Faculty News
Since January 2022, Mike Jabbur’s work has been included in five group invitational exhibitions including the Mississippi Clayworks Invitational at the Gumtree Museum of Art (in conjunction with the Mississippi Clay Conference, Tupelo, MS), both the American Pottery Festival and Winter Exhibition at Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, MN), Pour at Schaller Gallery (Baroda, MI), and Teapots IX at Baltimore Clayworks (Baltimore, MD). While on sabbatical, Jabbur will jury the international exhibition Teapots X at Baltimore Clayworks and make new work for five exhibitions including a solo show at Schaller Gallery, both a solo Artist Feature and the group exhibition Winter Open House at Northern Clay Center, the Clay Holiday Market at Clay Art Center (Port Chester, NY), and the Gallery Expo, represented by Baltimore Clayworks, in conjunction with the 2024 NCECA ceramics conference (Richmond, VA).
Xin Conan-Wu presented two papers at major conferences: “Carved in Stone, Imprinted on Land: The 
Landscape of Three Mounts of Jingkou” at Stuck in the Middle? The Third Middle Period China Humanities Conference (220-1600), Yale University; and “Seeing Mount Lu: On an Ontological Shift in the Chinese Gaze” at Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and Middle Period China: Revivals and Reinventions in Visual and Intellectual Culture, University of Edinburgh. She is also completing the publication of her third monograph in English (expected in 2024), Lure of the Supreme Joy: Pedagogy and Environment in the Neo-Confucian Academies of Zhu Xi, in Brill's renowned book series Sinica Leidensia.
Nikki Santiago remained busy over the last year, exhibiting in two solo and five group exhibitions. Of note were a well-received solo show at Atheneum Gallery in Alexandra, VA, and the Bethesda Painting Awards in Bethesda, MD, where Santiago was awarded first prize. Both exhibitions received reviews in the Washington Post. For reviews of the exhibition, see Mark Jenkins, “Bethesda Painting Awards.” The Washington Post, Jun 23, 2023, and “In the Galleries: Magical Images of the Ordinary,” The Washington Post, Mar 10, 2023.
Elizabeth Moran presented a lecture on "The Geography of Sacred Memory”: Landscapes and Histories in Afro-Caribbean Art, at SECOLAS (Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies) in Antigua, Guatemala, March 2023. She also gave a talk on "Marking Time and Space: Sacred Landscapes in Afro-Caribbean Art" at William & Mary as part of the Latin American Studies Symposium Afro/Indigenous Perspectives, Race and Racism: Towards a New View of Latin American Studies, April 2023. In June 2023, she participated in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Jayson Lowery took 2nd place in the Artists Who Teach 2023 exhibit at the 
Charles H Taylor Visual Art Center in Hampton, Virginia, over the summer for his sculpture Broken Bond.
Sibel Zandi-Sayek co-organized and chaired a panel, “Development Zones at Home and Abroad, 1800-Present,” at the Society of Architectural Historians 76th Annual International Conference in Montreal, Canada. She also served as discussant for the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association’s 
inaugural Yavuz Sezer Article Prize in the History of Architecture and the Urban Environment. This fall, Professor Zandi-Sayek is teaching a new course, Architecture and Spatial Justice, that explores the roots, diverse working methods, and philosophies of contemporary socially engaged architecture.
Brian Kreydatus had a solo exhibition “Homebodies” at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art 
(Virginia Beach, VA) in 2022 and a solo exhibition “Greetings from Williamsburg” at Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina Greensboro opening this month.
Catherine Levesque has been very busy producing new publications. In addition to completing a book on Jacob van Ruisdael's Ecological Landscapes (to be published by Amsterdam University Press), she is develping article manuscripts on "Love and Wisdom at the Bâtie d’Urfé" as well as "Roelandt Savery and the Culture of Mining."
Elizabeth Mead continued working this summer on two long-term projects in France and England. Her work was exhibited in several exhibitions in New York and along the east coast as well as in Berlin and London. She was invited to give the Fine Arts Visiting Lecture titled "Peripheral Moments" at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
John Lee had a painting juried into Hampstead Art Society's Annual Summer Exhibition, June 26 to July 8, at Hampstead Heath, London, U.K. He also had a solo show at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati Ohio (August 18th to September 15th), and his work is featured in a two person show, "Distant & Familial," with Nicole Santiago at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia.
In March, Alan C. Braddock published a new book titled Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History as part of Yale University Press's new Art & Architecture ePortal initiative, a digital resource that makes academic research more accessible and environmentally sustainable. He also gave a lecture on 
“Imagining Personhood: On Building a History of Nonhuman Portraiture in Art” at the Living with Animals Conference, Eastern Kentucky University, March 11, 2023. In November, he will co-chair a panel “On the Slaughter Sublime: Species and the Limits of Solidarity,” American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, November 2-5, 2023.
