Volume 3, No. 4 November 22, 2002
Art history plans symposium, lectures By Andrew Nedd The Savannah College of Art and Design art history department has a number of events to look forward to in this academic year. Art history will celebrate its students’ accomplishments at the fifth annual Art History Paper Competition at a symposium that will be held Feb. 28. The competition is an annual event that provides students with the chance to present their work in a professional setting and to be recognized for the outstanding work completed in their art history classes. Students of all different majors may submit research papers that they wrote for art history classes within the last year. All topics and lengths are considered with separate categories for graduate and undergraduate submissions. A committee of professors will read the papers and judge them based on their originality, clarity, content and style. Then, winners in each category will read their papers at this year’s symposium, a tremendous opportunity for each presenter to gain experience in public speaking in a congenial atmosphere. Eleanor Goodman, Ph.D., an art history professor and one of the organizers of the paper competition, reported that last year’s selection committee had a "pleasurably difficult time" selecting the winning papers. The four winners, who wrote papers ranging in subject matter from New Deal poster art to postmodern Spanish architecture, presented their work to the largest audience in the four-year history of the competition. Denise Smith, Ph.D., whose student Jeremy Batts read a paper dealing with Native American quillwork, said, "[Participants] benefit from the exposure to a wider audience, but, more importantly, other students benefit from their example." Submissions for this year’s Art History Paper Competition are due Jan. 17. Applications are available at the art history department’s office, Pepe 201A, or from any art history professor. Professor Gabriela Jasin, who is also an organizer of this year’s competition, encourages all students interested in art history to apply. "I feel that the art history symposium is an excellent forum for students to share their interest in art history and to show their peers the value of the discipline," she said. For more information e-mail gjasin@scad.edu. The Art History Club has a number of projects in the works. The club, a student-run organization, is involved with exhibition trips, which are open to members and nonmembers, and provides career advice and advisement assistance to art history students. The next exhibition trip, planned for next quarter, will be to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. The museum is the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by the late Spanish surrealist. In addition to such trips, the club facilitates advisement for major and minor students, including those involved in the museum studies minor. Ben Padolsky, Art History Club president, said his goals for this year are to help students meet graduation requirements, to find out what options are available to them in the professional world, and "to get them actively involved and truly interested in the history of what they spend so much time studying." For information on the museum trip or joining the club, e-mail Padolsky at arthistclub@scad.edu. Celina Jeffery, Ph.D., is the faculty coordinator for the club; e-mail her at cjeffery@scad.edu. Finally, the Art History Lecture Series 2002-2003 is bringing Sarah Symmons, Ph.D., senior lecturer of art history at the University of Essex, to SCAD to deliver a lecture titled "Writing, Scribbling, Drawing, Printing: Goya’s ‘Universal Language’ of Art." The lecture will be held Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. on the third floor of Ex Libris. The next lecture in the series is scheduled for April 29, and features Anthony Alan Shelton, Ph.D., professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Nedd is an art history professor.
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