Recent Achievements in Art History

Art History students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art have recently accomplished several notable achievements.

On March 29, two undergraduate students presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Art History Forum at the University of West Georgia. Rudy Trujilo, an undergraduate student in Art History, presented a paper called Divine Frenzy: Michelangelo’s ‘Bacchus’ and Neoplatonic Thought. Rudy Trujillo’s paper was completed for Dr. Zuraw’s ARHI4290 in the fall.

Julianne Miao, an Art History and Marketing double major presented research on Félix González-Torres’s Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.). Her paper, Félix González-Torres’s Portrait of Ross in L.A.: Unmaking Binary Law, was a research paper conducted in Dr. Nell Andrew’s Modern Art and Dance class. Miao continued her research with Dr. Andrew as a CURO project the next semester. She also received the $1000 CURO assistantship to go see the work of art in the Art Institute of Chicago to supplement her research.

Miao also recently accepted an offer from the Reynolda House Museum of American Art at Wake Forest University as their Curatorial Fellow.  The program is funded by the Walton and Ford foundation, and Miao will be in Winston-Salem for a year starting in July. She will work closely with the curator, Allison Slaby, including curating her own gallery.

Students also recently presented research in the 26th Annual Women’s Studies Student Research Symposium at the Miller Learning Center here at the University of Georgia. “Feminist Research Across the Disciplines” took place on Friday, March 29, 2019. The Institute for Women’s Studies’ Annual Student Research Symposium is designed to foster research in women’s studies. Both undergraduate and graduate students were encouraged to submit papers and presentations on a wide variety of feminist issues.

Bianca Garcia, an undergraduate major in Art History and Women’s Studies, presented her work “Ecofeminist Theory in Film: Princess Mononoke” in the session titled “Ready, Set, Action! Take 4: A Feminist Take on Television and Film”. Bianca also presented “Electric Hearts: Reimagining the Futurist Human-Machine Hybrid” in the session titled “Feminist (Re)imaginings of Art”.

Taylor Glennon, a Graduate-Art History student, presented in “Feminist (Re)imaginings of Art” as well, with a paper titled “Anatomical Venuses & the Legacy of the Renaissance”. Emily DuVall, who is also a Graduate Art History Student, participated in the session “Representation, The Body, Autonomy” with her paper, “Diana and the Hunt: Myth and Allegory in the Court of Francis I”. Taylor Glennon and Emily DuVall, both MA students working with Dr. Zuraw, are on track to receive their degrees in May, 2019. Emily DuVall has been accepted with a full scholarship to the PhD program in art history at UNC Chapel Hill, where she will start in the fall.