Love museums and learning about art? IC’s new concentration in museum studies may be for you. Launched last fall by the Department of Art History, the concentration will feature traditional classes and frequent field trips.

Jennifer Jolly, Associate Professor in the the Department of Art History, has received an NEH Research Fellowship for her project "Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas's Legacy as a Nation Builder through His Art Patronage in Michoacan’s Lake District." The research is part of Professor Jolly's book-in-progress Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico, which examines Lázaro Cardenas’ extensive patronage in and around Pátzcuaro and pairs it with a history of images of this region in considering how the area figures historically in the post-revolutionary re-imagining of Mexico.

Itohan Osayimwese, Assistant Professor of Art History received the 2012 Jeffrey Cook Award from the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE).

In June 2012, Itohan Osayimwese, Assistant Professor of Art History, participated in a German script course at Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA. Participants of the course were filmed by French-German TV newtork “Arte” for a segment on German culture in the United States. 

The Handwerker Gallery is pleased to announce that Mara Baldwin will continue as assistant director for the 2012–2013 academic year.

Baldwin, who holds a B.A. in Art History and Studio Arts from Wesleyan University and a M.F.A. in Drawing and Textiles from the California College of...