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Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined opens at Georgetown University Art Galleries
Fransje Gimbrère, Standing Textile(s), 2019. Recycled Polyester braided yarns. Photography by Ronald Smits. September 20, 2019 – Georgetown University is pleased to present Design Transfigured
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Conserving Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, with Dr. Abbie Vandivere
The Department of Art and Art History warmly welcomes Dr. Abbie Vandivere, who directed the recent conservation analysis of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Dr. Vandivere will hold a public lectu
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Prof. Bocci exhibition of photography in Siena, Italy
Roberto Bocci is an associate professor of Digital Art and Photography in the Art and Art History Department. His show "TwiLight Silhouette, Those Who Come and Those Who Leave" has been exhibited in
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Celebrating the Inaugural Year of Our New Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery: A Year in Review
The Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery opened in August 2018 and had a fantastic inaugural year! GU’s new exhibition space welcomed members of Georgetown University family including students, f
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Prof. Bourland publishes Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode
This Spring, Prof. Ian Bourland published Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode with Duke University Press. The book is a history of Black Atlantic and Black British cultural politics told through the len
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Prof. Acres lectures on Jan van Eyck in Ghent
.... In May, 2018, Professor Al Acres presented a paper on Jan van Eyck in Ghent, Belgium, home of the artist's renowned "Ghent Altarpiece." The occasion was a meeting of the Historians of Net
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Professor Hilton Presents Lecture in Moscow
Alison Hilton, Professor of Art History, Emerita, took part in a conference held in conjunction with the exhibition “Impressionism in the Avant-garde” in Moscow (June 7-8, 2018). Curators at the
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GU Art Major Wins Printmaking Award
Art Major Aleta Looker (C'2018) won the Washington Print Club 2018 Annual Student Award on May 19. She was accompanied at the May 19 awards ceremony by Professor Scip Barnhart, her mentor in printmak
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Georgetown Prof. of Art Emeritus Chieffo Dedicates Garden at Southern Connecticut State University
On May 4, 2018, Professor Emeritus Cliff Chieffo cut the ribbon to dedicate a new Reflection Garden at Southern Connecticut State University. The garden honors four educators and graduates of SCSU wh
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Professor Michelle Wang publishes first scholarly monograph on Buddhist maṇḍalas in China
The first scholarly monograph on Buddhist maṇḍalas in China, this book examines mural paintings of the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas. This iconographic template, in which a central Buddha i
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