Dear majors, minors, and friends of the ART/ARTH department:

Greetings, and welcome back to campus. As in the past, we wanted to touch base with you here at the beginning of the semester to make some introductions and to outline some events for academic 09-10.

We hope that all of you will drop by to welcome Dr. Douglas Brine and Dr. Kathryn O’Rourke to the department. Dr. Brine and Dr. O’Rourke will be starting tenure-track appointments in the ARTH program. As many of
you may remember, Dr. Brine is an authority on Medieval Art. He will be teaching a variety of courses including ARTH 1307, Art History I: Prehistoric through Medieval Art, ARTH 3332, Medieval Art and ARTH 3391, Topics in Art History: Jan Van Eyck and Early Netherlandish Art. His office is DS 232. Dr. O’Rourke will be starting a tenure-track appointment in the ARTH program. Dr. O’Rourke specializes in Mexican Art and Architecture.
She will be teaching courses in ARTH II: Renaissance to Modern Art, ARTH 3321-1, Topics in Art History: Public Art Across the Border, ARTH 3391, Topics in Art History: Art & Architecture of Latin American Since the 16th Century. Her office is DS 330.

Visiting Art History Professor, Dr. Nayla Muntasser, is rejoining us and will be teaching ARTH 1307, Art History I: Prehistoric Through Medieval Art, ARTH 3321, Greek Vase Painting, and ARTH 3391, Topics in Art History: The Art of the Banquet in the Ancient World.

Dr. Mark Garrison will not be teaching for the next academic year, as he is the recipient of an NEH grant.

Faculty from other departments teaching in the ARTH program this year includes Dr. Patrick Keating (Introduction to Film Studies)).

In Studio Art, Professor Kate Ritson will be teaching ART 2305, two sections of Studio Art for Chemists and ART 2370, Beginning Sculpture: Introduction to Clay. Assistant Professor Liz Ward will be teaching ART 2340, Beginning Painting, ART 3340, and 4340 Intermediate and Advanced Painting and ART 4394, Senior Seminar. Assistant Professor Jon Lee will be teaching ART 2330, Beginning Drawing, ART 2364, Screen Printing and ART 3362, Digital and Photo Printmaking. Associate Professor Jessica Halonen will be teaching ART 1310, Design, ART 2330, Beginning Drawing and ART 3330/4330 Intermediate and Advanced Drawing. Please welcome Ms. Sarah Sudhoff who will be joining us this semester to teach one of our beginning photography courses, ART 2350. Ms. Ms. Janette Morales will be returning to teach the introductory courses in digital photography and digital art, ART 2380 and 2352. As in the past, we are very happy to have Ms. Léo Lee, Mr. Randall Wallace and Ms. Holly Goeckler teaching. Ms. Lee will be teaching ART 1310, Design; Mr. Wallace will be teaching ART 2374, Beginning Sculpture: Intro to Wood; and Ms. Goeckler will be teaching ART 2372, Beginning Metal Sculpture this academic year. Lastly, Associate Professor and Acting Chair for the fall semester, Trish Simonite will be teaching ART 2350, Beginning Photography and ART 3342/4352, Intermediate and Advanced Digital Photography.


We have three Stieren Arts Enrichment Series events in the department scheduled for the Stieren Arts
Enrichment Series in academic 09/10. On October 8, 2009, Lane Relyea, Associate Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University will be giving a lecture From Spectacle to Database: On Bricolage in Contemporary Art. His writing has appeared in Art Journal, Art in America, Artforum, Afterall, Frieze and Parkett. Katy Siegal, Associate Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, will be giving a Stieren Arts Enrichment lecture on March 11, 2010, titled: First Man/Last Man: Apocalypse in Contemporary American Art. Ms. Siegel is Editor in Chief of the Art Journal, and a contributing editor to Artforum. Figurative artist Jim Torok will be on campus in March 2010 and will be giving a Lecture and a performance piece on Thursday, March 4th at 7:00 p.m. in Northrup Hall 040. Following the Lecture and performance there will be a reception with the artist at The Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery in the Dicke Art Building where his work will be on view March 4th through April 10th, 2010. Professor Jon Lee will present a show of his recent work in The Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery titled: Unity and Continuity. The exhibition will open September 30 through November 28, 2009. As usual, the year
will end with show of work by the senior studio majors.

Finally, we plan to have a reception for majors, minors and students interested in the department on September 8, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. in the Painting Studio, DSB 306.

Please stop by the departmental office to say hello. As always, if you have any questions or need some information, do not hesitate to contact either Ann Mueller (x7682) or me (7681). We look forward to
seeing you soon.

Best wishes,

Trish Simonite, Acting Chair, on behalf of the Department of Art and Art History