DR. NICHOLAS HUDSON JOINS THE ART HISTORY FACULTY
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Nicholas Hudson to the department of Art & Art History. Dr. Hudson holds a MA in Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies and a PhD in Ancient and Medieval Art and Archaeology from the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation, Dining in the Late Roman East, explored the changing social roles of food and dining behavior from the first to seventh centuries AD based on the archaeological data. He has been an active researcher at archaeological excavations in Israel, Cyprus and Turkey, including Aphrodisias in Caria (Turkey) from which he produced a recent publication on the Roman pottery appearing in Aphrodisias Papers 4, a supplement to the Journal of Roman Archaeology. Dr. Hudson was the recipient of the Samuel H. Kress Joint Athens-Jerusalem fellowship for the academic year of 2003-4 during which he conducted his doctoral research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the W.F. Albright Institute in Jerusalem.

PAM TOLL APPOINTED LECTURER IN STUDIO ART FOR 2008-09 ACADEMIC YEAR
The department welcomes Pam Toll as lecturer in Studio Art for the 2008-09 academic year. No stranger to the department, Pam has taught design, painting and drawing as part-time faculty for several years. She is well know in the area as co-founder of the No Boundaries Art Colony and is also co-founder of ACME Art Studio.

PROFESSOR ANN CONNER'S WORK FEATURED IN MULTIPLE VENUES
Professor Ann Conner exhibited woodcuts in Travis Tower Lobby Exhibit, Travis Tower, Houston, TX, April–July, 2008; Art & Social Conscience: Holocaust, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC, May–October, 2008; and Summer Group Exhibit, DFA District Fine Arts, Washington, DC, August, 2008. She has an upcoming Solo Exhibit, New Elements Gallery, Wilmington, NC, scheduled for early 2009. Soon to be released is a suite of six woodcuts Rosewood, from The Grenfell Press, New York, NY; and Flatbed Press, Austin, TX, published four large format woodcuts entitled Parkwood.
She plans to present a paper From Wetlands to Dollywood, at the annual SECAC, Southeastern College Art Conference, in New Orleans, September, 2008.

ANDI STEELE HAS SOLO EXHIBITION
Andi Steele, assistant professor of Studio Art, has a solo exhibit installed at the Dalton Gallery in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The two room installation composed of multiple lines of monofilament will be on view from July 4-August 10, 2008. For more information, visit www.yorkcountyarts.org

DR. AMY KIRSCHKE SPEAKS ON PANEL AT SMITHSONIAN SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE PAINTER AARON DOUGLAS
Dr. Amy Kirschke will speak on a panel celebrating the work and legacy of Aaron Douglas with some of the foremost experts on the artist. Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist presents the first nationally touring retrospective of Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), one of the most influential visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance.The Symposium is on Friday, May 9, 1-5 p.m.

DR.VIBEKE OLSON RECEIVES NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Dr. Vibeke Olson, assistant professor of art history at UNCW, has been selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 17 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities so that faculty can work in collaboration with experts in humanities disciplines.

Professor Olson will participate in an institute entitled “Holy Land and Holy City in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam”. The five-week program will be held at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (UK) and directed by Professors Irven M.Resnick (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and Jeremy Cohen (Tel Aviv University).

UNCW'S ART HISTORY LECTURE SERIES: BILL BROWN
On Tuesday, April 15, Bill Brown spoke on the field of art conservation, which represents an interesting marriage of the art and chemistry disciplines. Mr. Brown is the Director of Conservation at the North Carolina Museum of Art. His visit is co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Art and Art History

GUEST ARTIST VISITS DEPARTMENT
Visiting artist Carl Billingsley worked with students in Andi Steele’s sculpture class during a four-day visit in March. Together they assembled his new steel sculpture and placed it in the front of the Cultural Arts Building performance wing entrance. Students will complete the piece by applying the finish paint coats.

PROFESSOR ANN CONNER'S WORK FEATURED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS EXHIBITION
Professor Ann Conner work was exhbited in a three-woman show presented by Flatbed Press in the Austin City Hall in Austin, Texas, in February, 2008. Her relief prints have also been exhibited recently at the International Print Center of New York.

PART-TIME FACULTY MEMBER PAM TOLL HAS BUSY YEAR
In 2007, Pam Toll participated in two "Paint-a-Future" Symposiums. Florianopolis, Brazil in May with 12 international painters and Rully, France in September with nearly 30 painters. Organizer Hetty Van der Linden brought paint and brushes to impoverished children in Brazil (Madagascar and Moldavia for the France project) and asked the children to paint their dreams for the future. The artists sifted through stacks of beautiful paintings to find inspiration and the faces of the children collaborating in the project. The paintings have been sold in various international exhibitions and 100% of the money was returned to the children in the form of housing, food, medicine, schools, playground equipment. Two paintings that Toll made with Nadir and Jaqueline of Brazil sold, poviding new homes for both girls and their families.

Toll is also participating in Cameron Art Museum exhibition: "Art & Social Conscience: The Holocaust"
which opens in April and will be spearheading the No Boundaries International Art Colony Oct. 31-Nov. 14 at Bald Head Island as well as the exhibition and celebration at Acme Art Studios Nov. 15, 2008.

Toll was a guest artist in the Symposio Internacional de Artistas En Noja, Spain in June 2008.

DR. JOHN MYERS HONORED WITH ART HISTORY SCHOLARSHIP
On December 3, 2005, Dr. John Myers was honored with the establishment of a new scholarship in his name.  The John Walker Myers Scholarship in Art History was created in recognition of his outstanding work in building the Art History program since his appointment in 1980 as the sole art historian on staff. Over the past twenty-five years, Dr. Myers has brought the slide collection into the digital era with his development of the Digital Image Database Lab, he has helped develop a stand-alone major in Art History, and has mentored and nurtured the stellar art history colleagues who have joined the program. When the new scholarship is fully endowed, outstanding student majors in Art History will be awarded with tuition scholarship assistance. If you would like to make a gift to this endowment fund, please refer to our link about giving opportunities under "Alumni and Friends."

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. AMY KIRSCHKE RECEIVES BOOK AWARD
Amy Kirschke was awarded the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) 2007 Book of the Year Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication, for Art in Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory.

The Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote the visual arts in higher education. SECAC facilitates cooperation and fosters on-going dialog about pertinent creative, scholarly and educational issues among teachers and administrators in universities, colleges, community colleges, professional art schools, and museums. Although the organization represents the 12 state areas of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, we have members from across the United States and abroad.