Faculty News: Leslie Geddes promoted to assistant professor

After two years as a visiting member of the faculty, Leslie Geddes has been promoted to assistant professor. 

Leslie Geddes specializes in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. She received her Ph.D. in the history of art from Princeton University in 2014. Prof. Geddes was awarded the 2016 Jane Faggen Ph.D. Dissertation Prize in Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. Her research has been supported by a grant from the Kluge Foundation, a Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship, and a Readership in Renaissance Studies at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti in Florence. 
 
She looks forward to continuing to teach a range of courses on Italian Renaissance art—from classes featuring major figures such as Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo to seminars on topics such as villa architecture, courtly competition, and the role of printmaking in artistic and scientific invention. She's delighted to work closely with students interested in the early modern period.

Faculty News: AnnieLaurie Erickson

Assistant Professor AnnieLaurie Erickson's solo exhibition, Data Shadows, is on view at the Edward M. Dowd Art & Art History Building Gallery, Santa Clara University through September 21st.   

A feature article about Data Shadows was published in Foam Magazine, a leading international photography magazine published in Amsterdam at the Foam Photography Museum.

Alumni News: Jan Gilbert at NOMA

 JAN GILBERT TO DISCUSS HER CAREER AND INFLUENCE OF MENTOR JIM STEG AT ARTIST PERSPECTIVE LECTURE

Friday Nights at NOMA, August 11, 6 p.m.

Artist Jan Gilbert (MFA 1982), among many former students of longtime Tulane professor and innovative printmaker Jim Steg, will be featured in an Artist Perspective lecture. Deeply influenced by her native New Orleans, Gilbert employs tools and processes of collaboration to create a host of widely varied projects with wildly diverse partnerships, including her documentary filmmaker husband, Kevin McCaffrey; poet/writers Andrei Codrescu and Yusef Komunyakaa; experimental theater directors Richard Schechner, Julie Hebert, and Kathy Randels; and Swiss cultural psychiatrist/anthropologist Jacques Arpin. 

[via NOMA News]

Faculty News: Aaron Collier

Two Blocks from Elysian Fields exhibition at the Clemente in New York City.

Following a successful third year review, Assistant Professor Aaron Collier will be spending three weeks in September at an artist residency in Amsterdam.

During the residency, Aaron will delve into the engravings and etchings of Goltzius and Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum in order to generate line-based works on paper in the studio.

Following Amsterdam, Aaron will lead a day-long drawing workshop in Rome with the Tulane School of Architecture Rome Study Abroad Program.