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!
Congratulations to Professor Allison Morehead! Her book, Nature's Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form is a finalist for the First Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association!
Art History's own Ron Spronk has been recently featured in the New York Times, discussing his project, Inside Bruegel.
Read the full article here: Peeling Back the Paint to Discover Bruegel’s Secrets
Professor Gauvin Bailey's class, Caravaggio & Artemisia, ARTH 451, recently took advantage of our connection with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre to learn about works related to their course. Using the David McTavish Art Study room, with a guest lecture by Dr. Jacquelyn Coutré, Bader Curator/Researcher of European Art at the Agnes, the students viewed work by Elisabetta Sirani, Adam Elsheimer, and Guido Reni. Sirani's work is the first work by a historical European woman artist to enter the Agnes' collection and Reni was her father's teacher.
Last month, Art History faculty and graduate students accompanied Steph Roy of Northern Survey Supply to St. Mary's Cathedral here in Kingston. Mr. Roy demonstrated the use of Leica scanners to map the interior of the cathedral. This technology is typically used in mining and industrial applications.
Last week, the Art Conservation program hosted Chris Stavroudis as the 2019 Margaret A. Light Visiting Scholar in Art Conservation. Mr. Stavroudis demonstrated a variety of techniques using his Modular Cleaning Program. The Modular Cleaning Program (MCP) is a systematic approach he developed to assist with cleaning artworks. The MCP consists of a series of concentrated stock solutions and a computer database which may be adapted for the creation of liquid, emulsified and gelled cleaning agents.
