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Also, Professor Green was interviewed on the Baltimore National Public Radio show “Maryland Morning” as well as a television interview on CN8 news station’s “Our Morning On CN8” in the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas.
Noël Schiller, Assistant Professor of Northern Renaissance and Baroque art history, has been awarded a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled, "Engaging Laughter: Representing Perception, Sensation, and the Passions in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art."
During the academic year 2008-2009, Dr. Schiller will be completing research for several articles as well as working on her book project at a variety on institutions including the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, Maryland) and the Koninklijk Bibliotheek, The Hague (Netherlands).
In December 2007, Professor Schiller’s essay “‘To see ourselves greatly misled’: the Laughing Deceptions of Jan Miense Molenaer’s Five Senses (1637)” was published in the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, Special Rembrandt issue, vol. 28 (2007): 76-103.
Her review of Jeanne van Waadenoijen’s De “Geheimtaal” van Jheronimus Bosch: een interpretatie van zijn werk will appear in the Summer 2008 volume of Renaissance Quarterly.
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing Elisabeth Condon has been awarded a $5,000 2008 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, the state’s most prestigious studio art award.
Elisabeth Fraser, Associate Professor of Art History, has published an essay, “Books, Prints, and Travel: Reading in the Gaps of the Orientalist Archive,” in Art History (31:3, June 2008, pp. 342-367). Art History is a major, peer-reviewed journal based in London, with an international readership.
Fraser has also been invited to contribute an article to a special issue of the journal Ars Orientalis, published by Oxford University. The issue will focus on “Globalising cultures: art and mobility in the eighteenth century.”
Dark Poets, an exhibition curated by Professor Emeritus Mernet Larsen and including USF MFA Alumni Roger Palmer, Claudia Ryan, and Charlotte Schulz, recently opened at Maryland Institute College of Art's Decker Gallery in Baltimore.
Yoko Nogami, Alumna and Adjunct Instructor, School of Art and Art History, received the Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Grant for 2008. The funding will supplement her residency at Vermont Studio Center this summer along with a grant from Florida Cultural Affairs Artist Enhancement Grant for 2007.
Assistant Professor of Art Julie Weitz’s gouache paintings are currently on view in the group exhibition “Au Courant” at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery (http://www.damstuhltrager.com
Dr. Cesar Cornejo, first year Assistant Professor in Art, is being featured at the Busan Biennial 2008, Korea, from September 6 - November 16. His work is being shown in the section “Sculpture Project,” which includes artists such as Robert Morris and Dennis Oppenheim.
