Faculty News
Christian Brahe had a solo show, "Inside/Outside", at the Flippo Gallery, Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA.
Eliot Dudik built on a two-year environmental science photography project with his students at the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park in Winter Harbor, ME.
Mike Jabbur exhibited in the American Pottery Festival at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN, where he also co-presented a workshop.
John Lee is currently in a solo show at the Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania (September 16th-October 24th). The work in the show represents a body of paintings that John has worked on over the last three years; a series of studio interiors that focus on the unification of multiple color observations. 
Three of these paintings were recently part of the annual ‘Artists Who Teach’ exhibition at The Charles Taylor Art Center in Hampton, Virginia, in which John won the prize of first place. Earlier this year, John was included in the group exhibition ‘Love Calls Us to the Things of this World’ at the UCM Art Gallery at the University of Central Missouri, as well as ‘Obsolete, a group exhibition at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Images of John’s work may be seen on his website.
Elizabeth Mead, over the past year, was invited to exhibit in NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Dayton, and
London. Locally she exhibited with Page Bond Gallery in Richmond and Linda Matney Gallery in Williamsburg. She co-chaired an art auction through the international collective Pell Lucy that raised over $12,000 for reproductive rights. Over the summer Mead began work on a new project at the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Liz Morán, along with another faculty member from the Latin American Studies program, led a group of students to Arizona in January 2022 for an intense border studies program with the organization Border Links. Students learned about historical and current issues pertaining to the Mexican/US border, but also explored public spaces and murals in the city of Tucson.
Sibel Zandi-Sayek taught the Fourth Annual Art History Senior Colloquium (Spring 2022). The seminar culminated in a two-day conference held at the Muscarelle Museum of Art and featured a keynote lecture and four student panels where majors presented their research on a variety of historical and contemporary topics. 
Professor Zandi-Sayek was a respondent for the workshop Capitalistic Urbanization in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Armenian Agencies at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul; she co-chaired a roundtable, “Architectural Studies Now,” for the annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians in Pittsburgh; and contributed a presentation, “Entangled Artifacts, Ottoman Industrialism and the 1851 Great Exhibition of London,” to the European Association of Urban Historians conference in Antwerp. She also completed a book review for the Journal of Mediterranean Studies and had a session proposal “Development Zones at Home and Abroad, 1800-Present” accepted for the Society of Architectural Historians in Montreal. She is serving for a second year on the jury for the On the Brink Book Award + Lecture.
