Faculty News

Jaroslav Folda

Professor Jaroslav Folda's new book manuscript, Crusader Art in the Holy Land, 1187-1291, now in production by Cambridge University Press, received a major publication subvention from the Millard Meiss fund of the College Art Association of America. (winter 2004).

Professor Folda published eight entries on Icons for the catalogue of the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Byzantium: Faith and Power, 1261-1557.  This show opened on 23 March and will continue to 4 July 2004. Last summer he gave an invited lecture, "Scriptoria and Workshops in Crusader Acre", for an international conference on "Historic Acre: the Crusader City" in Akko, Israel, on 15 July 2003. He has also been invited to lecture on "The Impact of the Fourth Crusade on Crusader Art," at the 6th International Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, to be held in Istanbul, 25-28 August 2004. This conference in being held to observe the 800th anniversary of the Crusader attack on Constantinople in 1204.

Michael Harris

Professor Harris's book, Colored Pictures. Race and Visual Representation, has won two prestigious awards: 2004 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Black Caucus of the American Library Association and Honorable Mention Book Award for the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) at the Triennial Conference.

Jim Hirschfield

Professor Jim Hirschfield has these new public art commissions:

• Paseo del Norte, Albuquerque, NM.
  Leading a design team in the design and construction of a road going through Albuquerque's Petroglyph National Monument.
• Imaginon Library, Charlotte, NC
  Creating a Public art work for Charlotte's New Library and Theater.
• Houston International Airport, Houston, TX
  Creating a work for the new Central IFS Loby of the Houston Airport.

His work was also included in the Thresholds Exhibition. A traveling group exhibition on Spiritual Art.

Mary Sheriff

Professor Mary Sheriff's new book Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France (2004) appeared this winter from the University of Chicago Press. Moved by Love is one of seven books published by the University of Chicago Press and awarded a grant from the J.P. Getty Foundation to support work that crosses the boundary between the history of art and the history of science.

elin o'Hara slavick

elin slavick's works appeared in the following group exhibitions this year:

• News from Home, curated by Moniek Voulon, The Annex, New York, NY
• Felix Variations: Artists Respond to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, curated by Meredith Talusan
• Play Space, California College for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
• The Centralia Show, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
• Women in the Middle: Border, Barriers, Intersections at Walker's Point Center for the Arts and the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
• Active Duty, Armed Artists of America, curated by Lee Wells, Studio 84, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
• Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Art Center, Loveladies, NJ
• Hall of Portraits, curated by Gary Kachadourian, Maryland Institute for the Arts, Baltimore
• Tiny Works, Project Gallery, Wichita, KS
• Bad Touch 6, Beaker Gallery, Tampa FL
• LOOM 3: Labeler, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC. elin also co-curated the exhibition with Jeff Waites
• Edible Art, curated by Gary Sangster, Art Institute of Boston, MA

elin slavick also participated in a panel at the Ackland Art Museum, "Regarding the Pain of Others in Sebastio Salgado's Photographs" The Ackland Art Museum, and a community Discussion: A Response to Self-Portrait Exhibition, Chapel Hill Museum, NC. She presented lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England and the University of Buffalo, NY.

Mary Sturgeon

This year Professor Mary Sturgeon read proofs on her book, Corinth IX:iii: Sculpture, The Assemblage from the Theater, which is being published by the American School of Classical Studies, Princeton, and will appear in summer 2004. Two articles appeared: "Sculpture of the Classical Style at Corinth. 1896-1996," in Corinth XX: The Centenary, 1896-1996, Centennial Celebrations of the Corinth Excavations, Athens, December 1996, edited by C. K. Williams II and N. Bookidis, Princeton 2003, pp. 351-368; and "Dedications of Roman Theaters," in Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr (Hesperia Supplement 33), edited by Anne P. Chapin, American School of Classical Studies, Princeton 2004, 411-429. This substantial volume provides a very handsome tribute to Professor Sara Immerwahr and contains contributions by many of her former students at UNC. Professor Sturgeon will be in Rome next year as Professor-in-Charge of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies

Dorothy Verkerk

Professor Dorothy Verkerk had her book, Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004.

Jeff Whetstone

Jeff Whetstone is involved in a group exhibition entitled New American Talent, curated by Jerry Saltz, the art critic for the Village Voice. The exhibition starts this summer in Austin Texas and tours for two years.