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From the Doctoral Students
Mariana von Hartenthal has been accepted to participate in the Photographic Process Identification Workshop at the Image Permanence Institute, in Rochester, NY. This is a five-day workshop, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, that will take place in June. She has also been selected to attend the Comité International de l’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) Conference in Rio de Janeiro this August, along with nineteen other Ph.D. candidates. The event is supported by the Getty Foundation and the Terra Foundation. She continues to carry out archival research for her dissertation, at the J. Marriott Library at the University of Utah, the Hay Library at Brown University, and the Brazilian National Library and Archives in Rio de Janeiro.
Joe Hartman published “A Journey Through Sacred Space in Medieval Rome: Tree and Cross Symbolism in the Apse Mosaic and Floor of San Clemente” in Middle Grounds Journal (September 2014). He also contributed the mixed-media art piece “Cabinet of Curiosity” for display in the Spare Parts gallery of San Antonio’s MINI ART MUSEUM, curated by fellow doctoral student Claudia Zapata. He delivered papers at the Texas Medieval Association and “Rhetorics and Aesthetic of Memory,” the inaugural RASC/a graduate conference at SMU.
Alice Heeren co-organized “The Rhetorics and Aesthetics of Memory,” SMU’s inaugural Graduate Art History Symposium.
Lauren Richman presented “Arbiters of Everyday Life: Ursula Arnold and Evelyn Richter’s Photographic Tactics in the German Democratic Republic” at the 3rd International Conference on Photography and Theory, held this year in Nicosia, Cyprus. She also co-organized two conferences: “Institutional Graffiti: Subversion and Complicity in Public Writing” and “The Rhetorics and Aesthetics of Memory,” SMU’s inaugural Graduate Art History Symposium.
Asiel Sepulveda completed his M.A. degree at SMU and begins doctoral study there this year with the support of a University Fellowship. In spring, he won the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize for Best Paper at the 12th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art for “Visualizing the Urban Environment: The Mulata and Tobacco Lithography in Mid-Nineteenth Century Havana.”
Claudia Zapata spoke on “Curators Getaway: Collecting Latin American Art” at the Houston Fine Art Fair in September 2014. She also received the Dean’s Departmental Award for her presentation on Walter Horne’s “Triple Execution Postcards” at SMU’s Research Day this spring. She has two exhibitions forthcoming: “CH 10, una retrospectiva de proyecto Changarrito” at Museo de la Ciudad de México in Mexico City, and “Cabinet of Curiosities” at the MINI ART MUSEUM, San Antonio, TX. Ms. Zapata has also been recognized by the Mexic-Arte Museum as an “Outstanding Supporter/Partner.” She continues to edit and write for ChingoZine, a Latino art zine.
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From the Undergraduates
Natalie Boerder is a doctoral student in art history at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland.
Elisabeth Cremeens is pursuing an M.A. in Art History at Tufts University.
Lexy Damianos has a position at Christie’s, New York in Fine and Estate Jewelry.
Kandi Doming has earned a Fulbright grant to study Mediterranean archaeology at VU University in the Netherlands.
Lee Lynch is pursuing her M. Arch. at the University of Southern California.
Alli Perry will be at Christies, Dallas.
Sarah Montonchaikul has been hired as part of the 2015 MuSe Paid Internship Program and the Ittleson Foundation College Internship in Objects Conservation, both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rae Pleasant is currently a research associate at the Dallas Museum of Art and was previously at the Philbrook Museum of Art as a curatorial assistant. This summer she will serve as a Diversity in the Arts representative at the Walters Art Museum.
Ali Portaro is pursuing her J.D. at the University of North Carolina School of Law.
Tyler Rutledge is an Assistant Buyer at Nieman Marcus.
Taeler Sanchez is working in the registrarial department at the Meadows Museum.
Meredith Tavallaee is pursuing her J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Rebecca Quinn Teresi will be returning to Dallas this fall as the Meadows/Kress/Prado Curatorial Fellow at the Meadows Museum. She spent six weeks this summer in Madrid and Seville, supported by a Charles Singleton Center Fellowship for research on her dissertation, “Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain,” for the Johns Hopkins University.
