Department News

Amanda Zeilinger ’19, a studio art and art history double major from Shaker Heights, Ohio, tells us about her senior capstone experience, or ‘Comps,’ in support of her studio art degree.

Associate Professor of Art History, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the College Art Association on February 14. Presenting on a panel on the topic “Being With: Thoughts on the Collective,” his paper, titled “Common Ground: Haus-Rucker-Co’s Food City and Collaborative Design Practice,” considered a series of performances by the Austrian architecture design collective Haus-Rucker-Co for which scale models of various cities made out of cake were ritually devoured by citizens of those cities. This essay will appear in the Walker Art Center’s online Living Collections Catalog later this summer.

William Lanzillo ’19, a studio art and psychology double major with an Africana studies minor from Glen Ellyn, Ill., tells us about his senior capstone experience, or ‘Comps,’ in support of his studio art degree.

Fred Hagstrom will give an Artist Talk at the Bainbridge Museum of Art on March 31, 2019. During this talk, Fred will discuss the context of his body of work and focus on two specific books that speak of the Seattle area and Japanese American history.

Alison Kettering, William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of Art History Emerita, led a seminar on the theory and practice of 17^th-century Dutch watercolored drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, on October 19, 2018. The seminar consisted of a 30-minute overview followed by a discussion of Dutch watercolors among the faculty members, curators, donors, and grad students who participated.

Stephen Mohring and David Lefkowitz, Professors of Art, are featured in Through the Windmill, a film about mini-golf that premiered at the Twin Cities Film Fest October 20. Their collaborative contribution to the Walker Art Center’s Artist Designed Mini-Golf Course, 18 Holes-in-One, is immortalized in this gripping documentary.

Jessica Keating, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, co-authored with Lia Markey the article “Response: Medievalists and Early Modernists- A World Divided?” in the book, “Re-Assessing the Global Turn in Medieval Art History” edited by Christina Normore and published by Amersterdam University Press.

Fred Hagstrom, the Carleton College Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Art, presented the college’s annual “Argument & Inquiry Seminar” convocation on September 21. The title of his presentation was “Deepening the Habit of Learning, Fostering Curiosity and Imagination for a Lifetime.”

Alison Kettering, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Art History, Emerita, announces the publication of the Summer 2018 issue (vol. 10:2) of the refereed, open-access Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (jhna.org).