Introduction of Luna Insight
The Department of Art History and Archaeology is pleased to announce its important role in the acquisition and development of Luna Insight, an innovative digital image management system. Recommended by the Sam Fox Art Center Digital Imaging Committee and recently purchased by Washington University Libraries, Luna Insight will allow faculty and students to search for, retrieve, and present digital materials in a visually dynamic image “workspace.” The Luna insight system reflects the true potential of technology to provide broad and consistent access to digital resources, including images, film, and sound, while allowing its users to seek and create their own instructional materials. As stated by a faculty member, “This system will revolutionize the way I prepare and deliver lectures, perhaps even affecting the way I think about images. I imagine it will have the same effect on student presentations, studying, and research.” …continue
To learn more about Luna Insight, contact Betha Whitlow, Curator of Visual Resources, bwhitlow@artsci.wustl.edu.

Teaching Gallery
In celebration of the Washington University Sesquicentennial, the Gallery of Art invited four faculty members from the Department of Art History and Archeology to select their favorite objects from the Gallery of Art’s permanent collection and display them in the Teaching Gallery. The works were then discussed in a series of “Object Lesions” held at the University-wide 150th Birthday Party on September 14, 2003. Over the course of four hours, interested students, alumni, and members of the public came to listen to talks on 19th-century art with Associate Professor Elizabeth Childs, Dutch art with Assistant Professor Paul Crenshaw, American Art with Associate Professor Angela Miller, and Contemporary Art with Assistant Professor Rebecca DeRoo.

The Teaching Gallery is a relatively new initiative of the Washington University Gallery of Art launched in 2002-03. The Teaching Gallery is a public exhibition space designed for University faculty members to integrate the resources of the Gallery of Art’s permanent collection into their courses and to enhance student education.

Department Field Trip to Boston, November 15-17. 2003
The trip, overall, proved to be both educational and inspirational. Participants totaled an unprecedented number of 55- including members of the faculty, undergraduate majors, and graduate students. Visits to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston were scheduled. In addition, students had the option of making excursions to other museums, collections, and art events in the area: including the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Fogg Museum, the Sachler Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Boston Fine Arts Fair.

Professors Gwen Bennet, Elizabeth Childs, and Rebecca DeRoo hosted gallery visits, respectively, at the MFA’s Asian Galleries, the Post-Impressionist Galleries, and the Institute of Contemporary Art’s special exhibit “Splat Boom Pow!: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art.” Events were planned specifically for undergraduates to meet with alumni in the Boston area to discuss art-related careers after obtaining a BA degree. Andrea Marquit Clagett graciously invited the group to view her contemporary art collection at her Louisburg Square residence. Nicole Myers, who works as assistant in the Museum of Fine Arts (Arts of Europe Department), mentored students about exploring jobs in the curatorial field. -Atsushi Yoshida, Ph.D. student in American Art