Prof. Antonia Behan to speak at ROM's Inside Mobile Palace

Art History Professor Antonia Behan is a scheduled speaker for the Royal Ontario Museum's Inside Mobile Palace, the online event centred around the ROM's current exhibition, Swapnaa Tamhane: Mobile Palace. Running May 11, 11am-12pm ET, Prof. Behan joins the ROM's Dan Mishra Curator of South Asian Arts and Culture, Deepali Dewan, and artist Swapnaa Tamhane for a 45-minute presentation on the exhibit, followed by a live Q&A with viewers. 

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Video: Prof. Bevilacqua discusses her exhibition, "Agnaldo Manuel dos Santos – the Conquest of Modernity”

Professor Juliana Bevilacqua, Queen’s National Scholar in the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, recently curated the exhibition “Agnaldo Manuel dos Santos – the Conquest of Modernity” at the Almeida & Dale Gallery in São Paulo.

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Art Conservation presents "Corrosion and Adhesion: Evaluating Material Properties Over Time"

Date

Wednesday April 27, 2022
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location

Online

On April 27, 2022 from 12pm-1:30pm ET via Zoom, Queen's Art Conservation Program presents Megan Creamer, Isabel Bader Fellow in Art Conservation, on "Corrosion and Adhesion: Evaulating Material Properties Over Time".

The event is free with registration.

The Isabel Bader Fellowship supports new research and sharing of expertise in the field of art conservation. For the past two years, Megan Creamer has been undertaking research projects in conservation and connecting their knowledge base to the work of the Queen’s Master of Art Conservation students. Megan will present their research methodology, key findings, and future questions from two projects: green coatings for preventing corrosion on outdoor steel sculpture, and the evaluation of adhesives for cellulose acetate. Both projects assessed novel materials to be used in the conservation of cultural heritage objects, looking closely at material properties in relation to the environment. In addition to testing new and existing conservation materials, Megan encourages others to continue experimentation and sharing in both areas—corrosion mitigation and plastics adhesion—with an eye towards sustainability and preservation. This research is supported by Bader Philanthropies.

Art Conservation presents "Corrosion and Adhesion: Evaluating Material Properties Over Time"
 

Art History alumna MaryClaire Pappas awarded Aurora Borealis Prize in History

The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS) awarded Art History alumna MaryClaire Pappas (M.A. '15) with the Aurora Borealis Prize in History for her paper, "Dangerous Affectations: Orientalism and Jean Heiberg's Nudes". Pappas is also one of three organizers of the upcoming conference, Nordic Nature: Art, Ecology, Landscape in Norway.

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Ph.D. candidate publishes new paper in Sculpture Journal

Ph.D. student Benjamin McHutchion has published an article for Sculpture Journal, "Colonial Statues as Memorial Contact Zones: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canada.” 

The article examines states of John. A. Macdonald and Edward Cornwallis, both of which were removed from public spaces in 2018. The paper is based on McHutchion's M.A. thesis work under the guidance of Prof. Hoeniger, which is largely centred on collective memory.

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