Faculty Members Selected to Attend Third CIC Art History Seminar

Twenty full-time faculty members from CIC institutions have been selected to participate in the art history seminar on “Making and Meaning in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Europe.” This event, the third in CIC’s series of seminars on Teaching Pre-Modern European Art in Context, will take place June 17–22 at Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio.

 

Participants will consider how European artworks from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods in modern museums—now removed from their original contexts and displayed as aesthetic objects—were once integral to sacred and secular life. The seminar will explore how curators present these works in museums today, addressing framing, acquisition and collecting, and the conservation of works of art. Specialists will address these broad topics through the examination of relevant works in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, including works from its Samuel H. Kress Collection. In addition to examining artworks in the museum’s galleries and print study room and Oberlin library’s special collections, participants will meet with conservators from the Intermuseum Conservation Association laboratory and curators at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

 

The seminar series, made possible through the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, aims to strengthen the teaching of art history—a discipline that is fundamental to a liberal arts curriculum—to undergraduates at smaller colleges and universities. The first seminar, which took place at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, in July 2010, concentrated on artistic workshop practices of late medieval and Renaissance Italy. The second seminar, which was held at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, in June 2011, focused on “Living with Art in Renaissance and Baroque Europe.”

 

The seminars are particularly valuable for those CIC colleges that have no art historians or that offer art history courses taught by faculty members trained in other disciplines such as English or studio art.

 

For more information about the seminar series, see www.cic.edu/ArtHistory.

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​Meryl Bailey Assistant Professor of Art Mills College (CA) Mary Brantl Assistant Professor of Art History St. Edward’s University (TX) Esperanca Camara Associate Professor of Art History University of Saint Francis (IN) Andrea Campbell Associate Professor of Art Randolph College (VA) Laura Crary Associate Professor of Art Presbyterian College (SC) Theresa Flanigan Assistant Professor of Art History The College of Saint Rose (NY) Gregory Gilbert Associate Professor of Art History Knox College (IL) David Herwaldt Assistant Professor of Art Wartburg College (IA) Sara James Professor of Art History Mary Baldwin College (VA) Amy Johnson Associate Professor of Art Otterbein University (OH)

​Tiffany Johnson Bidler Assistant Professor of Art Saint Mary’s College (IN) Jan Kennedy Assistant Professor of Art History Kansas City Art Institute (MO) Wendy Koenig Associate Professor of Art North Central College (IL) Robert Legueux Assistant Professor of English Columbia College Chicago (IL) Barbara McNulty Director of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery Lebanon Valley College (PA) Donna Sadler Professor of Art Agnes Scott College (GA) Lisa Schoenfielder Professor of Art Viterbo University (WI) Christine Sellin Assistant Professor of Art California Lutheran University Matthew Shoaf Associate Professor of Art and Art History Ursinus College (PA) Rebecca Twist-Schweitzer Assistant Professor of Art Pacific University (OR)