Department of Studio Art Bulletins

Professor Sarah Schuster Retirement Exhibition

Professor of Painting, Sarah Schuster, is retiring and the Studio Art Department has organized If Walls Could Talk, a celebratory exhibition of student and alumni artwork in the Richard D. Baron Gallery fromAugust 1st - September 27th, 2024. We are extending an invite to all of Sarah’s former students to join us in celebration of her contributions to the art world and the lives of everyone she has impacted. Please RSVP for this event and submit a sentiment that will be presented during the exhibition closing celebration on September 27th, 2024.

Professor Matthew Rarey Awarded Charles Rufus Morey Book Award

Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History Matthew Rarey has won the College Art Association’s prestigious Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for his first book, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2023). The award honors "an especially distinguished book in the history of art, published in the English language," and is among the highest recognitions for scholarship in art history. Prof. Rarey's book traces the history of the African-associated amulets made and carried as tools of survival by enslaved people from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Matthew Rarey has also been named the winner of the 2024 Afro Latin American/Afro-Latinx Scholarship Prize for his essay “Leave No Mark: Blackness and Inscription in the Inquisitorial Archive,” published in Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World (National Gallery of Art, 2023). The award honors an outstanding scholarly essay on Afro Latin American and Afro-Latinx art, and is awarded jointly by the Association of Latin American Art and the Visual Culture Section of the Latin American Studies Association.