Art History Association Meeting Minutes

April 9, 2003 at 10:30 am | Hearth Café

Announcements

• Liz Parr was excepted to the University of Oregon PhD program
• Helen Burham was excepted to the City University of New York PhD program
• Kara Burns??? Was excepted to the University of Washington Ph.D. program
• Nissie Ellison presented a paper on the documentation of the Women’s Building at the Chicago fair of 1893 at Princeton University’s graduate Symposium

Graduate Symposium

• Liz Parr suggested a graduate symposium for 2003-4.  The membership approved and Liz Parr was voted committee chair.

Art Collecting Project (Violet Clark, Committee Chair)

• She will contact with the visual arts department and local galleries to determine if there is enough artist interest to hold a competition.  She is also researching possible space for holding a competition and displaying acquisitions

First Friday Art Walk

• Meet at 5pm at Café Paradiso on Friday, May 2.  The White Lotus exhibit is expected to be great.

PAM trip

• Portland Art Museum is having a Colonial American Art and Decorative Arts exhibit.  They have also added to their silver collection.  A trip is planned for Sunday, May 4.  Contact Gayle (gkochans@darkwing.uoregon.edu) for details.

 Graduate Student Faculty Liaison (Clare Redhead and Gayle Goudy Kochanski)

• New Contemporary Architecture Faculty Position: The faculty search committee has invited Noah Chasin, Deborah Hurtt, and Alona for interviews.  They will have class emonstrations and research presentations and the faculty has invited all students to attend and voice opinions.

Meeting was adjourned at 11:15 am.