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faculty newsDaniel EhnbomMatthew Affron contributed essays on Bloomsbury,Sonia Delaunay, and Fernand Léger in: Leah Dickerman,Inventing Abstraction: 1910–1925 (New York: The Museumof Modern Art, 2012). Dr. Affron also curated theexhibition Émilie Charmy, which was on view at The FralinMuseum of Art from August 23 through December 22,2013. The exhibition will travel to the Arts Club ofChicago in the spring of 2014.Paul Barolsky’s essay, “Michelangelo and the Power ofMcIntire Department of Artthe Imagination” is the introduction to the catalogue forthe current exhibition of the artist’s work at the NationalMuseum of Western Art in Tokyo.6Sarah Betzer had a fruitful year: not only did she receivetenure from the university; in March, 2013 she publishedthe well-received essay “Ingres’s Shadows” in thecentennial edition of The Art Bulletin. Dr. Betzer alsocontributed a catalogue entry on Gertrude Kasebier forthe exhibition A Generous Medium: Photography atWellesley 1972–2012 and an essay on Marie d’Agoult forthe compendium Plumes et Pinceaux—Discours de femmessur l’art en Europe (1750–1850). With the support of aFranklin Research Grant from the American PhilosophicalSociety, she spent the summer of 2013 in Paris pursuingresearch for a book project that is underway: Antiquityand the Body after Archaeology.Bruce Boucher lectured on Bartolo di Fredi at theMuseum of Biblical Art and gave a “More than the Score”lecture on Palladio and Jefferson on September 1.In addition to serving on the College Art Association’sMuseum Committee, Dr. Boucher also served on theUniversity’s Arts Strategic Planning Committee and waselected to the Association of Art Museum Directorsin December 2013. Dr. Boucher’s online bibliography ofAndrea Palladio was recently published by OxfordUniversity Press.Daniel Ehnbom co-directed the National Endowmentfor the Humanities July 2013 Institute, in which 24competitively chosen U.S. college and university professorsNEH Institute: India’s Past and the Making of the Presentfrom two- and four-year institutions participated in theproject, “India’s Past and the Making of the Present,”conducted in Delhi, Agra, and Varanasi. In May,Dr. Ehnbom gave the lecture, “For Gods and Kings:Themes and Styles of Indian Painting,” at the PortlandMuseum of Art in Portland, Oregon.Francesca Fiorani co-edited with Alessandro Nova thevolume Leonardo da Vinci and Optics: Theory and PictorialPractice (2013) and wrote four essays on various aspectsof the scientific knowledge of the young Leonardo daVinci. She co-organized with Marcia Hall two sessionson the Materiality of Colors at the annual conference forthe Renaissance Society of America in San Diego andhas given papers in Berlin, Paris and Florence.Douglas Fordham has been developing a series of newundergraduate classes for a range of new teachingformats including a Pavilion Seminar on “Nature asSymbolic Form”, an upper-level colloquium on “Art andthe British Empire,” and an introductory seminar on“Art and War.” He also completed the last two essays inwhat he half-jokingly refers to as his ‘George StubbsTrilogy’: “The Thoroughbred in British Art,” now appearingin The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2013), and “George Stubbs’s The Zebraand the Spectacle of Fine Art,” to appear in The Cultureof the Seven Years’ War: Empire, Identity, and the Arts.(University of Toronto Press, late 2013). Douglas has hadthe pleasure of seeing thirteen PhD candidates receivediplomas that were completed and defended thispast academic year and will be continuing his work asDirector of Graduate Studies for 2013–2014.Larry Goedde’s essay surveying Renaissance andBaroque landscape traditions appeared in A Companionto Renaissance and Baroque Art (Wiley Blackwell, 2013).He also curated the exhibition, Traces of the Hand:Master Drawings from the Collection of Frederick and Lucy S.Herman, shown at UVA’s The Fralin Museum of Artduring the spring semester 2013. Highlighting 70 of the256 drawings in the collection and surveying the styles

Maurie McInnnisand subjects the collection embraces, the show alsooffered the opportunity to publish student research onthese drawings in the form of an on-line catalogue thatcan be found at: /index.html. The student research wasconducted in Larry’s graduate and undergraduateseminars from 2005 through 2012.Megan Marlatt’s most recent exhibition, Substitutionsfor a Game Never Played, held at the True F. Luck Galleryof The Visual Arts Center in Richmond, VA, opened inearly 2013 to high praise. In addition to her studio work,she also recently conducted a Big Head (or “Capgrosso”)making workshop with the Spanish artists Ventura andHosta at UVA and The Visual Arts Center of Richmondduring the spring of 2013. Ms. Marlatt just finishedorganizing and participating in “ArtLab @ MLBS,”a program that brought 12 artists, art students andalumni to the UVA Mountain Lake Biological Stationfor a 3-week artist-in-residency program.Douglas FordhamPavillion Seminar: Nature as Symbolic FormIn 2013, Pamela Pecchio participated in several groupand solo exhibitions. Her work was shown at the RISDMuseum of Art in Providence, RI, the Indianapolis Museumof Contemporary Art, the North Carolina Museum of Artin Raleigh, NC, among several other venues.Eric Ramirez-Weaver wrote the article “CarolingianManuscript Illumination” for Oxford Bibliographies Online:Medieval Studies. In addition, he presented his paper,“Reading the Heavens: Revelation and Reification in theAstronomical Anthology for Wenceslas IV,” for the5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium onManuscript Studies in the Digital Age at the SchoenbergInstitute for Manuscript Studies, University ofPennsylvania and Free Library, Philadelphia.Congratulations are in order for Maurie McInnis, whoin January, 2013 was appointed Vice Provost for AcademicAffairs. Over the past year, she has given severallectures related to her most recent book, Slaves Waitingfor Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade.This exceptional book was awarded both the Library ofVirginia Literary Award for non-fiction (2012) andthe Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Charles C.Eldridge Prize for outstanding scholarship in the field ofAmerican Art, 2012.Over the past year, Tyler Jo Smith has publishedseveral articles and given a number of lectures, includingher most recent, “Teaching Death on Site,” presented atthe annual meeting of the Classical Association of theMiddle West and South at the University of Iowa.In April, 2013, Dr. Smith accompanied four graduatestudents from the Classical Art and Archaeology Programto this annual meeting held in Iowa City. There, theypresented papers at a panel, co-organized by Dr. Smithand recent PhD recipient Carrie Sulosky Weaver,on the topic “Between Hypnos and Thanatos: TeachingGreek Death.” During the summer of 2013, Dr. Smithaccompanied several current UVA students and alumnito the excavations at Hacimusalar, Höyük, Turkey, whereshe served as a Pottery and Sculpture Specialist.Alyssa Mumtaz joined the department in 2012.Dorothy Wong’s edited volume, China and Beyond in theMs. Mumtaz participated in both group and solo exhibitionsover the past year, including the group exhibitionIlluminated Geographies: Pakistani Miniaturist Practice inthe Wake of the Global Turn at Tufts University Art Gallery.The exhibition was featured in “Origin, Departure,”a collaborative project with art history graduate studentMurad Khan Mumtaz. In August, 2012, Alyssa wasan artist in residence at Santa Fe Art Institute.below, top to bottomMegan Marlatt. The Big HeadBrigade at SkowheganPERFORMS,Socrates Park, NYMegan Marlatt. The Big HeadBrigade at The March of theColonels, Louisville, KYDorothy WongMedieval Period: Cultural Crossings and Inter-regionalConnections (co-editor Gustav Heldt) was published infall, 2013, as part of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series(New Delhi: Manohar Publishers; Amherst, NY: CambriaPress). The twenty-one chapters (including one chapterby Wong, another chapter by Eric Ramiréz-Weaver,an epilogue by David Summers and chapters by twoother UVA faculty) in the volume examine trans-regional7

and cross-cultural exchanges between China andneighboring cultures in Central, South, Southeast, andNortheast Asia, as well as contacts among thosecultures from the beginning of the Common Era to thetenth century and beyond. In 2012–13, Wong has alsogiven various talks, including the Robert L. KelloggLecture for the Medieval Studies Program at UVA.In April, 2013, Elizabeth Schoyer lectured at JamesMadison University on the subject of her 2012 soloshow, Natural Histories: Egypt, Antarctica, Suriname andthe Amazonia, shown at Hobart and William SmithColleges in Geneva, New York.William WyliePompeii Steps, 2013Pigmented ink print, 40 x 50 inches8William Wylie was on leave in the fall and inresidence at ART342 in Fort Collins, CO while shootinghis documentary film Prairie, about the six-man footballteam at a small rural school. He followed the teamthrough the entire 2012 season. After that he wasawarded the Yale University Art Museum’s Doran/LeWitt Residency in Praiano, Italy on the Amalfi Coast.He produced a new series of photographs and videopieces in Pompeii and on Mount Vesuvius. His workwas featured in solo and group exhibitions at Yale,The Joslyn Museum of Art and the Amon Carter Museum.He ended the academic year teaching another of thebi-annual Study Abroad classes in Italy where hisstudents made unique pinhole cameras to photographin Rome, Tuscany and Venice.

vrc newsWe’ve transitioned from thumb-tacking mounted studyphotographs to the walls, to implementing websites forimage study in the mid-1990’s, and finally to postingimages directly into the ARTstor image database wherefaculty, teaching assistants, and students can create theirown collections of images for study. For several decadeswe were known as the “Slide Room,” but with the adventof digital media we became the VRC. As the Universityfirst sought to equip each faculty member with a computer,we naturally grew into a departmental resource fortechnological assistance. The Teaching TechnologyInitiative supported our effort to develop a database andwebsite automation tool with a grant in 1999, and theresulting ARTemis database and ARTgus tool provideda working system that met faculty needs when nocommercial solution was available. When digital projectorsgained ubiquity we assisted the faculty still using 35mmslides in making the transition to teaching digitally.For more than ten years, we successfully leveregedARTemis/ARTgus, making tweaks to it along the way.When ARTstor, an image database subscribed to bythe University library, began a pilot program hostinguniversity image collections, the VRC blazed the trailfor other collections at the University. Once that pilotprogram ended, ARTstor offered a fully functionalcataloging subscription service, Shared Shelf, which wehave been working with for three years. New imagecollections from faculty and students have grownorganically from this, and we continue to see a strongdemand for the service of assisting individuals indeveloping their own cataloged image archives.The incredibly rapid pace of technological advancementover past two decades presented a broad range ofchallenges and opportunities, which I believe we met withenthusiasm and creativity. I’m so proud and grateful tohave been a part of this period in the Department’shistory, and I feel confident the next two decades will beequally transformative. Unfortunately, I won’t get toparticipate directly in the future of the VRC and thedepartment, as my family will relocate to Houston in thesummer of 2014. I’m deeply saddened at the prospect ofsaying goodbye to so many good friends and colleagues,and at leaving the community of UVA and Charlottesville,but I look forward to reading about all the excitingdevelopments in the Department and in the lives andcareers of our alumni in future newsletters. With deepestappreciation to all of you who made this such a specialplace over the years.—Leslie RahubaMcIntire Department of ArtWith each passing year the Visual Resources Collection(VRC) continues to grow and evolve in both its reachand services. Having now served as the Director of thecollection for 18 years, I’ve had the pleasure to witnessand facilitate a large portion of that evolution andgrowth, and I’d like to take this opportunity to reflect onthat development.9

alumni newsgraduateart historyLarry Ball (PhD, 1987), professor of Art History at theUniversity of Wisconsin, recently co-authored areport on the Pompeii Forum Project with University ofVirginia’s Dr. John Dobbins for the July 2013 issue of theAmerican Journal of Archaeology. Dr. Ball spent muchof his summer working on the second part of the report,also co-authored with John Dobbins. In addition, Dr. Ballspent three weeks in June and July leading a UWSPInternational Programs Art History course in Italy.Katherine Eve Baker (PhD, 2013) successfullydefended her dissertation this past year and now livesand works in Paris, France as a Chercheure Accueillir forthe Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art.Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research and Exhibitions,McIntire Department of ArtCatherine Craft (MA, 1989), recently published a10book on Robert Rauschenberg (Phaidon Press, 2013) inaddition to essays for Katharina Grosse: Wunderblock(Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2013) and Return toEarth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miro, Noguchi,and Picasso, 1943–1963 (Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center,2013). In January, 2013 Ms. Craft gave a paper at theUniversity of Pennsylvania for the Intimate CollaborationConference entitled “Falling in Love and OtherCollaborative Acts.” Ms. Craft also co-chaired a panelsession on “The Photographic Object” for the 2013College Art Association conference.In addition to working as a Curatorial Associate for theHammer Museum in Los Angeles, Leslie Cozzi (PhD,2012) recently published “Notes on the Index: ItalianFeminism and the Art of Mirella Bentivoglio and Ketty LaRocca” in Cahiers d’Etudes Italiennes (vol. 16).Anne Derbes (PhD, 1980), Professor of Art History atHood College, has been working on a forthcoming essayentitled “Patronage, Gender and Generation in LateMedieval Italy: Fina Buzzacarini and the Baptistery ofPadua,” in Medieval Patronage: Patronage, Power and Agencyin Medieval Art, edited by Colum Hourihane and to bepublished by Penn State University Press. In February2013, Dr. Derbes gave a talk with Mark Sandona at thesymposium, “Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance,”held at the J. Paul Getty Museum.Jill Deupi (PhD, 2006), Founding Director and ChiefCurator of the Bellarmine Museum of Art at FairfieldUniversity, has recently published several exhibitioncatalogues including Excavation: Recent Photographs byStanley Greenberg (April 2013) and Collen Browning(January 2013). In November 2013, Dr. Deupi delivereda lecture entitled “The Art of Seeing: Collaboratingwith Students in the Medical Arts,” at the NEMA AnnualConference.In addition to being kept busy by his two young children,Andrew Graciano (PhD, 2002), Associate Professorof Art History and Associate Chair and GraduateDirector of the Department of Art at the University ofSouth Carolina, has been hard at work on hisforthcoming edited volume, Alternative Venues: Solo andThematic Art Exhibitions, 1775–1999.Joyce Bernstein Howell (PhD, 1988) is a Professor ofArt History at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, VA.Carolyn W. Ihde (MA, 1981) works as the Director ofLucas Public Library in Lucas, Kansas.Fredrika Jacobs (PhD, 1979), Professor Emeritus inthe Department of Art History at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, recently published Votive Panel Paintings andPopular Devotion in Italy, circa 1470–1610 (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2013).SeungJung Kim (MA, 2004) is a MellonInterdisciplinary Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centerfor Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) at ColumbiaUniversity. In the fall of 2013, SeungJung worked asan Assistant Professor in Greek Art and Archaeology inthe Department of Art, University of Toronto.Gretchen Kreahling McKay (PhD, 1997), AssociateProfessor of Art History for McDaniel College and Chairof the Department of Art and Art History, will presenttwo “Reacting to the Past” modules at the 13th annualReacting to the Past Faculty Institute at Barnard College.The modules will focus on Byzantine iconoclasm and artin Paris, 1888–89.

Catherine CraftAnne DerbesNorman Land (PhD, 1974) is a Professor of ItalianRenaissance Art and Baroque Art at the University ofMissouri-Columbia. In 2012 he published two articles inSource: Notes in the History of Art.Faith Lee (MA, 1990) is employed as a ReferenceLibrarian for the Falmouth Public Library in Falmouth, MA.In February, 2013, Ismini Miliaresis (Ph.D., 2013)successfully defended her dissertation, “Heating andFuel Consumption in the Termo del Foro at Ostia.” Overthe past year, Dr. Miliaresis has presented papers at the2012 Annual Meeting of CAMWS Southern Section inTallahassee, the 2013 Annual Meeting of the ArchaeologicalInstitute of America in Seattle, and the Annual GraduateArchaeology Conference at Oxford, UK.Robin O’Bryan (PhD, 2000), adjunct faculty memberof Harrisburg Area Community College in Harrisburg,PA, presented a paper at the Renaissance Society Conference of America in San Diego, CA. Her most recentarticle, “Grotesque Bodies, Princely Delight: Dwarfs inItalian Renaissance Court Imagery” appeared in the 2012issue of Preternature: Critical Studies on the Preternatural.Eric E. Poehler (PhD, 2009), Assistant Professor ofClassics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,has been busy working on several publications, includinghis most recent book, still in preparation, entitled TheTraffic System at Pompeii. Dr. Poehler is the recent recipientof several grants and awards, including The AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship.Etta Marie Sepe (Saunders) (PhD, 1998), aContract Specialist for the Defense Threat ReductionAgency in Fort Belvoir, VA, recently delivered the talk“Patents, You, and the DD 882” at the DTRA Contract’sOffice Training Week.Monica Shenouda (PhD, 2010), teaches the History ofItalian Renaissance Art at Pepperdine University in Florence.Jill DeupiFredrika JacobsAmerican Culture Association on the subject, “WhatWould You Do?: Mike Malloy’s Insure the Life of an Ant.”Linda Crocker Simmons is a Curator Emerita of theCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. She consultswith the Alice Ferguson Foundation and frequentlywrites for their publications and websites.Paula Warrick (MA, 1988) is employed as theDirector of the Office of Merit Awards for the AmericanUniversity Career Center.After successfully defending her dissertation in January,2013, Carrie Sulosky Weaver (PhD, 2013)subsequently was named the Kenneth P. Dietrich Schoolof Arts and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at theUniversity of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Weaveralso presented a paper at the 109th Annual Meeting ofthe Classical Association of the Middle West and Southon the topic, “Between Hypnos and Thanatos: TeachingGreek Death. Perceptions of Death and Disease.”In April 2013, Dan Weiss (PhD, 2012), AssistantDirector of the Visual Resources Collection at theUniversity of Virginia, gave a lecture at Virginia Techentitled Mapping the War Zone: Digital Archaeologyon the Roman Frontier. In addition, Dr. Weiss hascomposed a forthcoming entry in the Dictionary of LateAntiquity on “Frontier, Roman Military, Danube.”Barbara Zabel (PhD, 1978), Professor Emeritus of ArtHistory at Connecticut College, recently curated andwrote the catalogues for two exhibitions at the LymanAllyn Art Museum in New London, CT: America @ Work:New Deal Murals in New London and Beyond (2012)and Pop Goes the Easel: Pop Art and Its Progeny (2013).In addition to her curatorial work, she has also been busygiving a lecture series for the Florence GriswoldMuseum in Old Lyme, CT entitled “Ashcan to Soup Can:The Vernacular in American Art.”Gerald Silk (PhD, 1976), Professor of Modern andContemporary Art and Chair of the Department of ArtHistory of Temple University, recently gave a lecture inWashington, DC for the Popular Culture Association and11

alumni newsundergraduateart historyPhD Candidate Kelly Ann Accetta (2010) studiesarchaeology in the Department of Anthropology andArchaeology at the University of Cambridge, UK.Ms. Accetta has given several conference papers overthe past year, including, “King of Kings—The Life andDeath of Ramses the Great,” given at the 2013 SidneySussex College Graduate Conference in Cambridge, UK.An essay by Ms. Accetta may be found in CurrentResearch in Egyptology 2012: Proceedings of the ThirteenthAnnual Symposium.Katherine Wright Baumgartner (1983) is theDirector of Godel & Co., Inc., a fine arts gallery in NewYork City that specializes in 19th- and early 20th-centuryAmerican paintings.Artist Stephanie Beck (1998) lives and works inBrooklyn, NY. In

international programs for undergraduates, graduates, post-doctoral scholars and for alumni, as well as its collaboration with units across the University. One of the most enduring is the collaboration with the UVA Art Museums and four faculty members cura