Four Graduate art History Students to Present at Research Symposium on May 19

The Art History Department will host its Master of Arts in Art History Spring Graduate Student Forum at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 19, in the O’Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the presentations.

Qualifying paper presenters:

  • Barbara Aiken-Ali
    “Russia’s Grizzly Coast and Polar Bear Odyssey: The Charisma of Conservation in Zoo Design”
    Dr. Victoria Young, faculty adviser
  • Theresa Downing
    “Stephanie Liner’s ‘Corporeal Architecture’ and Womanhouse: Deploying the Essentialist Gendered Space of the Domestic Interior”
    Dr. Craig Eliason, faculty adviser
  • Joshua Feist
    “Democratic Mosaics and Museums: Two Renaissances Realized in the Façade of the American Visionary Art Museum”
    Dr. Victoria Young, faculty adviser
  • Amy Marie Nygaard
    “Hale Woodruff’s Talladega College Murals”
    Dr. Heather Shirey, faculty adviser

For more information call (651) 962-5855.