January 2023: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Lecturer Alberto Aguilar’s National Museum of Mexican Art exhibition, Yo Soy Museo, was named as one of the best art exhibitions of 2022 by the Chicago Tribune.

Assistant Professor Sampada Aranke’s upcoming publication of Death's Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power will be released by Duke University Press in February 2023. Her new book analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of three Black Panther Party members to examine the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. 

Dean of the Library and Special Collections Melanie Emerson has joined the executive board of the Art Libraries Society of North America. She will begin serving as vice president/president elect, followed by president and president-elect. Her term will begin at the 51st annual conference in April 2023.

Professor, Adj. William Harper won Best Concept at the NO AR Drone Film Festival Brazil for his film Merganser Migrations. 

Assistant Professor Anna Martine Whitehead is both a New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Project grant recipient and a National Performance Network Creation Fund Award recipient in support of FORCE! an opera in three acts. The project follows a group of Black women and femmes as they wait to enter a prison and escape a memory-erasing mold, and has lead funding from the Mellon Foundation and additional funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Whitehead was also named a 2022–2024 Vera List Center Fellow. 

Professor Mechtild Widrich’s new book, Monumental Cares: Sites of History and Contemporary Art, will be released on January 31. Monumental Cares links the monument debate of the last decade to the history of realism, showing how art can address monumental problems like the climate crisis, migration, and authoritarian politics. The book will also be presented during the  College Arts Association conference in New York in February.

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