Associate Professor of Art Tanya Sheehan is one of twelve contributors to a new book edited by Jordan Bear and Kate Palmer Albers. Published by Bloomsbury, Before-and-After Photography: Histories and Contexts examines the central position of this photographic genre in a wide range of contexts from the 19th century to the present. Sheehan’s essay, titled “Staging Emancipation:...
In October, Véronique Plesch lead a tour for Colby Alumni in Northern Italy and Southern France. Undiscovered Italy took the participants to a slew of stunning sites, most of which are seldom visited by tourists, and many of which Plesch has written about.
Jette Professor of Art, Ankeney Weitz, presented her lecture, “Zao Wou-Ki’s Synthetic Vision” in Taiwan on September 19, 2017. The lecture was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Taipei, Taiwan.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Saskia Beranek, has a newly published essay, “Govert Flinck and the Houses of Orange and Brandenburg: Networks and Influence,” in Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck: New Research, ed. Stephanie Dickey (Zwolle: WBooks, 2017) The book accompanies exhibitions currently on view at both the Rembrandthuis Museum and the Amsterdam Museum highlighting the work...
Associate Professor Gary Green will show his photographs from Along the Golden Road (2008) and Along the Golden Road, Part II (2017), in a group show organized by the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts and the University of Southern Maine. The exhibition, a celebration of the bicentennial of the birthday of Henry David Thoreau, is titled after a quote...
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch published an essay titled “On Appropriations,” a revised version of the keynote address she delivered June 1, 2016, at the International Word and Image Conference: Crossing Borders—Appropriations and Collaborations (organized by the College of the Holy Cross, the Université Paris-Diderot, and the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon). The essay appears in a special issue...
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch delivered a keynote address titled “Copies: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” at “La reproduction des images et des textes,” 11e colloque international de l’IAWIS/AIERTI, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, July 10–14, 2017. In her lecture, Plesch considered the remarkably heterogeneous and unstable way in which copies and the practice...
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch concluded her third term in August 2017 as president of the International Association of Word and Image Studies. At the association’s triennial conference in July in Lausanne, Switzerland, Plesch stepped down from the position she has held since 2008. She will continue serving on the association’s advisory board. Founded in...
In July 2017 Associate Professor Tanya Sheehan will serve as a guest lecturer at the Terra Foundation’s summer program in Giverny, France. Founded in 2001, the Terra Summer Residency brings together doctoral scholars of American art and emerging artists worldwide for a nine-week residential program in the historic village of Giverny, France. Sheehan will share her...
Gary Green’s photographs are included in the Portland Art Museum’s (Portland, Oregon) Recent Photography Acquisitions. The two photographs, from his series “Terrain Vague” are part of a group of eight that the museum acquired in 2016. The exhibition, which runs until July 22 and includes the work of such notable photographers as Robert Adams, Emmet...
