Faculty Notes
Carey || Choen || Falk || Kreydatus || Mead || Palermo || Santiago || Wallach || Watkinson || Webster
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Charles
Palermo In the spring of 2010, Charles Palermo was awarded the Alumni Memorial Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History
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Susan V. Webster
Jane Williams Mahoney Professor of Art & Art History
In 2009-2010, Susan Verdi Webster was awarded the Edilia and Françoise-Auguste de Montêquin Senior Fellowship from the Society of Architectural Historians and a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society to pursue research for her book on architecture in colonial Quito. She also was awarded a QEP/Mellon grant that will allow her to take three undergraduate students to Quito, Ecuador, this summer to conduct archival research on colonial art and architecture.
Webster published several articles "Masters of the Trade: Native Artisans, Guilds, and the Construction of Colonial Quito," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 68, no. 1 (March 2009): 10-29, which won the Harold Eugene Davis Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies for the best article published in 2008-2009; "La misteriosa vida del arquitecto José Jaime Ortiz antes de su llegada a Quito, s. XVII," and "Maestros indígenas y la construcción del Quito colonial," in Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, ed., Las artes en Quito en el cambio de los siglos XVII al XVIII (Quito: FONSAL, 2009), 11-25; 27-51; and "Art, Identity, and the Construction of the Church of Santo Domingo in Quito," Hispanic Research Journal 10, no. 5 (December 2009): 417-438.
Webster presented numerous papers at national and
international conferences during the in 2009-2010 academic year, including
"Authorship and Authority in the Construction of Colonial Quito," at the Latin
American Studies Association in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; "Conquista de la
arquitectura europea: Maestros indígenas y la construcción del Quito colonial,"
at Northeastern University in Chicago; "Architecture and Archives in Spanish
America: The Case of Colonial Quito," at the College Art Association in Chicago; "Andeans and Europeans in the
Construction of Colonial Quito," at the symposium Urban Empire: Cities in the
Early Modern Hispanic World, Tulane University in New Orleans; and "The
Conquest of Italian Architecture: Andean Masters and the Construction of
Colonial Quito," at the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in
Venice, Italy.
In spring, 2010, students in
Webster's seminar, "Visual and Material Culture in Colonial Spanish America,"
co-curated an exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum, "Merging Souls: Arts of
Devotion in Latin America," and organized a public symposium to share the
results of their research.
Barbara Watkinson
Associate Professor
/ Art History
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| Barbara Watkinson offered a new seminar this year: Art of Christian Pilgrimage: East and West. We retraced the steps of pilgrims of the fourth through fourteenth centuries in both the Holy Land and Europe. We stopped at Jerusalem, Mount Sinai, Rome, Compostela Spain, Canterbury England, and many points in between. Sometimes we followed travelers and experienced the physical and emotional difficulties of their penitential trips. Other times we took imaginary journeys, just like medieval monks and nuns, who could not leave the confines of their cloisters. With the help of Cassie Prena, a major in art history, my study on the transformation of the landscape in western France has included tying nineteenth century survey maps with aerial and satellite photos. Below is a section of one and the church of St. John the Baptist at Dénezé-sous-Doué, which was built in ca. 1100. The area labeled Le Paradis (Paradise) was an early medieval cemetery located only 300 feet from the church. Cassie will be on study abroad in Paris during the fall semester and I will be on research leave; so we will continue our project. I'll keep you posted. |
Alan Wallach
Ralph H.Wark Professor of Art and Art History
In the fall of 2009, Alan Wallach presented the keynote lecture for "Transatlantic Romanticism," a three-day symposium which he co-organized and which was co-sponsored by the Royal Academy, the Paul Mellon Centre, University College, London, and the Terra Foundation. Other highlights for 2009 included lectures at the University of Oklahoma and Syracuse University. Wallach presented papers at the annual meetings of the American Studies Association, the College Art Association, and the Association of Art Historians annual conference which last year took place in Manchester, England.
Wallach
published an essay in Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors eds., A New Literary History of America
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), a book that has been widely
reviewed and commented on. He also
published a short article entitled "McSorley's Bar: John Sloan's
Painting of a Scene from Old New York," in edible Manhattan, a "foodie" journal edited by William and
Mary alumna, Gabrielle Langholtz. He is
co-editing a volume titled Transatlantic
Romanticism based on the London symposium. He is also working on a collection of his own essays on the
artist Thomas Cole and on a book tentatively titled Rethinking the Hudson River School. Time permitting, he will prepare a new edition of his book, Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art
Museum in the United States.
This
coming fall, Wallach will be Terra Visiting Professor in American Art at the Freie
Universität in Berlin.
Brian Kreydatus
Associate
Professor / Printmaking
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This past academic year Brian had a solo exhibition, Recent Works, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR and a three-person show Jeff Dion, Brian Kreydatus, Steven Labadessa, MDH Fine Arts, New York, NY. He participated in many group exhibitions this past year including: 2009 Guanlan International Print Biennial: A collection of prints, Guanlan, China (where his print "Opening Day Night" entered the collection of the organizing committee) and Box ID II, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin, Ireland. In addition, he had a two week artist residency at Saint Marys College, MD. |
Elizabeth Mead
Associate Professor / Sculpture
Elizabeth Mead's studio work is currently on view in the exhibition "Beyond Audubon" at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and she recently participated in the "Artists Who Teach exhibition at the Charles Taylor Art Center in Hampton, Virginia
She is also the curator of "Unbearable Beauty: Triumph of the Human Spirit, Photographs of W. Eugene and Aileen M. Smith" on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art through 20 June. The exhibition was part of the 2010 International Mercury EXPO organized by the Mercury Global Inquiry Group, of which she is a member. Mead produced the catalog accompanying the exhibition and wrote the introduction.
Her public talks this year have included, "Art and the Environment" at the Wren Society, "The Roar of Silence," an invited talk about the process of bronze-casting for This Century Art Gallery and the Williamsburg Public Library, "Message in a Bottle" at the Mariners' Museum, Newport News on the occasion of an exhibition of work by students in her advanced sculpture class, "Spaces and Places; Near and Far," "Unbearable Beauty: A Curator's Perspective" at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, and she gave the introduction and led the post show discussion for the screening of "Manufactured Landscapes." She also adjudicated the Gosport Arts Festival in Portsmouth.
Students in Mead's sculpture class collaborated with Professor Ed Pease's architecture students on a commission from the Committee on Sustainability. The two classes designed and constructed an installation in Swem Library to bring greater awareness to the DOT (Do One Thing) campaign.
A continuation of her on-going research in the intersection between art and science, Mead was an invited attendee at the SciNet Arts/Humanities/Complex Networks Symposium held in Boston. She wrote "Making the Environment" for the book Mercury: The Human Element, ed. M. Newman. (Boca Raton, FL: CRS Press, Taylor and Francis Group, forthcoming 2011)
Mead was recently awarded a Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, where she examined the experiential aspects of landscape and the ways environmental cues connect us to the world. She is at work on a new body of work, Various Objects: Things on the Horizon.
| Naomi J. Falk Visiting Instructor/ Technician / Gallery Coordinator Naomi Falk has had
several exhibitions recently, including sculpture and performance work
in "Conflict/Interest" at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville,
drawing in "Artists Who Teach" at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center in
Hampton, VA, and fiber-based sculpture in an invitational show in
Pennsylvania. Special thanks goes to the William & Mary and
Walsingham Academy students (and many others) who helped with her
Recall(ed) Quilt project. |
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Linda Carey
Adjunct
Professor/ 2D Foundations
Linda was awarded two international residency
fellowships for the
Summer and Fall of 2010: a Klots MICA Artists Residency at
Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, and a Ballinglen Arts Foundation
Residency in County Mayo, Ireland. She plans to focus on landscape
painting given the exceptional beauty of both locations. In 2009 she
was a visiting artist at the Columbus College of Art &
Design in Columbus OH, and at the Beverly Street Studio School in
Staunton VA. Linda had a two-person show with Neil Riley in the Fall of
2009 at the
Keny Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. Linda's work was featured in a review
of the 2009 William & Mary Faculty exhibition in The Daily Press by
Mark St. John Erickson. Linda teaches on occasion as an adjunct at
William & Mary, and does drawing workshops at various art centers
and colleges.
Nicole
McCormick Santiago
Assistant Professor / Drawing & Color Theory
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This spring Nicole exhibited 33 artworks in a solo show at Berea College. During the past year she also exhibited in 13
juried and invitational exhibitions including: Third National Juried Exhibition, at Prince Street Gallery in New
York, NY (juror: Susana Coffey), Strictly
Painting 7, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA, and Visual Narrative, Gallery 180, at the
Illinois Institute of Art Chicago. |
