DR. JOHN MYERS APPOINTED TO THE RANK OF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EMERITUS
At its August 2009 meeting, the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina Wilmington approved Dr. John W. Myers appointment to the rank Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History. Dr. Myers’ colleagues unanimously recommended him for this honor, after his 29 years of service to the department.

Dr. Myers was also honored recently with the establishment of a new scholarship in his name. The John Walker Myers Scholarship in Art History was created to recognize his outstanding work in building the art history program since his appointment in 1980 as the sole art historian on staff. For more information about giving to this scholarship, please contact the University Advancement office at (910) 962-3751.

PAM TOLL JOINS THE STUDIO ART FACULTY
The department welcomes Pam Toll to the full-time faculty in Studio Art. Pam has taught design, painting and drawing as part-time faculty for several years. She is well know in the area as co-founder of the No Boundaries Art Colony and is also co-founder of ACME Art Studio.

DR. NICHOLAS HUDSON JOINS THE ART HISTORY FACULTY
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Nicholas Hudson to the department of Art & Art History. Dr. Hudson holds a MA in Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies and a PhD in Ancient and Medieval Art and Archaeology from the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation, Dining in the Late Roman East, explored the changing social roles of food and dining behavior from the first to seventh centuries AD based on the archaeological data. He has been an active researcher at archaeological excavations in Israel, Cyprus and Turkey, including Aphrodisias in Caria (Turkey) from which he produced a recent publication on the Roman pottery appearing in Aphrodisias Papers 4, a supplement to the Journal of Roman Archaeology. Dr. Hudson was the recipient of the Samuel H. Kress Joint Athens-Jerusalem fellowship for the academic year of 2003-4 during which he conducted his doctoral research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the W.F. Albright Institute in Jerusalem.

PROFESSOR ANN CONNER COLLABORATES WITH FLATBED PRESS
Professor Ann Conner is collaborating with Katherine Brimberry, Flatbed Press, Austin, TX, to edition a new suite of six large format woodcuts entitled Brentwood. Flatbed Press will publish the woodcuts. Recent exhibits are New Prints 2009/Spring Selected by Polly Apfelbaum, IPCNY, International Print Center New York, 2009; Kaleidoscope: Changing Views of the Permanent Collection, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC, 2009; and The Boston Printmakers’ 2009 North American Print Biennial, Boston, MA, 2009. Upcoming exhibits include Solo Exhibition, New Elements Gallery, Wilmington, NC; Art in Academia: SECAC Member’s Exhibition, Mobile, AL; and Advancing Tradition—Flatbed Press USA Exhibition.

ANDI STEELE HAS SOLO EXHIBITION
Andi Steele, assistant professor of Studio Art, had a solo exhibit installed at the Dalton Gallery in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The two room installation composed of multiple lines of monofilament was on view from July 4-August 10, 2008.

DR. AMY KIRSCHKE SPEAKS ON PANEL AT SMITHSONIAN SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE PAINTER AARON DOUGLAS
Dr. Amy Kirschke spoke on a panel celebrating the work and legacy of Aaron Douglas with some of the foremost experts on the artist. Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist presents the first nationally touring retrospective of Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), one of the most influential visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance.The Symposium was on Friday, May 9, 2008

DR.VIBEKE OLSON RECEIVES NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Dr. Vibeke Olson, assistant professor of art history at UNCW, has been selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 17 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities so that faculty can work in collaboration with experts in humanities disciplines.

Professor Olson will participate in an institute entitled “Holy Land and Holy City in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam”. The five-week program will be held at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (UK) and directed by Professors Irven M.Resnick (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and Jeremy Cohen (Tel Aviv University).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. AMY KIRSCHKE RECEIVES BOOK AWARD
Amy Kirschke was awarded the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) 2007 Book of the Year Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication, for Art in Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory.

The Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote the visual arts in higher education. SECAC facilitates cooperation and fosters on-going dialog about pertinent creative, scholarly and educational issues among teachers and administrators in universities, colleges, community colleges, professional art schools, and museums. Although the organization represents the 12 state areas of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, we have members from across the United States and abroad.