BYU Art History &

2012 YEAR IN REVIEW

The  Art  History  &  Curatorial  Studies  program  experienced  a  year  of  many  highs  and  lows  in  2012.  We  were  thrilled  to  have  a  record  number  of  students  receive  prestigious  university  awards  and  to  offer  two  study  abroad  programs  last  year.  Also,  the  number  of  majors  increased  significantly  and  we  have  continued  to  develop  programs  such  as  the  business  track  and  internships  to  enhance  our  students’  professional  development.  We  were  also  happy  to  welcome  two  visiting  professors,  David  Amott  and  Kate  Lemay,  who  have  contributed  much  to  our  program  since  joining  us  in  the  fall,  and  to  provide  opportunities  for  students  to  hear  from  experts  in  the  field  outside  of  BYU.  However,  we  have  had  much  to  mourn  this  year  as  well.  This  fall,  we  were  deeply  saddened  by  the  passing  of  one  of  our  undergraduate  students,  Alyssa  Isom,  as  well  as  our  beloved  and  long-­‐‑time  faculty  member,  Mark  Hamilton,  and  are  mourning  their  loss.  The  following  pages  in  this  newsletter  offer  a  review  of  these  and  other  developments.    We  are  excited  about  the  upcoming  year.  Professors  Jensen  and  Swensen  will  be  leading  a  jam-­‐‑packed  study  abroad  program  to  Europe.  Professor  Peacock’s  service  as  the  acting  director  of  the  Center  for  the  Study  of  Europe  is  facilitating  myriad  opportunities  for  our  students.  Under  Professor  Johnson’s  leadership,  the  graduate  program  continues  to  flourish.  We  are  developing  new  curriculum  and  continually  looking  for  ways  in  which  to  enhance  Art  History  &  Curatorial  Studies  at  BYU.    We  truly  do  love  to  hear  from  our  alumni  and  friends  of  our  program.  Please  send  your  personal  and  professional  news  to  the  program  coordinator,  Professor  Jensen  (heather_jensen  @byu.edu).  May  art  and  art  history  continue  to  play  a  meaningful  part  of  your  life,  and  best  wishes  to  you  for  a  happy  and  fulfilling  year.    Heather  Belnap  Jensen    

Introduction: Note from the Program Coordinator

IN THE LETTER 2 Professor C. Mark

Hamilton: A Tribute 4 Student Tribute

5 Faculty Updates

8 Study Abroad Report

10 Student News

18 Events

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Café in Paris, Photos: Robert Doisneau and Sarah Carrigan

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Professor Emeritus C. Mark Hamilton, born in 1942 and the founder of the art history program at Brigham Young University, passed away on November 13, 2012, following a short illness. He will be remembered by many as an important influence in their lives stemming from his various roles of friend, mentor, teacher, colleague, bishop, scholar, husband, and father.

While working as a seminary teacher, Mark decided to pursue graduate work in art history, earning an M.A. from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in art history with a focus on architectural history. He was hired at BYU in 1974 to start the art history program within the old Department of Art. As the first professor with a Ph.D. in art history to teach at BYU, Mark had to build the program from the ground up, teaching the full range of classes from Roman art through Modern. Slides were used to teach art history then, but there was no money in the department budget then to pay for them, so Mark purchased them with money from his own pocket. Mark worked hard at building up the program, overseeing the creation of the art history major, followed by the creation of the master's program. He lobbied for additional art history faculty and encouraged some of the first art history majors at BYU to go on to graduate school and complete doctorates. Steve Bule who taught in our program for 14 years before moving on to Utah Valley University, Martha Peacock, and myself were all inspired by Mark to earn our degrees; he then encouraged the university to hire us. In this he continued his role as mentor but also became our very good friend.

Our hiring allowed Mark to focus on teaching his passions - American, English, and Modern architectural history and western Medieval art. He also wrote two important books: The Salt Lake Temple: A Monument to a People (Salt Lake City, 1983) and Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning, published by Oxford University Press in 1995, as well as several articles on architectural history.

It was obvious that Mark really cared about people: every time someone entered his office a booming greeting would reverberate off the walls of our suite of offices. He would spend hours talking to any student or colleague about any topic they wanted. Each Monday morning during football and basketball seasons, he would greet me with a loud "How 'bout them Cougs?!' - whether or not BYU had won - and then dissect the game. The first time I met him was my first day in

Professor C. Mark

Hamilton: A Tribute

by Mark J. Johnson

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Never did we hear one complaint about his

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one of his classes back in 1977 in which he amazed me by memorizing the names of all 32 of us students in that first hour - and never forgetting a name thereafter. This he would continue to do at the beginning of all of his classes for the rest of his career. I soon figured out that he did this, not as a trick to show off, but because it was his way of showing that he actually did care about each and every individual.

In the late 1990s Mark suffered a series of heart attacks, which led to him receiving a heart transplant in 2001. In the months leading up to the transplant, he was facing the possibility of an untimely death. Never did we hear one complaint from him about his situation, only concern for us that we would be able to manage because he wasn't able to carry his share of the load as well as expressions of faith that the good Lord was watching over him and his family.

His health restored, Mark returned to teaching full-time, working as before until his retirement in 2007. He and his wife Kaye later served a mission at the New York City Manhattan Temple and for the last year or so he was engaged in a service mission in the Temple Department at Church headquarters in Salt Lake, instructing church architects on architectural history as they worked on designs for the ever increasing number of LDS temples worldwide.

Mark will be remembered for his engaging enthusiasm, for his ever-present smile, for his sense of humor, and his quick wit.

A few years ago, after his transplant, Mark was serving as chair of the department committee overseeing faculty retention and advancement. There had been some disagreements in the committee and Mark had gone to talk to the dean of the college about what was happening. After explaining what he and the committee had done to diffuse the situation, the dean had complimented Mark and told him,

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"You have a good heart." Mark responded, "that may be true, but it actually isn't my heart." [ :-) ] All of us who had the honor of knowing Mark as students and/or colleagues, however, know the truth: whether his own or a borrowed one, Mark did have a big heart and was a loving, caring, and positive person. He touched the lives of literally thousands and had a positive influence on many of us that we'll never forget. He has left two important legacies: first, his wonderful family, and second, a successful and growing art history program at BYU with its now hundreds of alumni.

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A Tribute to Alyssa Nicole Isom

by Heather Belnap Jensen

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On   September   23,   2012,   one   of  undergraduate   students,   Alyssa  Isom,   passed   away   from  complications   associated   with  juvenile   diabetes.   Alyssa   was   a  thoughtful,  dedicated  student  who  saw   her   art   history   major   and  business   management   minor   as  preparation   for   a   career   in   arts  education.   She   was   serving   as   a  teaching   assistant   for   an   ARTHC  202   course   at   the   time   of   her  passing.  Alyssa  was  the  kindest  of  souls;  she  seemed  keenly  aware  of  the  needs  of  others  around  her  and  volunteered   to   share   notes   or  otherwise   help   classmates.   In   the  days   following   her   death,   faculty  and   students   wrote   beautiful  tributes  to  Alyssa  on  art  postcards,  noting   her   generosity,  determination,   and   marvelous  sense   of   humor—her   rousing  Guerilla   Girls   presentation   in   the  Women   in   Art   class,   delivered  while   sporting   a   gorilla   mask,   is  not  soon  to  be  forgotten.  

Art   was   clearly   central   to   Alyssa;  among   the   effects   that   were  displayed   at   her   funeral   was   her  copy  of  Gardner’s  Art  Through   the  Ages  and  some  of   our   art  buttons.  In   the   eulogy   delivered   at   the  funeral   service,   her   siblings  mentioned   that   one   of   Alyssa'ʹs  

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greatest   dreams   was   to   see   the  masterpieces   of   European   art   in  person   (sadly,   she   had   hoped   to  participate   in   our   spring   study  abroad   program,   but   her   health  problems   had   precluded   this).   In  the   coming   months,   we   hope   to  establish   a   memorial   scholarship  that   helps   to   support   a   student  who   shares   Alyssa’s   dreams   of  studying  abroad  and  encourage  all  who   are   able   to   contribute   to   this  worthy  cause.    

Alyssa   Isom   was   awarded   a  degree  in  Art  History  &  Curatorial  Studies   posthumously   in  December  2012.  Her  sister,  who   is  a   BYU   student,   will   accept   her  degree   at   our   convocation  ceremony  in  April  2013.  

 

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2012 was a busy year for Professor Jensen on many fronts. She had lots of opportunities for work-related travel, including a quick research trip to France and travel to Ireland to present at the Société de Dix-Neuviémistes conference and to secure student internships. Professor Jensen also participated in a number of national conferences, including those for the Society for French Historical Studies in Los Angeles and Nineteenth-Century French Studies in Raleigh, and was in Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago on business. In the spring, she returned to her alma mater, the University of Kansas, to deliver a talk on fashion in post-Revolutionary French art and culture. Professor Jensen published three essays in 2012: “Quand la muse parle: Julie Candeille sur l'art de Girodet," which appears in an edited volume published by the Institut nationale d’histoire de l’art in France; “Modern Motherhood and Female Sociability in the Art of Marguerite Gérard,” published in an edited collection, Reconciling Art and Motherhood; and “Staël, Corinne and the Women Art Collectors of Napoleonic France” in a volume on the Germaine de Staël’s aesthetics. She was also commissioned to review a new book on the art patronage of Empress Eugénie for caa.reviews. Professor Jensen’s big publishing project for 2012 involved the co-editing of a volume tentatively titled Women, Femininity, and Public Space in European Culture, 1789-1914, and hopes to be able to report its publication in next year’s newsletter. In terms of her teaching responsibilities, she has served on a number of masters thesis committees in ARTHC and French Studies, taught another session for Late Summer Honors on art and fashion in modern Paris, and is thrilled to be able to offer an undergraduate course on women and art as part of the regular curriculum. She continues to serve on the Executive Committee for BYU’s Women’s Studies program and is the faculty advisor for its student journal. In May, she was appointed as the Art History & Curatorial Studies program coordinator.

Martha Moffitt Peacock published a chapter in the volume Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: The Spatial Turn in Pre-Modern Studies entitled, “Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition,” which appeared in the summer of 2012. This past summer she also directed a Study Abroad program to Europe that included stops in England, Austria, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and even Luxembourg. It was a marvelous trip with a truly outstanding group of students! This fall Martha published a second book chapter in the volume Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses entitled, “The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "Art" of Correction.” This coming year she has had a paper accepted for presentation at a conference on spirituality in the early modern period. The paper will explore the attraction for two 17th-century women artists, Anna Maria van Schurman and Maria Sybilla Merian, to the highly criticized Labadist religion. Currently, Martha is acting as a consultant for the BBC documentary, “The World That Women Made.” She has been advising the producer on an analysis of women artists of the Dutch Golden Age. In addition, Martha is serving as the Acting Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at BYU. 2012-2013 has been a year full of 10-year anniversary celebratory activities at the Center.

Heather Belnap Jensen

Faculty Updates

Martha Peacock

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In addition to leading a joint study abroad program with Professor Roger McFarlane (Classics), Professor Johnson had a productive year in scholarship. He presented a paper: "The Mausoleum of Bohemund at Canosa and the Architectural Setting of Ruler Tombs in Norman Italy" at the Romanesque and Mediterranean conference held in Palermo, April 2012, which was sponsored by the British Archaeological Association. The conference proceedings will be published in 2014. Professor Johnson also presented a paper, "Le chiese bizantine della Sardegna: Nuovi osservazioni (The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia: New Observations)" at the Ricerche in Cittadella conference at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari in May 2012. He also completed work on his book: The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia, which is being published by Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, and will be out in the next few weeks. It has been a good year for Dr. James Swensen. This past spring Professor Swensen presented his work on John Steinbeck and photography at the annual American Literature Association. Later, in September, he was invited to present his research on the history of photographing the Colorado Plateau at the Entrada Institute. Both presentations were very well received. Professor Swensen also lead this year’s student field trip to Los Angeles and co-directed a field study to Escalante, Utah. The field study resulted in an exhibition that was curated by BYU Art History Students. He co-curated the annual Faith in Works exhibition with undergraduate student Heidi Olsen. This year’s exhibition focused on the relationship between Mormon and Muslim artists. After years of work his book chapter on Dorothea Lange’s documentation of the 1938 California Cotton Strike and the John Steinbeck Committee will finally be published in 2013 by the University of Kentucky Press in the anthology Ambivalent American: The Political Companion to John Steinbeck. He also has two manuscripts currently under review with university presses, and is readying a third for future submission. He is continually crossing his fingers that they will be well received. In 2013 his explorations of photography will take him to massive mines, alluring railways, and the landscape of the American West.

Faculty Updates continued…

Mark Johnson

James Swensen

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David  spent  the  first  half  of  2012  teaching  in  the  Department  of  Art  History  at  the   University   of   Utah   before   joining   the   Department   of   Art   History   at  Brigham  Young  University  for  the  second  half  of  the  year.    David,  of  course,  is  thrilled   to  be  back  at  in  Provo  as  a  visiting  professor   in   the  same  department  where   he   first   learned   the   ins   and   outs   of   art   history   as   an   undergraduate  student.  Highlights  of  this  past  fall  semester  involved  interacting  with  students  in   the   classroom,   in   university   activities,   and   particularly   in   the   brown   bag  lectures,  fundraising  campaigns,  and  other  events  hosted  by  BYU'ʹs  Art  History  Association   (BYU  AHA).    David   encourages  any   student  who   is   interested   in  participating  in  the  AHA  to  contact  him  to  find  out  more  about  club  leadership  opportunities.   Outside   of   teaching   and   AHA   responsibilities,   David   is   kept  busy  tweaking  his  dissertation  chapters  as  well  as  laying  the  groundwork  for  a  series   of   articles   he   has   planned   on   little   studied   but   critically   important  eighteenth   and   nineteenth   century   Brazilian   churches.   David   was   able   to  present   some   of   his   current   research   this   past   fall   at   the   Brazilian   Studies  Association   at   the   University   of   Illinois   and   is   looking   forward   to   another  Brazilian   studies   conference   next   summer.    When   he   finds   a   spare  moment,  David   also   works   away   on   an   article   he   is   writing   about   a   handful   of  Philadelphia'ʹs   nineteenth-­‐‑century   churches,   which   culminates   a   project   he  began  as  a  graduate  student  a  few  years  ago.  David  wishes  to  congratulate  all  of  his   fall  2012  students  on   their  hard  work  in  preparing  for  and  contributing  to   classes,   for  writing   insightful   term   papers,   and   generally   doing  well  with  their   coursework.   He   is   especially   proud   of   his   capstone   seminar   students,  each  of  whom  wrote  excellent  essays  that  illustrated  their  abilities  to  navigate  as   full-­‐‑fledged  art  historians.  As  his  capstone  students  prepare   to   leave  BYU,  David  sincerely  wishes  them  well  in  all  of  their  future  endeavors      While  a  postdoctoral  fellow  at  the  Research  Center  in  American  Modernism  at  the  Georgia  O'ʹKeeffe  Museum   in   Santa  Fe,  New  Mexico,   Kate  published  her  article,   “La  mémoire   des   victimes:   la   place   des   cimetières   militaires   comme  lieux   de   mémoire,"ʺ   in   Normandie:   6   juin   1944:   L’émergence   d’une   mémoire  collective?  Eds.  Stéphane  Simonnet  and  Denis  Peschanski,  (Le  Conseil  Régional  de  Basse-­‐‑Normandie  et  le  Mémorial  de  Caen);  and  a  book  review,  “The  ‘Good  War’   in  American  Memory,   by   John  Bodnar”   for  The  Space  Between:  Literature  and   Culture   1914-­‐‑1945.   At   the   100th   Annual   Conference   of   the   College   Art  Association   in   Los   Angeles,   she   co-­‐‑chaired   the   panel   “Where   the   Bodies   Lie:  Landscapes  of  Mourning,  Memory,  and  Concealment.”  Later  that  month,  Kate  gave  a  paper,  “Aesthetic  War  Memory,   the  Overseas  American  Military  Cemeteries,   and  the  Erasure  of  the  Individual”  at  the  2012  National  Popular  Culture  &  American  Culture  Conference,  in  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico.  Perhaps  most  exciting  of  all  in   2012,   Kate   moved   to   Utah   and   started   teaching   at   Brigham   Young  University  as  a  visiting  professor,  where  she  has   enjoyed  getting   to  know  all  the   fabulous   students   and   wonderful   colleagues!   She   is   looking   forward   to  2013  and  teaching  Modern  and  Contemporary  Art  History.    

Kate Lemay

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During   this   spring   term,   Professor  Mark  Johnson,   teaming   with   Professor   Roger  Macfarlane   of   Classics,   took   students   to  Greece   (Athens,   Mycenae,   Epidauros,  Sparta,   Mystras,   Olympia,   Delphi,  Vergina)  Italy  (Rome,  Florence,  Ravenna),  with   short   visits   to   Berlin,   Paris,   and  London.   Although   the   focus   was   on  ancient   and   medieval   art,   they   spent  some   time   seeing   important  monuments  and  collections  from  later  periods  of  art.      

 

ART HISTORY

EUROPE STUDY ABROAD Spring & Summer 2012

Interior of St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Rome. Photo by Mark Johnson

During  summer  term,  Martha  Peacock  and   her   husband   let   a   program   that  focused   on   Renaissance   through  Modern   art.  While  much   of   their   stay  was  in  France,  touring  myriad  art  sites  of  Paris  and  its  environs,  as  well  as  the  Loire   Valley,   Burgundy,   and  Strausbourg,  they  also   toured  Austria,  Belgium,   The   Netherlands,   and  London.  

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STUDENT

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TRENTON OLSEN In  March  2012  Trenton  Olsen  presented  a  paper  at  the  Annual  Humanities  Education  and  Research  Association  Conference  in  Salt  Lake  City.  The  title  of  this  paper  was  "ʺFrom  Icon  to  Academy:  Visual  Art  in  the  Establishment  of  Russian  National  Identity  from  the  Pre-­‐‑  to  Post-­‐‑  Petrine  Period.  He  was  the  Stewart  Fellow  at  the  Springville  Museum  of  Art  in  the  summer,  where  he  helped  to  coordinate  and  advertise  upcoming  events  and  exhibitions.  In  October,  the  Woodbury  Gallery  hosted  an  Evening  for  Educators  in  conjunction  with  the  Springville  Museum  of  Art;  Trenton  was  invited  to  be  the  keynote  speaker  for  the  evening,  where  he  gave  a  lecture  titled  "ʺMajor  Movements  in  Russian  Art."ʺ RACHEL WISE In  March  2012,  Rachel  Wise  presented  at  the  Arizona  State  University'ʹs  annual  graduate  student  symposium,  where  she  gave  a  talk  titled,  "ʺRitualistic  Experience:  The  Making  and  Viewing  of  Art  and  Art  History.  Last  fall,  Rachel  was  invited  to  participate  in  the  prestigious  Sixteenth-­‐‑Century  Studies  Conference,  held  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  she  presented  a  version  of  her  thesis,  "ʺReading  the  Rosary  in  Women'ʹs  Hands:  Sixteenth-­‐‑Century  Netherlandish  Laywomen  and  Rosary  Devotion."ʺ CARLYLE SCHMOLLINGER Carlyle  Schmollinger  published  an  artist  interview,  “In  Alien  Hands:  The  Zig  Jackson  Interview,”  in  the  August  2012  edition  of  Santa  Fe’s  Monthly  arts  magazine,  THE  Magazine.

JACQUIE HIBNER Last  year,  Jacquie  Hibner  presented  two  papers  on  her  work  on  designer  Balenciaga:  “Ideological  Constructs  Within  the  Work  of  Cristóbal  Balenciaga:  Woman  as  Fragmented,  Disembodied,  Icon,  Spectacle”  was  presented  at  the  joint  graduate  symposium  hosted  by  University  of  Missouri-­‐‑Columbia  and  the  University  of  Kansas  in  March  2012  and  “Catholic  Ideological  Constructs  Within  the  Work  of  Cristóbal  Balenciaga:  Woman  as  Fragmented,  Disembodied,  Icon,  Spectacle”  was  presented  at  the  Arizona  State  University  conference  in  March  2012.    

EMILY ANN LARSEN The  Art  History  department  is  pleased  to  recognize  Emily  Ann  Larsen  as  the  recipient  of  our  Outstanding  Senior  in  Art  History  &  Curatorial  Studies  award  for  2012.

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Haddy  Mae  Jarvis  Beacham:    

Heidi  Olsen  Larsen:  Primitivizing  the  Pietà:  Marsden  Hartley  in  Nova  Scotia  

Nicole  Vance:  Sculpting  Bombay  Under  the  British  Raj:  Decorative  Sculpture  and  the  Victoria  Terminus  

Sarah  Schwieger:  Down,  Back,  Over,  Out:  Caldecott'ʹs  Route  Through  Primitivism  

Katelyn  Sheffield:    

Katie  White:  Martyr,  Murderer,  or  Memorial?  The  Crisis  of  Representation  and  the  Indian  Mutiny  of  1857  

Caitlin  Perkins  Bahr:  Recollecting  Byzantium:  "ʺPrimitive"ʺ  Representations  at  the  1908  Vienna  Kunstschau  

Hillary  Carman:    

Trenton  Olsen:    

Brittany  Dahlin:    

Jacque  Hibner:    

Last December, students in Professor Jensen’s graduate

seminar on Modern European Primitivism presented their

research to the public. Moving from popular culture to high art,

from India to Eastern Europe, these students engaged with

theories of primitivism in sophisticated ways.

Congratulations to all who participated!

Graduate Student

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2012 Internship

Update Internships continue to play

an important role in the budding careers of our Art

History Students at BYU. Since Winter Semester 2012

twenty-six Art History students have completed

internships at nine different institutions. Together that

translates to more than 4,000 hours of service

rendered by our students!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This  past  year  our  students  worked  at  the   Hunt   Museum   in   Limerick,  Ireland,   The   National   Wildlife  Museum   (Jackson,   WY),   the   Slater  Museum   (Norwich   CT),   BYU’s  Museum   of   Art,   the   Springville  Museum   of   Art,   the   Harbor   History  Museum   (Gig   Harbor,   WA),   the  Library  of  Congress,  the  Harold  B.  Lee  Library,   and   the   Church   Museum   of  History.   As   usual   our   students  received   high   marks   for   their   work.  Speaking   of   one   of   our   students   a  museum   curator   wrote,   “she   is   a  skilled,   mature,   intelligent,   young  woman  who  was  extremely  helpful  to  our  very  staff-­‐‑lean  museum.  She  made  a   huge   difference   in   our   ability   to  compete   .   .   .  We   would   invite   her   to  return  anytime.”

During   their   work   our   students   also  realized   how   important   gaining  experience  is  in  our  field.  One  student  even  admitted  that  she  was  glad  it  was  a   requirement.   Commenting   on   her  experiences   Sarah   Carrigan   wrote,  “My   internship  experience  was  by  far  one   of   the   richest,   most   rewarding  opportunities   I   have  had  as   a   student  at   BYU.”   After   completing   her  internship   at   the   Springville  Museum  of   Art,   Mindy   Moon   professed   that  she  grew  as  a  person  and  art  historian.    

 

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In   the   future   we   will   continue   to  encourage   students   to   pursue   every  opportunity.   As   Susana   Chavarria  stated,   “I   believe   that   future   interns  should   take   advantage   of   every  opportunity   to   get   more   valuable  knowledge,   experience   and   valuable  advice."ʺ   Kev   Nemelka   offered   this  summary  of  his  internship  in  Ireland:  "ʺWorking   at   The   Hunt   Museum   in  Limerick   was   a   memorable   and  valuable  learning  experience.    Because  it   was   a   rather   small   museum,   I  worked   with   the   three   department  chairs   of   The   Hunt   and   gained  experience   in   art   conservation   and  collection  care,  writing  text  panels  and  press   releases   on   temporary   shows,  designing   posters   and   invitations,  setting   up   exhibitions,   and   preparing  for   opening   receptions.     The   most  interesting   and   enjoyable   work   I  completed   was   implementing   Google  SketchUp   into   the   museum’s  curatorial  program  and  designing  two  contemporary  art  shows  using   the  3D  digital   models   I   constructed.     On   top  of   career   experience,   working   at   The  Hunt  had  its  cultural  perks—Ireland  is  spectacularly   beautiful   and   covered  with   the   most   unearthly   green   hills  I’ve  yet  seen.    But  if  there’s  one  thing  I  remember   most   of   all   it   is   most  assuredly  the  fish  n’  chips."ʺ  

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Brooke  Carpenter  –  Springville  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Natalie  Harris  –  Springville  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Katie  White  –  University  of  Utah  Museum  of  Fine  Art  (Salt  Lake  City,  UT)  –  Curatorial    

 

Corinne  Brierley  –  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Hilary  Carman  –  National  Museum  of  Wildlife  Art  (Jackson,  WY)  –  Curatorial  Colin  Carnahan  –  Harbor  History  Museum  (Gig  Harbor,  WA)  –  Research  &  Curatorial  Susana  Chavarria  -­‐‑  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Brittany  Dahlin  –  Springville  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  &  Education  Natalie  Harris  -­‐‑  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  –  Registration  Kevin  Nemelka  –  Hunt  Museum  (Limerick,  Ireland)  –  Administration  Meredith  Logan  –  Springville  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Emily  Mckinny  –  Harold  B.  Lee  Library,  Brigham  Young  University  –  Digital  Acc.  Melinda  Moon  –  Springville  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  &  Education  Marie  Murphy  –  Church  History  Museum  (Salt  Lake  City,  Utah)  -­‐‑  Curatorial  Aimee  Rich  –  Slater  Memorial  Museum  (Norwich,  CT)  –  Curatorial,  etc.  Katelyn  Sheffield  -­‐‑  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial    

 

Sarah  Carrigan  -­‐‑  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  &  BYU  Student  Association  Christine  Heaton  –  Springville  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Shae  Iwasaki  -­‐‑  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Hadley  Jarvis-­‐‑  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Lauren  Packard  -­‐‑  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  Lisa  Selman  -­‐‑  Brigham  Young  University  Museum  of  Art  –  Curatorial  

Students Who Completed Art

History Internships

2012: FALL SEMESTER

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The Art History and Curatorial Studies

Department is pleased to mention the four graduate

student recipients of two very prestigious awards; the

Foreign Language Acquisition Scholarship (FLAS) & the Graduate

Studies Fellowship.

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Rachel Wise, FLAS   recipient  2012-­‐‑2013   of   the   Dutch   Language,   is  currently   doing   her   research   on  gender  dynamics   in   late   fifteenth   and  early-­‐‑sixteenth   northern   rosary  confraternities.       Knowing  Dutch   is   a  necessity   for   her   thesis   research  “Reading   the   Rosary   in   Women’s  Hands:   Sixteenth-­‐‑Century  Netherlandish  Laywomen  and  Rosary  Devotion.”     She   is   using   her   FLAS   to  take   two   intensive   Dutch   language  courses   in   Amsterdam   and   Antwerp.      She   will   also   be   using   the   funds   for  travel   to   archives   located   in   Holland,  Belgium,  Germany,  and  France.

Caitlin Bahr, Graduate   Studies  fellowship   recipient,   will   be  researching   her   thesis,   "ʺWomen   and  the  Wiener  Werkstätte:  The  Centrality  of   Women   and   the   Applied   Arts   in  Early   Twentieth-­‐‑Century   Vienna.”    She   will   write   about   the   early   20th  Century   Viennese   workshop   of  applied   arts,   the   Wiener   Werkstätte,  and   how   it   reflected  Vienna’s   unique  society   in   which   women   played   a  central   role,   as   designers   and  craftswomen   as   well   as   consumers.  She   hopes   to   present   the   Wiener  Werkstätte  as  a  lens  through  which  we  can   gain   a   greater   understanding   of  the  roles  of  women  in  early  twentieth-­‐‑century   Viennese   society,   as   well   as  the  historical   significance   of  Viennese  applied   arts   in   the   field   of   visual  culture.   She   plans   to   use   the   funds  from  the  Graduate  Studies  Fellowship  to   conduct   research   in   museums   and  archives  in  Vienna.

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Breezy Taggart, Graduate  Studies   fellowship   recipient,   will   use  the  grant  to  facilitate  primary  research  in   Washington,   D.C   and   Brooklyn,  New   York   on   her   thesis   “Esther  Bubley'ʹs   Documentation   of   the   1940'ʹs  Dissin'ʹs   House:   Race   and   Social   Class  Exposed."ʺ     She   will   delve   into   the  racial   and   social   environment   of  Jewish   Americans   living   in   America  during  World  War   II.     In   1942   Esther  Bubley   documented   Jewish   American  workers   in   Washington,   D.C.   for   the  Office   of   War   Information.     Breezy  intends   to   use   these   photographs   to  bring   about   a   better  understanding  of  Jewish   cultural   experience   within  America.  She  will  specifically  research  within   the  collection  of   FSA  photographs   at   the   Library   of  Congress   as   well   as   visit   the   Esther  Bubley  Archives  in  NY.  

Katelyn Sheffield, FLAS  recipient   2012-­‐‑2013   of   the   Polish  Language,   is   working   on   her   Thesis  entitled  “Zofia  Stryjenska:  Shaping  the  face   of   Poland”.    Katelyn’s   research  centers   on   the   work   of   Polish   artist  Zofia  Stryjenska,  a  remarkable  woman  working   in   Poland   between   the   two  world   wars.   Because   there   is   next   to  nothing   written   in   English   about  Stryjenska,  her  research  will  be  largely  conducted   in   Polish.   With   the   aid   of  the   FLAS,   she   will   be   enrolled   in  courses   fall/winter   that   will   help  continue   to   expand   her   vocabulary,  especially   on   academic   topics   related  to   art,   history,   and   culture,   as  well   as  solidify   her  understanding   and   use  of  Polish   grammar.   Furthermore,   with  the   funds   received,   she   will   be  traveling   to   Poland   in   August   to  conduct  additional  research.  

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MASTERS & HONORS

THESES

MASTERS  THESES  

Allison  Sligting  Mays:  German  Nationalism  and  the  Allegorical  Female  in  Karl  Friedrich  Schinkel’s    

Nan  T.  Atwood:  Rembrandt  van  Rign’s  Jewish  Bride:  Depicting  Female  Power  in  the  Dutch  Republic  Through  the  Notion  of  Nation  Building  

Alec  Teresa  Gardner:  Joseph  as  Father  in  Guido  Reni’s  St.  Joseph  Images  

 

Corinne  Brierley:    The  Dog  as  a  Symbol  of  Power:  Titian'ʹs  

 

Meredith  Logan:  Benjamin  West'ʹs  Death  of  General  Wolfe:  A  Social-­‐‑Historical  and  Marxist  Reading  

Susana  Chavarria:  Destruction  of  Numancia:  A  Spanish  Search  for  National  Identity  

Jennifer  Hinckley:  Cecilia  Beaux'ʹs  Sita  and  Sarita  

Carley  Wells:  Rosa  Bonheur  and  "ʺThe  Wild"ʺ  Assertions  of  the  Religious,  Primitive,  Modern  Woman"ʺ  

Jacque  Healy:  Redefining  Women:  The  Power  of  the  Three  Maries  Fresco  at  Dura-­‐‑Europos  

Christine  Mccluskey:  Bridging  the  Gap:  Metaphysics  in  the  Well  of  Moses  and  Word  Iconography  

Eliza  Meeks:  Medieval  Gift  Giving:  The  Gift  and  Receipt  of  Gifts  by  Adam  and  Eve  

Maddie  West:  Lorenzo  de’  Medici’s  Demonstration  and  Assertion  of  Control:  The  Implications  of  the  Missing  Figure  in  Botticelli’s  Primavera  

April  Griffiths:  Elements  in  the  Studio:  Proving  the  Legitimacy  of  the  

 

 

Lauren  Dursteler:  Understanding  Yves  Klein  

Keri  Erdmann:  Adolph  de  Meyer’s  Portrait  of  Gertrude  Vanderbilt  Whitney  

Brooke  Carpetner:  The  Art  of  Fashion:  A  Look  into  the  Transfixing  Aura  of  Art  and  Fashion  

Haley  Nimer:  Those  Who  Did  Not  Fit  the  Mold:  A  Reading  of  Christina'ʹs  World  

Aaron  Haines:  Turkey'ʹs  Cultural  Embargo:  Establishing  Identity  through  the  Repatriation  of  Antiquities  

Sarah  Maines:  The  Road  to  Selfdom:  A  Critical  Look  at  the  Uniqueness  and  Influence  of  Albrecht  Dürer’s  Self-­‐‑Portrait  of  1500  

Kate  Kelly:  The  Penance  of  Caravaggio  as  Seen  in  His  Two  Supper  at  Emmaus  

Lauren  Stroud:  Watson  and  the  Shark:  American  Entrepreneurism    

Kelsey  Gee:  The  Architecture  of  Society:  The  Success  of  the  1853  New  York  Crystal  Palace  

Diana  Lauritzen:  Recognizing  Faces:  Women’s  Portraits  on  the  Salt  Lake  City  and  County  Building  

Leslie  Ostler:  Sex  and  Spectacle:  The  Merging  Roles  of  Cha-­‐‑U-­‐‑Kao  

Hadley  Jarvis:  The  Montmartre  Female  Experience:  As  Seen  in  The  Blue  Room  by  Suzanne  Valadon  

Heidi  Olsen:  Consuming  Subjects:  

Annie  E.  Stott:  The  Influence  of  the  Roman  Atrium-­‐‑House’s  Architecture  and  Use  of  Space  in  Engendering  the  Power  and  Independence  of  the  Materfamilias  

Sarah  Dibble:  George  Dibble  and  the  Struggle  for  Modern  Art  in  Utah  

HONORS  THESIS  

Emily  A  LARSEN:  The  Women  of  Picasso’s  Guernica:  Tropes  and  Stereotypes  derived  from  Popular  Spanish  Civil  War  Imagery  

We want to congratulate all

of the students who completed

an honors, senior, or masters thesis

in 2012. This is quite an

accomplishment and we are

thrilled at the caliber of our

students’ research, writing, and presentation

skills.

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  This   past   June,   I   had   the  opportunity   to   attend   a   weeklong  training   in   Magdeburg,   Germany   that  was   sponsored   by   the   “Provenance  Research   Training   Program.”   The  program   was   focused   on   Nazi-­‐‑looted  art   and   the   research   methods   used   to  determine   the   provenance   of   these  works.   It   was   a   great   training   where   I  was   able   to   meet   many   professionals  involved   with   cultural   restitution   from  across  the  globe.    

  The   next   week,   I   presented   a  paper   in   Italy   at   the   annual   art   crime  conference   sponsored   by   the  “Association   for   Research   into   Crimes  against   Art.”   My   paper   discussed   the  recent   change   in   Turkey’s   exhibition  loan  policy  and  how  it  has  impacted  the  international   art   community.   Following  my   presentation,   I   received   valuable  feedback   from   archaeologists   and  lawyers   involved   with   cultural  patrimony.  

  Both  of   these   experiences   have  been  invaluable  as  I  continue  to  prepare  myself   for   a   career   in   art   crime  investigation   and   art   law.   I’m   very  grateful   to   the   art   history   faculty   for  helping   me   prepare   for   these  conferences   and   for  providing  me  with  funds  to  subsidize  the  costs.  

 

 

STUDENT IN FOCUS:

To the right is the Berliner Dom (The Berlin Cathedral). The one on the left is the Altes Museum (The Old Museum).

Pompeii, Italy

"Ponte Vecchio", Florence, Italy

One student’s experience in the professional world—

career development at its finest.

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This   past   summer   I   had   the  opportunity   to   undergo   a   unique  research  opportunity  with  the  aid  of  a   grant   from   the  Office   of   Research  and  Creative  Activities  (ORCA).  My  project  was  to  seek  out  the  locations  of  a  selection  of  images  taken  by  the  famed  Parisian  photographer  Robert  Doisneau,   and   return   to   take   a  second   photograph   as   a   way   to  document   a   social   and   physical  change   in   the   Parisian   landscape  from   when   Doisneau   was   working  to   now.  While   at   first   the   task   was  overwhelming   given   my   lack   of  familiarity   with   the   city   as   well   as  the  limited  scholarship  on  Doisneau  as   an   artist,   it   turned   out   being   the  most  rewarding  academic  pursuit  of  my   undergraduate   career   thus   far.  By   returning   to   the   exact   sites   that  Doisneau   was   working   in   60,   70  years  ago,  I  felt  as  though  I  was  able  to   connect   with   the   art   –   and   by  extension   the   people   and   culture   –  in   a   way   I   never   would   have   been  able   to   had   I   chosen   to   spend   my  time   digging   through   archives   or  traversing   museums.   This   project  gave   me   a   chance   to   create  something   of   my   own   while  honoring   the   work   of   a   charming  artist  who   is   beloved  by   the  French  people   for   portraying   their   culture  as   one   of   both   romance   and  resiliency.   Having   had   this  experience   I   have   grown   to   feel  tremendously   empowered   as   an   art  historian.   My   perception   of   this  discipline   has   broadened   to  encompass   the  human  aspect   of   the  art  we  devote  ourselves  to,  and  I  am  encouraged   to   know   first-­‐‑hand   that  risk,   adventure,   and   creativity   all  have   a   place   in   such   an   academic  field.   I   look   forward   to   continuing  my   work   with   Doisneau’s  photographs  in  the  future  as  I  make  return   trips   to  Paris   in   the  hopes  of  broadening   the   research   that   will  eventually   serve   as   the   subject   for  my  senior  thesis  paper  and  possibly  additional  publications.    

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Art History Association & Brown Bag Lectures

Professor   Holly   Clayson,   Professor   of   Art  History   and   Director   of   the   Alice   Kaplan  Institute   for   the   Humanities   visited   BYU  campus   in   January   2012   as   a   guest   of   the  Art  History   &   Curatorial   Studies   program   and   in  conjunction   with   the   BYU   Museum   of   Art'ʹs  national   symposium   on   transculturalism.   She  conducted  an  informal  Q-­‐‑and-­‐‑A  with  students,  where   she   gave   advice   on   education   and  professional   development   in   the   field   of   art  history   and   also   gave   a   public   lecture,   titled  "ʺMary   Cassatt'ʹs   Lamp,"ʺ   which   is   part   of   her  current   book   project   tentatively   titled  Electric  Paris.  Professor  Clayson   is  a   specialist   in  19th-­‐‑century  French  art,  and  her  work  ranges   from  considerations   of   women   in   Impressionist   art  to  transatlantic  exchanges  between  France  and  the  U.S.  She  offered  invaluable  perspectives  on  developments   in   the   discipline   of   art   history  and   commented   numerous   times   on   the  intelligent,   thoughtful   questions   and  observations  offered  by  our  students.  

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Erika   Doss,   Professor   of   Art  History  and  American  Studies  at  the  University  of  Notre  Dame,   is  an   expert   on   20th   century  American   art.   Her   lecture,  "ʺMemorial   Mania:  Commemoration   and   Affect   in  Contemporary   America,"ʺ  addressed   public   art  in   America  according  to  affective  themes  like  fear,   gratitude,   and   anger.   She  was   particularly   interested   in  how   post   9/11   commemoration  reflects   a   heightened  emotionalism.   We   were  delighted   to   have   Dr.   Doss   on  campus!  

We   were   privileged   to   hear   from  Dr.   Rita   Wright,   the   recently-­‐‑appointed   Director   of   the  Springville   Museum   of   Art,   as   the  keynote   speaker   at   our   annual   Fall  Assembly   for   majors.   Dr.   Wright,  who   has   worked   as   a   curator   at  both   the   BYU  Museum   of   Art   and  Church   History   Museum,   gave   a  truly   motivational   talk   regarding  her  career  path  and   the   lessons  she  has  learned  along  the  way.  This  was  a  marvelous  experience  for  those  in  attendance.    

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In early June of 2012 a handful of students and faculty from BYU’s

Department of Visual Arts traveled south to visit the Grand Staircase-

Escalante National Monument. “The place had a strange beauty.

It’s surreal”, says animation student Paul Petty. For five days this group of students immersed

themselves in the local landscape and community. Their adventures included Bryce Canyon National

Park, Calf Creek Falls, slot canyons, and Devils Garden. “The

trip down to Escalante was full of great memories that I’ll recall with

fondness for the rest of my life”, says Matt Asunama, an animation

major.

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After returning from the breathtaking landscape of Southern Utah, the students were asked to comment on their favorite parts of the trip. Nathan Harding, a student in the Illustration program, said his favorite experience was “the time spent at Calf Creek. Not only was it a refreshing and beautiful place, but it was there that I made friends with other students”. Daniel Mortensen’s said his was watching “the red glow of the sun as it peaked above the distant mountains and bathed the landscape in magical light…I felt alive”. As part of the experience the students will be organizing an exhibition of their work for the 2012 Escalante Canyons Festival / Everett Ruess Days in Escalante, Utah. The exhibition titled, Resonance: Escalante 2012, and was curated by Breezy Taggart, Mindy Moon, and Brittany

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Dahlin, BYU Art History Students. Participating artists include: Art Morrill, Paul Gerla, Renee Bates, Daniel Mortenson, Rachel Call, Sarah Croft, James Winegar, Robert Cowan, Paul Petty, Matthew Asunama, Steven Waggoner, and Brian Hutchinson. These artists are a small sample of students from the Illustration, Studio Art, Graphic Design, Photography, and Animation Majors at BYU. Faculty advisors are Jason Lanegan and James Swensen. The artwork will explore the diverse ways in which our experiences in Escalante continue to resonate in us and in our work. As the students interacted with the landscape and community of Escalante, they gleaned ideas with which to create their artworks. The participants excitedly wait to return to Escalante to see what the Canyons Festival has to offer.

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During   fall   semester   2012   a  group   of   eight   art   history   students   in  Prof.   James   Swensen’s   Art   History  Business   Capstone   class   worked  together  to  create  a  durational  art  show  at   the   Amphitheater   of   the   Covey  Center.   The   exhibition,   titled   “Things  Fall   Apart,”   explored   the   idea   of  permanence   within   our   lives   and  begged   the   question:   What   truly   lasts  forever?    As  a  group  it  was  decided   to  create   a   show   that   was   powerful   yet  inviting  –  a  space  to  be  enjoyed  and  not  restricted  by  rules.    Artworks  were  put  up   with   the   expectation   that   they  would   not   have   to   be   removed   by  human   force;   rather   they   would   fade  and  disintegrate  on   their  own.  Starting  with   only   a   rough   idea   of   what   they  wanted   the   show   to   be,   the   students  allowed  the  artists  to  truly  develop  the  idea   into   a   thesis.   The   result   was   an  impressive   and   inspiring   body   of  works   by   ten   budding   Utah   artists  including   Ron   Linn,   Raphael   Morin,  and  Tiana  Birrell.  Opening  night  was  a  huge  success  with  almost  300  visitors  in  attendance.    “Things  Fall  Apart”  was  a  shining   example   of   the   caliber   of   our  

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students   and   the   artists   of   this  community.   The   project   provided  each   student   with   real   world  curatorial  experience.  We  are  grateful  to   the   City   of   Provo   and   the   Covey  Center   for   their   hospitality   and  support  of  our  students.    

“Things Fall Apart”

Art History Business Class Capstone

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By Hadley Jarvis This   year’s   participants   in   the   Art  History   Business   Capstone   project  included:    

Ashley   Alley,   Annika   Åsen,   Brooke  Carpenter,   Aaron   Haines,   Natalie  Harris,   Hadley   Jarvis,   Elizabeth  Pusey,  and  Nicole  Vance.  

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ART HISTORY ALUMNI

UPDATES JENNIFER THADEN (2003)

   DARREN ZOBRIST (1995)

Although  I  have  chosen  a  career  in  finance  and  business,  I  was  accepted  to  the  MBA  programs  at  Harvard  and  Wharton.    As  I  wanted  to  work  on  Wall  Street,  I  opted  for  Wharton,  which  has  more  of  a  finance  emphasis.    After  Wharton,  I  worked  at  Goldman  Sachs  for  several  years.    During  my  last  year  at  Goldman,  I  invested  in  a  start-­‐‑up  seafood  company  producing  sushi  quality  tuna  from  Mexico.    After  about  a  year,  I  left  Goldman  to  focus  full-­‐‑time  on  the  seafood  company,  moving  to  Brazil  to  manage  the  expansion  there.    I  sold  my  company  in  2006  to  a  large,  multi-­‐‑national  seafood  company  with  production  all  over  the  world.      ANN POULSON (2002)

 KATIE LARSEN STROBEHN (APRIL 2006)

 I  currently  work  at  BYU  as  a  graphic  designer/graphic  communications  manager  for  the  division  of  Student  Academic  and  Advisement  Services  (Admissions,  Registrar,  Financial  Aid,  and  Integrated  Student  Services).      LINDSEY CHRISTENSEN (DECEMBER 2008)

I  will  receive  my  Master'ʹs  in  Art  History  from  The  George  Washington  University  in  December  2012!  My  emphasis  is  post-­‐‑colonialism  within  American  and  Ethiopian  19th  century  art.   FAN FENG (April 2010)

I  now  am  in  my  second  year  of  earning  a  master'ʹs  degree  in  archaeology  at  BYU,  and  my  emphasis  is  Chinese  archaeology,  especially  focusing  on  trade  on  the  Silk  Route.      ELLIOTT WISE (BA 2007, MA 2009)

I'ʹm  currently  in  an  Art  History  Ph.D.  program  at  Emory  University  in  Atlanta,  Georgia.    My  major  field  is  Northern  Renaissance  painting,  and  my  minor  field  is  Medieval  art.    Right  now  I'ʹm  working  on  my  dissertation.    ANNIE ROMANO (DEC 2008)

I  served  a  mission  in  Milan,  Italy.  After  my  return,  I  taught  art  and  art  history  at  a  charter  school  (K-­‐‑5)  in  Salt  Lake  called  Legacy  Preparatory  Academy.  I  am  back  in  school  getting  my  Master  of  Public  Administration  in  nonprofit  management.  I  was  married  six  months  ago  (new  name  is  Annie  Romano.)  My  husband  and  I  worked  for  a  nonprofit  in  Fiji  this  summer  and  I  also  was  a  fellow  at  the  Partnership  for  Public  Service  (nonprofit  that  works  to  revitalize  the  federal  government  through  recruiting  and  training)  in  Washington  D.C.  We  plan  to  move  back  to  DC  after  graduation.   ERIC HARKER (BA 2009)

Graduated  with  Master  of  Architecture  from  University  of  Utah  in  May  of  2012    

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MARTHA BAUMGARTEN (MA 2003)

 I  teach  online  English  classes  at  Stevens-­‐‑Henager  College,  and  I  also  teach  Art  History  part  time  at  SLCC.    Most  of  time,  I'ʹm  a  stay-­‐‑at-­‐‑home  mom  in  Sandy,  UT.    COURTNEY DAVIS (2006)

I  am  currently  a  Lecturer  of  Art  History  at  Utah  Valley  University,  a  position  I  have  held  since  2007.    I  developed  and  direct  UVU'ʹs  Art  History  &  Photography  study  abroad  program  to  Europe.    Last  summer  was  our  inaugural  trip,  and  we  traveled  to  London,  Paris  and  Barcelona  to  study  art  and  immerse  ourselves  in  the  visual  landscape  of  Europe.    I  developed  and  direct  the  annual  art  history  symposium  at  UVU  each  spring  (2013  will  be  our  fourth  year).    Previous  topics  have  included  Word  &  Image  and  Art  &  Mass  Media.  I  am  also  a  licensed  attorney  (I  graduated  from  BYU  Law  School  in  2006,  and  worked  as  an  associated  attorney  at  Hill,  John  &  Schmutz  in  Provo).    I  am  always  on  the  lookout  for  ways  to  combine  my  art  historical  and  legal  backgrounds,  such  as  the  study  of  copyright  law  and  other  art  law  topics.    KELSEY GEE (APRIL 2012)

JENNY CHAMPOUX (2004)

I  recently  moved  to  Denver,  CO  with  my  husband  and  two  children,  but  I  continue  to  teach  art  history  classes  online  for  Northeastern  University.   MICHELLE WIMBER HILL (BA 2004, MA 2007)

Currently  working  at  the  San  Antonio  Public  Library  with  the  art  collection.  Also  Adjunct  Faculty  in  Humanites  in  the  Alamo  Colleges  system.    JULIANNE PARKER WEIS (2007)

After  BYU  I  came  to  Oxford  where  I  did  a  Masters  in  African  Studies,  then  went  on  to  work  at  UNICEF  and  other  development  organizations  around  the  world,  in  Brazil,  Niger,  Ethiopia,  and  other  countries.  I'ʹm  now  back  at  Oxford  doing  a  PhD  in  the  history  of  medicine.    

GAVIN POULIOT (2009) I  am  currently  a  Lead  User  Experience  Designer  for  Measured  Progress,  Inc.,  a  K-­‐‑12  educational  assessment  firm.  

I'ʹm  currently  also  developing  an  iPad  app  for  autistic  children  to  plan  a  museum  visit  by  using  picture  stories.   MAGGIE LEAK (APRIL 2009)

My  last  semester  I  participated  in  BYU'ʹs  Washington  Seminar  program  which  allowed  me  to  intern  with  the  Smithsonian'ʹs  Hirshhorn  Museum  and  Sculpture  Garden.  That  segued  into  a  contract  position  at  the  Smithsonian'ʹs  National  Portrait  Gallery  that  lasted  20  months.  Now  I  am  getting  my  MA  in  Museum  Studies  at  The  George  Washington  University  in  Washington  DC  focusing  on  Collections  Management  and  Art  History.  

SHELLEY WILLIAMS (MA 2009) I’ve  been  a  stay  at  home  mom  since  with  my  three  little  girls  since  I  graduated,  but  I  keep  a  medieval  art  history  blog:  Medieval-­‐‑illumination.blogspot.com  It  not  only  keeps  my  mind  in  art  history,  but  it  also  gets  lots  of  traffic!  Thousands  of  visitors  every  week  from  the  Netherlands,  Germany  France,  New  Zealand  and  the  U.S.  It  has  created  a  small  community  of  people  who  love  beautiful  medieval  art,  and  sometimes  we  even  solve  mysteries.   Lately  I  have  been  featuring  photos  I  took  of  a  special  Book  of  Hours  in  the  L  Tom  Perry  Special  Collections.  Through  my  own  investigations  and  those  of  my  followers,  old  professors  and  friends,  we  have  translated  a  mysterious  sonnet  written  on  a  front  page  of  the  Book  of  Hours,  figured  out  some  confusing  iconography,  and  Latin  calligraphy.  It'ʹs  a  lovely  site,  and  I  would  recommend  it  to  anyone  studying  art  history  at  BYU,  especially  since  it  features  a  gorgeous  work  of  art  they  have  access  to!

 

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