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Schedule
1:30-2:00 Welcome and Program Overview (Carol
Magee and Daniel Sherman)
2:00-2:30 Faculty/Student Introductions (short break at
Welcome to end)
2:30-2:45 Tour of the Visual Resources Library (JJ
UNC Art Bauer)
2:45-3:15 Tour of Sloane Art Library (Josh
History! Hockensmith)
3:15-3:45 Tour of Ackland Art Museum (Carolyn
Allmendinger)
3:45-4:00 Break
4-5:00 ASGO Happy Hour
• Art and Art History Department
Web Site:
https://art.unc.edu/courses-
Art History and-degrees/
at UNC • Graduate School Web Site:
• https://gradschool.unc.edu/ac
ademics/degreeprograms/
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• M.A.: 2 years, 36 credits,
culminates in a thesis
• M.A./ MLS or MIS: 3
years, 54 credits, joint
Art History program with School of
Graduate Library and Information
Degree Science, two theses
Programs at • Ph.D.: 3 to 5 semesters
UNC (30-48 credits) of course
work, typically 5 years
overall, culminates in a
dissertation
African, African-American, and
Diaspora
• John Bowles, Carol Magee, Victoria
Rovine, Lyneise Williams
Medieval and Early Modern
• Christoph Brachmann, Kathryn
Art History Desplanque, Tatiana String, Dorothy
Verkerk
Core Faculty Modern and Contemporary
• J.J. Bauer, Cary Levine, Carol Magee,
Daniel Sherman
Art of the Americas
• John Bowles, Maggie Cao, Eduardo
Douglas, Lyneise Williams
Adjunct Faculty
• Ackland Art Museum: Carolyn
Allmendinger, Peter Nisbet,
Elizabeth Manekin
• American Studies: Bernard Herman
• Classics: Hérica Valladares
12 courses (36 credit hours)
ARTH 850 (Methods)
5- 900 level graduate seminars
Degree 4 -900 level or mixed-level courses
Requirements, Writing Seminar (ARTH 991)
Thesis writing (ARTH 992)
MA *1 foreign language
May take two courses in other departments
*Language proficiency exams offered by the Graduate
School in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, OR
successful completion of fourth semester language course
Degree Requirements, PhD
(entering with MA)
10 courses (30 credit hours)
4-900 level graduate seminars
4- 900 level or mixed level courses
ARTH 991 (Writing Seminar)
ARTH 994 (Dissertation writing)
*2 foreign languages
May take two courses in other departments
*Language proficiency exams offered by the Graduate School in French,
German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, OR successful completion of fourth
semester language course
Degree Requirements, PhD
(entering without MA)
16 courses (48 credit hours)
8 - 700-900 level graduate seminars
5 - 900 level or mixed level courses
ARTH 850 (Methods)
ARTH 991 (Writing Seminar)
ARTH 994 (Dissertation writing)
*2 foreign languages
*Language proficiency exams offered by the Graduate School in French,
German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, OR successful completion of fourth
semester language course
Departmental funding:
• Special assistantships; Travel
funding; Opportunity for
advanced students to teach
their own course
Research Campus funding:
• Graduate School: Research
Funding funds, Dissertation Completion,
Travel funds
• Center for Global Initiatives
• Ackland Art Museum (Huntley
and Object-Based
Teaching Fellowships)
Additional Opportunities:
• FLAS Language Fellowships
• Medieval and Early Modern
Studies Program
Research • Center for European Studies
Funding • Graduate and Professional
Student Federation Travel
Grants
• Southern Oral History Project
• Women and Gender StudiesARTH 961: Seminar in Medieval Art Fall 2021 Topic: Ornament Dorothy Verkerk In contemporary society to be ornamental or decorative is a pejorative term and the person or object is relegated as someone or something not to be taken seriously. This is the result of an aesthetic dominated by the Greco/Roman, Renaissance and Modern western European notions and tastes that give primacy to the body, landscape and abstraction as well as the media of sculpture and painting. This seminar challenges this idea that ornament is superficial and looks at works of art and architecture where ornament is essential to the work of art and even the primary means of its agency.
ARTH985: Fashioning Power Graduate Seminar, Fall 2021/Dr. Williams Clothing and adornment play a crucial role in the construction and perpetuation of power in society. In this graduate seminar, fashion (clothing, accessories, footwear, and body adornment) we focus on fashion as the central cultural component for examining power. Exploring theories of power, material culture studies, cultural studies, and art history, we seek to understand the ways fashion and style serve as a cultural marker for the display and assertion and reinforcement of power. Selected readings will cover diverse historical periods and geographic locations as well as cultural groups and identity categories like sexuality, gender, race, and class. Students will have the opportunity to bring their areas of interest into the discussions and written analyses. Right: President Barack Obama, Kehinde Wiley. 2018. Oil on canvas. The National Portrait Gallery.
ARTH 984: Art and Technology
Fall 2021
Prof. Cary Levine
This seminar critically examines the relationships between technology and art in
modern culture, with particular emphasis on the implicit and explicit politics of
such relationships. We explore histories of art, aesthetics, scientific thinking, and
mechanical production as ongoing struggles over notions of social progress,
liberation, and domination.Other Courses Fall 2021 ARTH 850 Methods (Professor Desplanque) ARTH 473 Early Modern and Modern Decorative Arts (Dr. Bauer) Traces major historical developments in the decorative and applied arts, landscape design, and material culture of Western society from the Renaissance to the present. ARTH 488 Contemporary African Art (Professor Rovine) Examines modern and contemporary African art (1940s to the present) for Africans on the continent and abroad; topics include tradition, cultural heritage, colonialism, postcolonialism, local versus global, nationalism, gender, identity, diaspora. ARTH/HIST 514 Monuments and Memory (Professor Sherman) Explores the role of monuments in the formation of cultural memory and identity, both nationally and globally, chiefly in Europe and the U.S. Topics include the construction of identities in and through public spaces, commemoration of both singular individuals and ordinary citizens, and the appearance of new types of post-traumatic monuments in the 20th century.
• ARTH 466 History of the Illuminated Book
(Prof. Verkerk)
• ARTH 485 Art of the Harlem Renaissance
(Prof. Bowles)
• ARTH 588 Current Issues in Art (Prof.
Levine)
Spring 2022 • ARTH 957 Seminar in African Art: Art,
Courses Craft, Artifact: Classifying Objects &
People (Prof. Rovine)
(Preliminary • ARTH 971 Seminar in Renaissance Art:
German and Netherlandish Art, ca. 1475-
List) •
ca. 1550 (Prof. Brachmann)
ARTH 980 Seminar in Modern Art:
Mexican Muralism in Context (Prof.
Douglas)ARTH 852: Professional Development
Spring 2021
Vicki Rovine
This course focuses on the variety of
ways in which scholars in the arts
disseminate their research and market
themselves. Students will pursue a
semester-long project, structured to suit
their career goals. The class will focus
on communication, both written and
oral, with weekly analyses of readings,
student presentations, and short in-
class writing exercises. The semester
will incorporate several guest lectures
by art historians in a variety of careers,
conventional and unconventional. The
course will also address urgent issues in
the field, and in higher education/ the
art world more broadly, from the
impacts of the pandemic to ongoing
struggles over decolonization of the
arts and academia.Take courses at Duke's Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies: (https://aahvs.duke.edu/current-courses/2020Sprng) *Robertson Scholars bus offers free transport between UNC & Duke Centers, Programs, Departments and Institutes with Relevant Faculty, Research Resources, and Courses (not an exhaustive list!): Centers: Departments and Programs: o African Studies Center o African, African American and o Carolina Asia Center Diaspora Studies o Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies o American Studies o Center for Faculty Excellence o Women and Gender Studies o Center for European Studies o Program in Medieval and Early o Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East Modern Studies. European Studies Institutes: o Center for the Study of the American South o Institute of African American o Center for Urban and Regional Studies Research and the Black o Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture Communities Conference and History and the Stone Center Library for o Institute for the Study of the Black Culture and History. Americas
Departmental Life
Art Students Graduate Organization (ASGO)
Workshops on:
• Interviewing
• Syllabus writing
• Grant writing
• Alt-Ac Career Panel
Leadership Opportunities:
•ASGO Officers, including Faculty Liaison
•Plan Annual Symposium
•Departmental Life
Social Events:
• Drinks at TRU
• Craft Night
• Zoom CocktailsRecent Department Events
COMING SOON!
The 2021 Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
of Art in Early Modern Europe
Form, Matter, and the Making
The Designs of Nature:
Rebecca Zorach
Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University
Virtual Lecture Series: 5:30pm This series of lectures explores the idea of the agency and
COMING SOON! March 22, 2021 | 5:30pm March
creativity of a sometimes personified "Nature" in late medieval
and early modern Europe. Often seeming to operate with
30, 2021 | 5:30pm April 7, 2021 surprising independence from the Christian God, Nature was
https://go.unc.edu/Ld6x4 | 5:30pm April 15, 2021
understood as both a creator of artists and a powerful generator
of images that served as inspiration to those same artists. This
Department of Art and Art History series of lectures traces a set of ideas that shaped the work of
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill artists and art theorists, scientists and theologians in both
Register Here: http://go.unc.edu/Ld6x4 northern and southern Europe, looking especially closely at the
problem of "figured stones": stones (some fossils, some not) that
seemed to bear mysterious images "made by Nature.”The Graduate
Student Center
Provides an intellectually stimulating
and rich learning environment
that builds a strong interdisciplinary
graduate community.
Sample events:
• Tips and Tricks Using MSWord to
Format Your Dissertation
• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive Teaching
in the Community College Setting
• Effective Mentoring
• What every Graduate Student should
know about using LinkedIn –
• Writing a Diversity Statement
• Writing Effective Teaching Statements• Black Graduate and Professional
Students Association
• Black Student Movement
• Carolina Black Caucus
Campus • Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS
Communities • Carolina Women’s Center
• Initiative for Minority Excellence
and • LGBTQ Center
Affinity Groups • Southern Historical & Southern
Folklife Collections, Wilson
Library
• Triangle African Studies
Hub (TASH)
• Womxn of Worth InitiativeClockwise from top left: Ackland Art Museum; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University; North Carolina Museum of Art; Reynolda House of American Art; Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston Salem; Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library, High Point; Mint Museum, Charlotte
• The arts are for everyone. •Creative industries drive economic growth. • The arts create and share new meaning. •Experiencing wonder sparks exploration. • Every space can be a creative space.
Thank • Daniel Sherman you! dsherman@email.unc.edu
Christoph Brachmann Mary H. Cain Distinguished Professor European Art 1100-1650, European Architecture My research focuses on medieval and early modern art, especially on artistic and cultural exchange between France and Germany, including the aspect of art and (proto-)national identity-building. I have recently been working on a monumental Entombment group in Eastern France (above). This very prominent donation will be studied and identified as an anti-Protestant monument in the context of the religious controversy between Catholics and Protestants. While on leave in spring 2021 I am also working on a book-length project on court art under Henri II of France (r 1547- 1559). Ligier Richier, Entombment, ca. 1560, stone, St. Mihiel, Church of St. Étienne
Lyneise Williams
Associate Professor of Art History (PhD Yale 2004)
Dr. Williams is the author of Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture,
1852-1932, (February 2019, Bloomsbury Academic Publishers), which
examines how Parisians’ visual language of Latin Americans in popular
imagery inextricably links blackness to Latin American identity beginning in
the mid-nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. Williams
focuses on shifts in Latinizing visuality in three case studies focusing on the
imagery of Cuban circus entertainer, Chocolat, representations of
Panamanian World Bantamweight Champion boxer, Alfonso Teofilo Brown,
and paintings of Black Uruguayans by Pedro Figari, a Uruguayan artist
during his residence in Paris. In her current book project, Williams explores
the intersection of glamour, sports, technology, fashion, masculinity, and
the black male athletic body in 1920s and 30s Paris.
Williams is the founder and director of VERA (Visual Electronic
Representations in the Archive) Collaborative, an interdisciplinary center
advocates for culturally-responsible archival practices that address the
significant erasures in visual, material, and historical representation
disproportionately affecting communities of color. Williams presented her
VERA Collaborative research at the Library of Congress, the National Park
Service, The British Library, The National Archives (UK), The Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and The Alan Turing Institute. VERA
Collaborative is one of the founding co-partners of the Advanced
Information Collaboratory (AIC). VERA partners with the UNC Chapel Hill
Libraries, the Maryland State Archives, the National Park Service, Kings
College London Digital Humanities Department, and the Institute of
Museums and Library Services (IMLS).
Above: Dr. Williams and her 2019 book, Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932.Dorothy Verkerk Associate Professor Late Antiquity and early medieval Ireland My current research is focused on the non-biblical iconography on the Irish High crosses such as cats, disembodied heads, and cat-headed snakes. For example, Muirdach’s Cross, 10th c. CE, seen above.
Ackland Art Museum
Collections
• 19,000 works of art
• Tremendous geographic range, including art from Africa,
Asia, Europe, North America, and South America
• Chronological range of 5,000 years, from antiquity through
contemporary art
• Media include painting, sculpture, ceramics, drawings,
prints, photography, video, digital media
Unidentified artist, Mughal, Jahangir period, Nam June Paik, South Korean, active in the United Valentin de Boulogne, French, 1591-1632, St.
Perforated Screen, c. 1605-27, sandstone, 42 1/8 States, 1932-2006, Eagle Eye, 1996, antique slide John the Evangelist, c. 1622-1623, oil on canvas,
× 40 9/16 × 3 3/4 in. (107 × 103 × 9.5 cm). projector, aluminum, computer keyboards, eye 38 5/16 × 52 15/16 in. (97.3 × 134.5 cm). The
Special Acquisition Fund, 2019.16.3. chart, neon, 9 five-inch televisions, 2 nine-inch William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund,
televisions, dvd player, dvd, 66 11/16 x 86 3/8 x 24 63.4.1.
1/2 in. (169.4 x 219.4 x 62.2 cm). Ackland Fund,
99.8.Opportunities for
Graduate Students
• Work at the Ackland
• Paid Fellowships and Internships
offered during the academic year
and the summer
• Focus on teaching, research, and
other aspects of museum work
• Teach at the Ackland
• Use the collection and exhibitions
to support your own teaching
• Participate in workshops on
methods of teaching with art
objects
• Research at the Ackland
• Curators and curatorial files are
available for research
consultations
•Volunteer at the Ackland
• Belong at the Ackland
•Volunteer docents teach K-12
• Student memberships are free
and community groups in the galleries
for UNC-Chapel Hill studentsASGO
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