Happy New Year and Welcome to 2018!

Each year we have many accomplished graduates from the Art History undergraduate and Art Conservation graduate programs, but for our first post in 2018, we're sending our congratulations to Art History Graduate students who have recently completed their Master's or PhDs. 

All the best for 2018! 

Trish Smithen, Assistant Professor in Paintings Conservation in our Art Conservation program will be featured on CFRC, Queen's radio station. The show is called Blind Date with Knowledge and airs bi-weekly starting this week. More information on the show schedule and other fascinating guests can be found here: www.cfrc.ca/bdwk

The graduate student conference, Context and Meaning, takes place this weekend, February 2nd and 3rd. This conference focuses on Visual and Material culture and is run by students in the Art History graduate program. You can find more information on the Graduate Visual Cultures Association website and their Facebook page.

Isabel Luce discussed her research at this weekend's Context and Meaning graduate student conference. Follow this link to listen: Grad Chat

Topics: Picturing Domesticity: An Investigation of household objects in the Victorian home

Dr. Cronin received her PhD in Art History at Queen's in 2000, working with Dr. Lynda Jessup. In April 2018, her newest book will be available. Entitled,  Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870-1914, the book is published by Pennsylvania University Press. 

Congratulations to Dr. Cronin! You can learn more about her important research on her Brock University web page.

The Art Conservation Program has received over $600,000 over five years from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The money will be used on increased programming focusing on indigenous material Culture. Read the article in the Queen's Gazette for more information!

Congratulations to Eden Gelgoot and Danielle Ruderman! Ruderman has been accepted as the Inaugural Guest Curator at the Rubinoff Sculpture Park in British Columbia and Gelgoot's final term paper for the course Conservation Principles: Cultural Heritage Preservation (ARTH 404) has been selected as Global Winner in the Art History & Theory category of the Undergraduate Awards.

Lisa Binkley has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University to begin 1 July 2018. Over the tenure of the award, Lisa will be involved in the Centre's outreach, scholarship, and co-curricular programs and she will teach one course per term.

On Tuesday, June 5th, Art History doctoral, masters, and undergraduate students celebrated their convocation. Congratulations for all of your achievements and best of luck on your future endeavours!

Some wonderful shots from the day of doctoral and master's graduates, including, but not limited to,  Emily Marshall, Meaghan Whitehead, Heather Merla, Chantal Manna, Marla Dobson, and Farrukh Rafiq!  Some of our faculty including Joan Schwartz, Johanna Amos, Una D'Elia, Allison Morehead, Gauvin Bailey, and Matthew Reeve are shown in the final image.

Professor Ron Spronk has coordinated the interactive website, Inside Bruegel, which allows users to view infrared, x-radiography and macro images of Bruegel's works. Users can also see how the images were made and gain insight into the field of technical art history.  Take a moment and check out this exciting and interactive website!