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Spring 2008 Julia Triolo ('78 B.A., '96 Ph.D) received the College of Arts & Architecture Alumni Award in Art History. She is a graduate of both Penn State's undergraduate and doctoral programs in Art History, receiving her Ph.D. in 1996 with a dissertation entitled The Armorial Maiolica of Francesco Xanto Avelli. Julia's dissertation on Francesco Xanto Avelli-an exceptionally productive and innovative Renaissance pottery painter, an artisan who also wished to be remembered as an artist and a poet-was recognized as an important contribution to the study of Italian Renaissance decorative arts, and established her firmly among serious scholars working in that field. In succeeding years, she has actively continued her investigation of Renaissance Maiolica while working full-time as the Affiliate Editor of the Getty Research Institute's Bibliography of the History of Art (the premier bibliographical resource in the field), where she is responsible for abstracting and indexing current Italian Art Historical literature for their international database. Over the past fifteen years, Julia has clearly established herself as an indispensable resource for scholars in Italian art history. Living in Rome and working at the Biblioteca Hertziana, she is situated at an international nexus for historians of Italian art. And there, over the years, numerous scholars have come to depend on her as advisor, editor and confidante, by virtue of her warmth, her modesty and her erudition. Fall 2007 Michael Tomor ('83 B.A., '90 M.A, '93 Ph.D.) is currently the director of the El Paso Museum of Art: The mission of the institution is to provide education programs based on the strengths of its permanent collection of European, Mexican and American Collections to the surrounding tri-state region, which includes, Texas, New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico. In his brief tenure, he has brought from the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20th Century , including the works of Sequiros, Orozco, Rivera, Kahlo, and Tamayo among twenty others and the Creative World of Peter Max: A Retrospective (curated in house). Upcoming features including Marsden Hartley: American Modern, and Wrapped in Tradition: The Chihuly Collection of Native American Trade Blankets (Glass and Textiles). He is also currently working on an Impressionist exhibition in collaboration with the Museo Soumaya, including the works of Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Rodin and Degas, among others. In his position he works frequently with the Mexican Consulate and the American Consulate in Juarez as well as CONACULTA (like the NEA), the US Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza and the Embassy in Mexico City as well as officials of the Mexican Foreign Service affiliate with the INBA (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes), INAH, and Municipio. With their assistance he developed the first binational simultaneous collaborative exhibition, Frontiers of Vision: Panoramas by Eric Jervaise - shown at the EPMA and Museo de Arte INBA in Juarez in the fall of 2006. Spring 2007 The Very Reverend Archimandrite Joachim Cotsonis ('86 M.A., '92 Ph.D.) received the 2007 Alumni Award in Art History. John A. Cotsonis received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. from Penn State in Art History, and is director of the Archbishop Iakovos Library and Learning Resource Center at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is one of two leading scholars in North America on Byzantine lead seals, the topic on which he did his dissertation here. The seals are the richest body of evidence for the iconography of the saints and their cult in Byzantium, and key documents for the study of both orthodox piety and the political use of religious art. Beyond numerous articles on these matters, Father John is the author of a book that is now regarded as the standard work on the subject. He also holds a B.S. from the University of Maryland and his Master of Divinity from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Spring 2007 Valerie Grash ('98 Ph.D.) has been awarded the 2007 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, where she is a tenured associate professor of fine arts. In addition to receiving a cash stipend and additional funds for professional development endeavors, Valerie will be the keynote speaker at the fall 2007 Freshman Convocation ceremony. Currently, she is on sabbatical, completing her first book, tentatively titled, Forging the Steel City: A History of Commercial Skyscrapers and Pittsburgh Industrialists, 1880-1990. Fall 2006 William Hauptman ('75 Ph.D.) co-curated the exhibition "Charles Gleyre: Le génie de l'inspiration" at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, on view from October 7, 2006-January 7, 2007. Dr. Hauptman is an independent scholar in Lausanne, Switzerland and the author of the catalogue raisonné on the work of Charles Gleyre (1996). Fall 2006 Rosa J. H. Berland ('95 B.A) is currently an assistant curator in the department of painting & sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Rosa holds her M.A. in Art History from the University of Toronto with a specialization in modern and contemporary art and has worked as a curator and visual arts program manager for the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, New York City (2000-2001) and in the curatorial department at the Frick Collection (2001-2002) and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2003-2006). In addition to her work at MoMA, Rosa is also currently working on an independent research project on the early graphic work of Oskar Kokoschka. Fall 2006 Charles Fox ('88 B.A.) is historic site administrator at the Somerset Historical Center. As museum director for the center, he recently assembled an exhibit examining the service of Somerset County's National Guard Unit, Company C, 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, during World War I. Company C played a pivotal role in the Second Battle of Marne, fought along the Marne River in France in July 1918. In conjunction with the exhibit, the Somerset Historical Center published a catalogue and a book containing a series of articles Fox wrote on Company C. Fall 2006 Heidi Hornik ('87 M.A., '90 Ph.D.) professor of art history at Baylor University, has had her third book published. Illuminating Luke: The Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting was published by T&T International, New York and London, in 2005. Fall 2006 Efram Burk ('98 Ph.D.) assumed the position of Associate Professor of Art History at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. He had been teaching at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort since fall of 1998. His specialty is in American and European prints and drawings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His dissertation was on the graphic work of William and Marguerite Thompson Zorach, an American couple active in the first half of the twentieth century but regarded for their artistic work in other media. Dr. Burk has published articles on the Zorachs' printmaking activity in the Print Quarterly and the Woman's Art Journal. He is currently writing a book on the art and travel-related articles by Marguerite Thompson Zorach that were published in her hometown newspaper, the Fresno Morning Republican, from 1908-1915, roughly corresponding to her period of study abroad. Dr. Burk is also involved in planning future exhibitions on the prints by the Zorachs. Altogether he has curated nearly a dozen exhibitions, including: "Walt Kuhn Paintings, Drawings, Prints A Study of Related Works" (at, among other sites, the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 1989-1990); "The History and Techniques of Printmaking" (at, among other sites, the McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina at Columbia, 2002); "Broadening Horizons, Changing Viewpoints, Landscapes from the Burk Collection," (at the Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine in Gorham, 2004). Summer 2006 Keli Rylance ('96 Ph.D.) recently completed an M.L.S. (Master's of Library Science) degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ('05), and is now working as a Special Collections Librarian at the University of South Florida Tampa Libraries. She has a forthcoming article, "Archives and the Intangible," appearing in the Canadian archives journal Archivaria this winter, and will be presenting a paper titled "Ex Fumo Dare Lucem: The Performance of the Printing Press in the Habsburg World" at the Renaissance Society of American Conference in Miami next May. Summer 2006 Sara Detweiler Loughman ('93 B.A.) resides in Phoenix, Ariz., with her husband, Dr. Thomas J. Loughman, and their new daughter, born on October 6, 2005. Loughman is the program manager of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory (PURL) of the College of Design at Arizona State University. She was formerly the registrar for special exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she worked for eight years. Her husband (former visiting assistant professor in Penn State's Department of Art History) is the curator of European art at the Phoenix Art Museum. http://www.artsandarchitecture.psu.edu/news/newsletter/sp06/Sp06_p09.html#notes Spring 2006 Mary E. Dohne ('97 B.A.) Director of the Charles Cowles Gallery in New
York, received the 2006 College of Arts & Architecture Alumni Award in Art History.
After completing her B.A. with a double major in art history and French at Penn State
and the Shreyer Honors College in 1997, Mary E. Dohne moved to New York City. She
earned an M.A. from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the History of Decorative
Arts, Design and Culture, with a Master's thesis on "Masculinity at Home: Bachelor
Pads and the Seduction of the American Dad." She began her career in art galleries at
the Babcock Galleries on 5th Avenue, working for one of our distinguished alumni, John
Driscoll. Since 2001, she has been at the Charles Cowles Gallery on West 24th Street
and quickly became its Director. This contemporary art gallery was started by the founding
editor of the Artforum, Charles Cowles. As Gallery Director, Ms. Dohne "collaborates with
museums on exhibitions and public appearances for gallery artists, " as well as "advise private
collectors and public institutions on acquisition of artworks." She has also guest curated an
exhibition of American Mingei potters at the O'Keefe Museums in Biloxi, Mississppi, and an
exhibition on "39 Unforgettable Women" for the Women's Museum in Dallas. This year's Alumni
Award honors the remarkable and young career of Mary Dohne, who in less than a decade after
her graduation from Penn State is accomplishing great things as the director of a major contemporary
art gallery in New York City. Spring 2006 Thomas J. Morton (BA '95 - with honors.) earned his Ph.D in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania (2003). In his dissertation he reconstructed the forum of the Roman city of Meninx on the Tunisian island of Jerba. His dissertation research was supported by a William Fulbright Fellowship to Tunisia and the Woodruff Traveling Fellowing from the Archaeological Institute of America. During his graduate studies he participated in two archaeological field projects, one on the island of Jerba and the other in Carthage. In addition, he was affiliated with the Division of Education at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For two years he taught at Swarthmore College before accepting in 2005 a tenure-track position to teach architectural history in the School of Architecture at Arizona State University. Spring 2006 Katherine M. Bentz ('03 Ph.D.) is completing her two years (2004-06) as a Mellow Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University (New York, N.Y.). She will begin this fall a tenure-track position in the Department of Fine Arts at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she will teach Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. Summer 2005 Maggie Monrad (’04 M.A., Art History) is a reasearch assistant at the American Institutes for Research, a "think tank" in Washington, D.C. She is working in the Education and Human Development division. May 4, 2005 Heidi J. Hornik ('87 M.A., '90 Ph.D.) received the 2005 College of Arts & Architecture Alumni Award in Art History. After completing her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Penn State, Heidi J. Hornik began teaching at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in 1990. She is now a full professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art history at Baylor and was the Director of Baylor's Martin Museum of Art for fourteen years. During fall 2004, she was a Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund's College at Cambridge University in England. She has co-authored four books with her husband, Mikeal C. Parsons: Illuminating Luke: The Infancy Narrative of Christ in Italian Renaissance Painting (2003), Interpreting Christian Art (2004), Illuminating Luke: The Public Ministry of Christ in Italian Renaissance Painting (2005). Professors Hornik and Parsons are currently researching a third book in their Illuminating Luke series, this one focuses on The Passion and Resurrection Narratives in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting. Dr. Hornik is also completing a Catalogue Raisonné on the 16th-century Italian painter Michele Tosini. Her interest in this artist (the subject of her dissertation) was initially sparked by the Palmer Museum's acquisition of Tosini's painting, Madonna and Child with St. John. Katherine Bentz (’03 Ph.D. Art History) hadn’t planned on earning a Ph.D. Always interested in art history, she thought she’d get her master’s degree and find a job in a museum. But then, while attending graduate school at George Washington University, she fell in love - with the research topic that ultimately became her dissertation. Read more in the Arts and Architecture Spring 2005 Newsletter Fall 2004 How does it feel to be responsible for bringing more than 165,000 people into a museum during a three-month period? Frances Terpak (’70 B.A., ’72 M.A. Art History) knows. She co-curated the Getty Research Institute's Devices of Wonder exhibition, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from November 2001 until February 2002, which was so popular that Terpak herself could barely get past the line of people outside who were anxious for a final peek on the exhibition's last day. Read more in the Arts and Architecture Fall 2004 Newsletter Summer 2004 Michael Tomor (’93 Ph.D., ’90 M.A., ’83 B.A. Art History) got more than an education at Penn State-he got an experience. While a graduate assistant at the Palmer Museum of Art (then the Museum of Art), Tomor worked alongside administrators, curators, registrars and other staff, giving him an inside look at the museum’s operations. "There’s a big difference between a job and an ‘experience,’ and I definitely had an ‘experience’ at the museum," he explains. See Arts and Architecture Alumni News |
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