Faculty News, Spring Semester, 2005

Jaroslav Folda

Professor Jaroslav Folda is speaking at the 4th Annual Marco Symposium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville on February 24 and 25, 2005.  The theme for this year is: "Interaction and Images: Cultural Contacts Across Eurasia 600-1600". Professor Folda's talk will discuss, "Crusader and Mongol/Mamluk Artistic Interaction in the 13th Century."

Beth Grabowski

Professor Beth Grabowski is curating two portfolio/exhibitions at the moment. The first is entitled "Domestic Policy". It has gathered thirty artists from around the country to respond to the theme of "Domestic Policy" - from housework and domestic relationships to political themes such as the Patriot Act. This portfolio will have an exhibition debut at the District Fine Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C. in April. (DFA gallery director Seth Rosenberg is a UNC alumni!)
Professor Grabowski's second portfolio project has just begun - she has been asked to organize an international portfolio to honor Kathe Kollwitz. Kollwitz died in 1945. This will mark the 60th anniversary of her death. The portfolio will have twenty participants from around the world who will make a print image responding to the works of Kathe Kollwitz. It will be exhibited in the Kollwitz Museum in Berlin in September, 2005, coinciding with the International Impact Conference on Printmaking held in Berlin and Poznan, Poland.

Michael Harris

Professor Michael Harris has had numerous exhibitions this year including: the "One-Man Show" at the Sonya Haynes Center Gallery, the Faculty Biennial at the Ackland Art Museum, and an exhibition at Duke University in April, 2005. He has also been appointed Curatorial Consultant for African American Art at the High Museum in Atlanta, GA.

Professor Harris also has the following articles pending for the year of 2005:
- An exhibition publication at the Gibbs Museum in Charleston, SC (2006), and the Palmer Museum at Penn State in late 2005.
- An anthology, "Art From Start to Finish" for the University of Chicago Press originated by Howard Becker and the Social Science Research Council.
- An article for "They Called Her Hottentot: The Art, Science, and Fiction of Sarah Baartman, Author/Editor: Deborah Willis and Carla Williams; Temple University Press (2005).
- Two articlces in encyclopedias to be published in 2005.
 

Jim Hirschfield

Professor Jim Hirschfield is working on six projects across the nation: A library in San Jose, CA, an overpass in Phoenix, AZ, a road in Albuquerque, NM, a transit station in Minneapolis, MN, the airport in Houston, TX, and a library in Charlotte, NC.

elin o'hara slavick

Professor elin o'hara slavick's work is included in the January-February exhibition "Image Acts, an Amnesty International Project: And So Forth: A Post-Inaugural Assembly," selected by Whitney Museum of Art curators Aspara DiQuinzio and Tina Kukielski at the Glass House Gallery, Williamsburg, Brookyln, NY. Her work will also be included in "Paper Politics" at the Phinney Gallery in Seattle, WA in February. Her work is part of the year-long exhibition of NC artists, "Crosscurrents," opening at the NC Museum of Art this summer and continuing at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. She will also lecture on her work at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in February. She is pregnant with her second child. 

Mary Sturgeon

Mary Sturgeon's book, Corinth IX, iii: The Sculptural Assemblage from the Theater, has been published by The American School of Classical Studies, Princeton, 2004. This academic year she is Professor-in-Charge of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome which has her teaching a wide range of monuments, from Southern Etruria and Rome through Campania and Sicily. She has given a talk for the American Academy on the architecture and sculptures of the Palazzo Altemps in Rome.

Jeff Whetstone

Professor Jeff Whestone was selected as a visiting lecturer by the Yale University School of Art Photography Program for Spring 2005. He will also be included in the North Carolina Museum of Arts and the Mint Museum's group exhibitions "Connections" in 2005-2006. Duke Universtiy has invited him to speak on Landscape on February 14th at 7pm in the John Hope Franklin Center. Professor Whetstone will also be exhibiting at Duke in their group exhibition - Road in Sight in April.

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