News and Events (2009-2010 Academic Year):
Departmental name change is recognized by SU News. Click on this link to read the full article.
Forum on Music & Sound in Film,14-17 October 2009:
Organizers: Theo Cateforis and Stephen Meyer
Held in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film Festival and the Humanities Center’s Syracuse Symposium, the Forum on Music and Sound in Film will feature a keynote lecture by Richard Dyer as well as a screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with newly composed accompaniment by acclaimed composer Martin Matalon. An international array of film music scholars will gather with sound designers and film music composers to give presentations and exchange ideas. Screenings of key films will take place on Friday and Saturday evenings. The Forum on Music and Sound is funded by the Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, a SU Humanities Center Initiative generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Syracuse Symposium, a program in the SU Humanities Center.
The Fine Arts committee on student prizes is happy to announce the winners of department prizes for the calendar year 2008.
The Elizabeth Gilmore Holt Prize for best graduate student paper was awarded to Darin Stine for "Re-Identifying a Sheet of Michelangelo's Marble Blocks"
The Sidney Thomas Prize for best undergraduate paper in art history was warded to Meghan Maher for "Enamel Reliquaries: Chasse with Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty"
The winner of the Abraham Veinus Prize for best undergraduate paper in music history was awarded to Tiffany Newhill-Leahy for "Composition and Copyright: Girl Talk's Feed the Animals and the History of the Mashup"
The George Fisk Comfort Society is a student organization for graduate students, majors, and minors of the Department of Art & Music Histories.
The Society is devoted to integrating the outside arts world with the activities and career goals of students in Fine Arts. For example, the group has a resume/career help session, in which professors in the department educate the students about the job search in the world of fine arts.
Other activities include fieldtrips to area museums, and an arts film series.
Click here for schedule of events.
Romita Ray has been awarded an NEH Summer Stipend (2009).
David Tathem (Professor Emeritus) is guest curator of the "Winslow Homer's Empire State :Houghton Farm and Beyond" exhibition, running from August 18 - October 11 at the SUArt Galleries, and from November 9 - December 6 at the Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery, New York.
Gary Radke is curator of "Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius" exhibition at the High Museum, Atlanta, which runs from October 6, 2009 - February 21, 2010. He has been featured in the October 2009 issue of the Smithsonian Magazine.
Carol Babiracki is featured in the Nov/Dec issue of Making Music, in an article which explores the world of Ethnomusicology. The article, entitled "Sounds From Afar," was written by former SU student Meredith Laing.
Radke travels with students to study Da Vinci's work in Europe.
Student News
Every Fall semester, graduating Art History majors go to New York City on the Senior Seminar, a three-day fieldtrip designed to acquaint them with various professions in their field. This photograph was taken during a recent Senior Seminar fieldtrip, led by Professors Gary Radke and Laurinda Dixon.
Art history graduate student Lauren Sodano was nominated for Syracuse University Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee's Beyond Compliance Award for "demonstrated commitments to inclusion, positive changes and work that is 'beyond compliance' to foster the inclusion of students with disabilities." Sodano also presented the paper "A Sad State: Dissent and Melancholy in Seventeenth-Century Prints of London" at Power & Piety: Interplay Between State and Religion, a symposium held at the University of Missouri-Columbia in March 2008.
