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Women by Women: Works from UMW’s Permanent Collection
Curated and organized by the UMW Galleries Interns:– Madeleine Almand– Jasmine Nixon– Julia (Mary) Pertracca– Alana White Faculty Mentor: Professor Jon McMillan Ridderhof Martin Gallery proudly presents, Women by Women: Works from UMW’s Permanent Collection. UMW Galleries Interns Madeleine Almand, Jasmine Nixon, Julia Pertracca and Alana White worked throughout the semester to curate this exhibition. …
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UMW Studio Art Senior Exhibition 2022
Featuring work by: Kelsey AguirreHope BakerColleen CragunWilliam DaigerJasper DrillingJasmine FolsonCarolyn FugitMelina FurchesMaya KirkpatrickMegan LandisMatthew MattocksKendall McCrackenJess OertlePage OlsenKatie RagoneCaitlin SmithAlise ThalerRebecca VisgerEmily Warren
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Annual Student Art Exhibition 2022
Featuring Artwork by: Colleen CragunJasper DrillingEmily WarrenCaroline PattonJuliette SanusiEmma BowerShanna AberleJenell PolingCarolyn FugitJenna MontijoAzaria LewisJalen WhiteMegan LandisMatthew NguyenTaylor WhiteJulia RizzoLeah BrinkleyMandy ByrdShea MartinMackenzie HoffmanSallie WittkamperRebecca VisgerLisa GisselquistElla SchmehlMargaret NeafseyMaeve Powers GilmartinOlivia BredaBlaine HowerSara ZhouEllianna BowmanKendall McCrackenPaula Zuleta Juried by Aaron Fine
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Goddess of France, 1745-1764: Madame de Pompadour and the Rococo Traditions of 18th-Century French Portraiture
By Meredith Glasco The reign of Louis XV of France was spectacular in its advancement of the Late Rococo period due to the patronage of Madame de Pompadour, his head mistress from 1745-1764. Her upbringing as an educated woman in court would influence trends of Late Rococo that she would use to embellish her own…
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East Versus West: The National Gallery of Art’s Relationship to Modern Art and Architecture
By Meredith Glasco The National Gallery of Art is a modern piece of art itself throughout its split galleries; the West Building (the original) and the East Building (the addition). This study seeks to identify the importance of the East Building in relation to modern architecture and modern and contemporary art through three main means:…
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Meta Warrick Fuller and the Synthesis of Feminist and African American Sculpture
By Maya Kirkpatrick The Black Female image stands as the most politically charged and symbolically powerful subject in American Art. She has once been used as a tool to degrade and control African American women and their bodies, and now represents resilience and empowerment to a community. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller is the first African…
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Performative Disability: The Objectification of Atypical Physiognomy in the Self-Portraits of Egon Schiele
By Sophia Maldonado By the early-twentieth century, developments in medicine and psychology tremendously influenced the visual arts. From the medical photography of the Salpêtrière to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, the cultural attitudes and understandings of illnesses and treatments were available to artists whose work engaged with the medical community during this time. The…
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Refashioning the Classical Body as the Modern Body:The Venus de Milo, Disability Aesthetics, and Disabled Women’s Experiences
By Mario Martinez The Classical body’s grasp on art history has never faded, from antiquity, through the renaissance, to modernity. Excluding the avant-garde movements during the first decade of the twentieth century, a general trend in modern art has been to refashion the Classical body as the modern body. The latter bloomed in post-World War…
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Arcade TV: A Mixed-Reality Experience
By Madyson May Faculty advisor: Dr. Jason Robinson 3:00-3:50pm, HCC 328 Taking inspiration from previous projection-based works such as Christopher Schardt’s 2019 “Nova” exhibit and Walt Disney World’s “Minnie and Mickey’s Runaway Railway,” Arcade TV aims to immerse audiences in a way that brings the digital to the physical plane. The project is a mixed-reality art piece that…
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URES 197: Disability and Art History for Undergraduate Research and Fellow Students
By Maya Kirkpatrick, and Mario Martinez Faculty mentor: Dr. Julia DeLancey 9:00-9:50am HCC 327 The aim of this project was to develop a chapter in the style of Anne D’Alleva’s Methods and Theories of Art History, a seminal text in the ARTH 303: Methods of Art History course. D’Alleva’s text provides an introduction and overview…
