Midwest Art History Society ANNUAL CONFERENCE, CHICAGO, 2016

The Midwest Art History Society will hold its 43rd annual conference in Chicago, from April 7th-9th, 2016, hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College, DePaul University, and Loyola University. Presenters from UIC include Jonathan Mekinda, Ellen Taylor Baird, Alyssa Swindell, Marissa Baker, Aleksander Vujkov, Omur Harmansah, Katja Rivera, and Hannah Higgins.

See schedule below for details.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8^th

10:00-11:30

Architecture

Chair:  Cheryl Bachand, DePaul University  Room 8010

Gáspár Salamon, University of Michigan, "Eliel Saarinen and Géza Maróti in Michigan"

 K.L.H. Wells, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "Warming Up Cold War Modernism: Tapestry and the Decorative Function of Modern Art in Postwar America"

Aleksandar Vujkov, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Exploring the Limits of Classical: Leon Krier’s Villa Laurentum between Tradition, Modernity and Contemporaneity"

Kathryn Joy, University of St. Thomas, "Steilneset Memorial: History Preserved Through Site and Experience"

 3:00-4:30

Ancient Art  Room 8002

Chair:  Omur Hamansah, University of Illinois at Chicago

Anthony F. Mangieri, Salve Regina University, “Fit for an Aristocrat: Exekias and the Luxury of Dress in Greek Vase-Painting”

Margaret L. Woodhull, University of Colorado Denver, “Rethinking the Theater of Marcellus: Heroes, Sons, and Mothers in Rome’s Dynastic Architecture”

Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois University, “Childhood, Race and Status in Roman Art: A Newly Discovered Statuette of an Ethiopian Boy Athlete from Luxembourg”

Lea Cline, Illinois State University, “Art, Illusion, and Control: the Slave and the Roman Villa”

Rachel Foulk, Ferris State University, “A Feast for the Eyes: Still Life Painting and the Culture of Hospitality in Ancient Rome”