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Undergraduate Students-News, 2003-04

Dorothy Fletcher, Director of Undergraduate Studies, recently organized several student visits to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Thirty Art History majors, minors, and ARTHIST 101 students attended the Ansel Adams and Edward Hopper exhibitions in October, 2003. Fifteen ARTHIST 101 students saw the statue of David by Verrocchio in November, and fifteen ARTHIST 102 students visited the Whistler exhibit in January, 2004.

Congratulations to Mark Binford, a senior fulfilling the joint major in Art History and History, who was selected to be one of 50 "viewer participants" in the 5th Gwangju Biennale, an international art exhibition, to be held in Gwangju, South Korea, September 10 - November 13, 2004. Mar was recommended by Chika Okeke, a graduate student in the PhD program in Art History at Emory, who is one of seven curators working on the exhibition. The 50 participants, a broad group ranging from students and scholars to well-known writers and activists, will be actively engaged in the process of preparing for this exhibition and can recommend artists to be included. Mark already participated in a workshop in Gwangju this past January 10 - 14.

The honors students in Art History for 2003-04 are Anne Lovatt (joint major with History), Scott Walker, Lisa Boutin, Amy Briggs, Mark Binford (joint major with History), and Julie Norris.

Congratulations to the following winners of the ART HISTORY PAPER PRIZE for this year!
There was a tie for first place, shared by:
Peter Clericuzio, for “Intricacies of Placement: The Strategies of Planning on the Classical Akropolis”, written for Prof. Bonna Wescoat in ARTHIST 329: Ancient Greek Architecture (Spring 2003). Peter is an Art History major, an Architectural Studies minor, and a junior.
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Plamena Milusheva, for “The Yale Art and Architecture School: Relative Success or Functional Failure?”, written for Prof. Judith Rohrer in ARTHIST 369: Architecture After Modernism (Fall 2003). Plamena is an Architectural Studies minor and a junior.

In addition, an Honorable Mention goes to Jennifer Federovitch, for “Gehry House”, also written for Prof. Judith Rohrer in ARTHIST 369: Architecture After Modernism (Fall 2003). As a graduating minor in both Art History and Visual Arts, her name and award will be cited in the Commencement Program.

Quite by chance, architecture ruled this year!

In addition to the distinction of winning, all three winners will receive a monetary prize and lunch with the professors for whom they wrote the papers. In the past these awards were announced and bestowed in the ceremonial context of the annual reception for our graduating majors and minors. However, because of low student interest in this event in recent years, it will no longer take place.

In general, all three winning papers had strong, even original theses, with well-developed support. The writing in all three was clear, concise, and lively. The Committee felt that the entire batch of papers (total: eight) was one of the best ever, in conception, originality, and writing, and that the papers speak well of our program.

Dorothy Fletcher
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Art History

Professors Bonna Wescoat (Art History 259: Greek Art and the Classical Tradition), Cynthia Patterson (History 301: History of Greece), and Richard Patterson (Philosophy 240: Philosophy of Art) took their students on a field trip to see the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee (February 28, 2004). Dorothy Fletcher, Jasper Gaunt, and Dorinda Evans also helped organize the trip.

Professors Rebecca Stone-Miller (ARTHIST 384) and William B. Size (ENVS 384) co-taught a course called "Art and Environment in Costa Rica" in January, 2003. Eleven students and two faculty members traveled to Costa Rica for the field trip portion of the class. Professor Stone-Miller reports that the group went to the National Museum in San Jose, the Gold Museum, the Jade Museum, and Poas Volcano (they walked down into the crater). They also went to an ancient mound site called Guayabo de Turrialba, three national parks in the northwestern area called Guanacaste, and the Nicoya Peninsula, including a 60-foot descent on a swinging ladder into a cave at a national park called Barra Honda. Click here to see a photo of the class at a waterfall (photo taken by William B. Size). The course will be offered again in fall, 2004, with the field trip in January, 2005.