatorial career at the Shanghai Museum. He has been Chairman of the Department of Asian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Curator of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum, and Research Fellow at the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Xu lectures extensively on Asian art, including contemporary art. His professional awards include the prestigious Shimada Prize for Outstanding Publication in East Asian Art for Art of the Houma Foundry, and a George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award of the Art Libraries Society of North America for Ancient Sichuan: Treasures of a Lost Civilization, a landmark exhibition that he curated. About the talk > |
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