Laurie Griesedieck Carmody, Class of ’70, after attending Manhattanville for 2 years , majoring in Art History, she studied in Rome, Italy. This exposure gave her a wonderful interest in primitive and native art. She started an art gallery in 1980, out of her home in Darien, Connecticut, specializing in International Folk Art. Her focus was Haitian Art at first, but has branched out to include many areas of South and Central America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the usa as well. She travels to all of these places to collect and meet artists. Her latest focus is on Cuba. She has been there four times in the last three years, as recently as two weeks ago.
Laurie is also writing a book on international folk art, with an emphasis on Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, Romania, Poland and Russia. These countries have some of her favorite folk art, and they are also fascinating in themselves, for the people, history, architecture, music, etc. The book will be mostly photographs of the artists and the artwork, both in context and out of context, (as in museum and gallery exhibitions.)
Her gallery, Galerie Bonheur, www.galeriebonheur.com, does shows and exhibits all over the USA, as well as many in the St. Louis area. This Spring the gallery is opening a huge exhibit of 90 paintings titled: The Folk Art of Latin America at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, the first of its kind in the Midwest.

C.D. Dickerson is in his second year of dissertation research at the IFA and recently returned from a year of research in Rome. He is also the 2003-2004 Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Joe Fox, MA 2002, works with an independent art appraiser in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also teaches at Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

Brad Fratello, since completing his Ph.D. in December 2001, has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern European Art at Florida State University (Spring 2002) and The Pennsylvania State University (academic year 2002). In March 2003 he received word that his essay “France embraces Jean-Francois Millet: The Intertwined Fates of the Gleaners and the Angelus c. 1890” had been accepted for publication in The Art Bulletin. It is scheduled to appear in the March 2004 issue. He returned to St. Louis this summer to teach for University College and continue to work on an essay concerning Modernist paintings of cows.

Sara Rowe Hignite completed her Master’s degree in Spring 2001 with a thesis entitled “Salomania: the Reception of Salome Imagery in Turn-of-the-Century America.” Sara took on the newly created position of assistant registrar at the Washington University Gallery of Art immediately following graduation, and in early 2002 she was promoted to associate registrar. The Gallery then hired her as Head Registrar in the summer of 2002. Sara is also the assistant editor of Comic Art, the quarterly journal published by Washington University alumnus Todd Hignite.

Todd Hignite completed his master’s degree in spring 2002, writing his thesis on the relationship between museum exhibitions and comic book and newspaper art. Since then, he has begun editing and publishing a new journal entitled Comic Art. The web site may be viewed at www.comicartmagazine.com. Todd was recently interviewed by the Toronto Star for a published profile on the subject of contemporary cartooning.

Rachel Katz, in September 2003, will be a student in the Masters in Museum Studies program at New York University. She will be taking two required classes, History and Theory of Museums, Museum Collections and Exhibitions, and a third course in development and grant writing. In addition, she is actively looking for any opportunity to work or intern in a museum, gallery, or arts-related organization.

Rachel Keith, MA 2002, is working as a research assistant in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. She is also research curator for a private art collection in St. Louis.

Trinita Kennedy, BA 2000, a former art history major at Washington University is finishing her dissertation at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU entitled “The Patronage of the Osservanza: A Study in Religious and Political Crisis in Renaissance Siena.” Trinita is also a 2002-2003 recipient of the Chester Dale Fellowship for Art History research.

Erica Kestenbaum, BA 2002, is currently living in New York and has been working as a publicist for Fodor’s Travel Publications for about a year and a half.

Dr. Samantha Krukowski received a BA in political science at Barnard College/Columbia University in 1988, an MA in art history at Washington University in 1992, an MA in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin in 1997 and a phd in art history at the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. She is assistant professor and area head of Convergent Media in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information please visit (http://cm.aces.utexas.edu).
Dr. Krukowski is also an artist and author. Her research interests include: space, place and topography, virtual/physical dimensionality and materiality; perceptual systems; narrative structures (http://www.cm.aces.utexas.edu/faculty/skrukowski/index.html).

Annelise Madsen has packed up in Chicago and is trekking out west to California. She is excited to dig into art history once again, and to assume that student identity which she loves so much. In California, she has begun a Ph.D. program in American art at Stanford.

Danielle Manchester started a job as a museum educator at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, CT. It is a wonderful job that has many responsibilities including both museum and after school programs that Danielle brings to community centers in the Museum’s van, the Brucemobile. Furthermore, she is working with trained adult and student docent programs, and she plans teacher programming.

Alison Melnik class of ’01, is currently living in Nashville, Tenessee, and is working as the assistant art curator at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.
www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/finearts/gallery.html

Terry Satuski Milhaupt was awarded the Ph.D. degree in May 2002. During the 2002-2003 academic year, as a Jane and Morgan Whitney Research Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she will conduct research on a group of seventeenth-century Japanese screen paintings referred to as “tagasode byobu.” On December 4, 2002, she traveled to Tokyo to present her research on “The Four-Hundred-Year Life of a Tsujigahana Textile: “From Secular Garment to Museum Artifact” at the “Moving Objects: Space, Time, Context” symposium sponsored by the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyujo). In March 2003, she will present her research on sixteenth-century Japanese textile fragments at the Association of Asian Studies conference as part of a panel entitled “The Fragmentation and Appreciation of Japanese Artifacts.” In October 2003, her essay on “The Fabrication of ‘Tsujigahana’ Garments and Fragments” will appear in the “Art of Oribe” exhibition catalog organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the fall of 2003, she plans to return to Kyoto to conduct research on altar cloths preserved in imperial convents.

Nicole Myers, BA with Honors 1999, has worked as a research assistant in the Arts of Europe Department at the MFA in Boston for three years. Her most recent assignment has been to help organize the Gauguin exhibition, which travels to Boston in spring 2004. Nikki began her Gauguin studies at Washington University with Professor Elizabeth Childs, who also contributed an essay to the catalogue for the Paris exhibition. Nikki plans to apply to graduate school this year, and to pursue a Ph.D. in art history.

Alan Pascuzzi, Ph.D. 1997, lives and teaches in Florence, Italy. In addition to teaching various courses in art history and art historical techniques, Alan has been successful in gaining a number of commissions to paint frescos (including a Resurrection for a street tabernacle on Via Ghibellina in Florence), and most recently has been commissioned to carve a Pietà in stone.

Kelly Scheffer, MA 2002, teaches survey of Western Art & Introduction to Modern Art at St. Charles Community College. She is also a research associate in art education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Ben Shatz, BA 2005, was invited to present his paper, Sofonisba Anguissola and the Chess Queen, at the National Undergraduate Symposium in Art History and Visual Culture in Portland, Oregon. His contribution to the symposium began as a research paper for Professor Dana Katz’s seminar Women and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe. He requested funding, estimated expenses and corresponded with the symposium organizers. If not for the symposium, he would not have experienced this side of art history as an undergraduate. The opportunity to give a presentation in front of a large group was also beneficial. He practiced his delivery with Professor Katz, who advised him about everything from slide usage to voice inflection. He presented his paper to the Department before the symposium and fielded questions (and took criticism) about his research. In Portland he made connections, meeting other students with similar interests and several professors from Portland State University and staff members from the Portland Art Museum. On the day of the symposium, he was the first person to present in the morning session and there were about fifty people in attendance. His talk went well and afterwards he was able to relax and listen to other students’ presentations, all of which were very interesting. He was excited to learn about what my peers were researching. It was wonderful for him to be part of a formal academic event and to present his research to a group of scholars, an opportunity generally unavailable to undergraduates. From beginning to end, his experience with the symposium was an extremely important part of his undergraduate education. He recommends that every student interested in pursuing a career involving art history apply for the opportunity. The project would not have been possible without the support of the Department of Art History and Archaeology and I hope that, in the future, similar funding will be available for students interested in pursuing similar ventures.

Amy Shearer, BA 2005, took time after graduation to travel through Europe before returning home to New Jersey and resuming her job search. Thanks to a contact she had met while giving a docent tour at the MildredLane Kemper Art Museum during the spring of her senior year, Amy was able to find a position in the New York arts community soon after her return to the states. She now works as the registrar for Pace Prints, an art gallery located on 57th street. Amy's 'behind the scenes' position allows her a unique vantage point from which to view the New York art market, as well as the opportunity to brush elbows with artists such as Chuck Close and Jim Dine. Soon after finding employment in the city, Amy moved to Gramercy Park, officially joining the ranks of other Wash U graduates who now call themselves New Yorkers, a list that includes former art history majors Leigh Anne Miller and Arielle Garber.

Rachel Sloan, BA magna cum laude in 2001, is now completing her dissertation at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London. Her topic is 'Cross-Channel Dialogues: Symbolism in Britain and France, c. 1878-1898'. She has many publications out and in press. These include: "Gustave Moreau’, exhibition review, Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1222, January 2005, pp. 60-61. ‘Too beautiful for a man: androgyny in Gustave Moreau’s mythological subjects’, Immediations 2, Spring 2005, pp. 73-90. ‘Delaware’s Pre-Raphaelites’, exhibition review, Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1231, October 2005. (Forthcoming): ‘Melancholy’, exhibition review, Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1235, February 2006. (Forthcoming) ‘Gustave Moreau and the Raffalovich family: new documents on Sappho (c. 1871-72)’, Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1236, March 2006. (Forthcoming) ‘“A slightly strange and striking poetry”: the reception of British Symbolist painting at the 1878 Exposition Universelle’, Rutgers Art Review 22, August 2006.

Isabel Suchanek has recently moved to Philadelphia. Contact the Department for an updated address.

Andrew Turk, BA 2000, is enrolled in the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeaons M.D. program this fall, as a member of the class of 2007.