Points of Pride
Our students and alumni at work:
- Art History students present research at national and international conferences: Mariana Gomez, James Cartwright, and Ashley Williams.
- Undergraduate students selected for Juried Annual University Student Exhibition at the Atlantic Center for the Arts every year since it began in 1990.
- Catherine Gomez, BFA alumna, awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad in Chile. Gomez was also a 2018 Research in Arts Scholar.
- Ellen Mueller, a 2011 alumna of the USF MFA in Studio Art program and a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, published a textbook in 2018 with Routledge Press entitled, 鈥淩emixing and Drawing: Sources, Influences, Styles.鈥�
- Skowhegan Artist Residencies, by invitation: Pat Blocher (2019), Jake Troyli (2019), Bahareh Khoshooee (2018), Walter Mathews (2017).
Studio Faculty 鈥� Awards and Recognitions
Jason Lazarus
In 2024, Associate Professor, Jason Lazarus' collaborative project with Eric Fleischauer,
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Noelle Mason
Associate Professor Noelle Mason's wool tapestry titled Ground Control, depicting satellite images of the US/Mexico border, was included in RugLife at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco in 2024. Guest curated by Ginger
Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox of c2-curatorsquared, RugLife, features the work of 14 contemporary artists (including: Ai Weiwei, Nicholas Galanin,
Sonya Clark, and Andrea Zittle, among others) from around the world who use the rug
as a medium to address cultural issues such as religion, technology, social justice,
housing, and the environment.
Susanna Wallin
Assistant Professor Susanna Wallin鈥檚 film 鈥淟izzy鈥� (2024) screened at the Whitechapel
Gallery as part of the shortlisted films by Swedenborg Film Festival and won joint
Best Film together with the magnificent 鈥淭o cut a tree on a green moon鈥� by Felipe
Esparaza Perez, awarded by guest judge Xiaolu Guo.
Shengwei Zhou
Assistant Professor, Shengwei Zhou鈥檚 animation, Perfect City: The Bravest Kid has been included in eight international film festivals, and was nominated for the
best animation short film by the Norwich Film Festival. Perfect City: The Bravest Kid was recognized at Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival, Dallas International Film
Festival, and The Houston International Film Festival in 2024.
Sue Havens
Associate Professor, Sue Havens was selected to participate in the significant exhibition
Drawing by Sculptors at the Helena Anrather Gallery in New York City curated by Carl D鈥橝lvia. The exhibition
brought together more than 80 drawings made by sculptors over the last half century.
The result is both an intergenerational dialogue between artistic practices and an
intensive conversation between two mediums, revealing how ideas ricochet between drawing
and sculpture as each reshapes the other in an ongoing and ever-changing coevolution.
Anat Pollack
Associate Professor, Anat Pollack鈥檚 video/dance project in collaboration with Merry
Lynn Morris, The North Wind and The Sun recently won Best Dance Film Short at the Kiez Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
In 2023 and 2024, this work also travelled to Film Festivals around the world.
McArthur Freeman
Associate Professor, McArthur Freeman will be the inaugural Artist-In-Resident at
the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University in Houston,
TX in 2025. The center provides a unique hub for conversations on crucial topics:
critical approaches to race and racism, the nature of diasporic histories and identities,
and the complexity of Africa鈥檚 past, present, and future to name a few.
Andrew Scott Ross
In 2024, USF School of Art and Art History Director, Andrew Scott Ross鈥檚 wax drawings
were included in the Delta Triennial at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Founded
by AMFA in 1958 as a juried exhibition, the Delta is named after the fertile floodplains surrounding the Mississippi River and seeks
to amplify artistic voices in the Mid-South as they reflect complex histories and
shifts in the cultural landscape.
Joo Woo
Associate Professor Joo Woo鈥檚 recent (2024) solo exhibition, Do Not Draw a Red Star at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn consists of over one-hundred hand painted paper cutouts.
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Woo鈥檚 immigration from South Korea to the
United States, the collaged imagery reflects the intricate layers of the artist鈥檚
identity and the personal stories that have influenced her practice.
Adam Farcus
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Adam Farcus鈥� work 鈥淔IRE IN AMERICA,鈥� was selected
for the group exhibition Mark: Current Approaches to Drawing at Artlink Contemporary Gallery in Fort Wayne, IN juried by Shelby Shadwell. This
group exhibition featured artwork by 25 US artists exploring current approaches to
drawing.
Art History Faculty 鈥� Awards and Recognitions
Dr. Helene Sz茅pe
Professor Helena Sz茅pe published with Gianmario Guidarelli, Chiara Ponchia, and Federica Toniolo a new book titled, Il monastero femminile di Santa Croce alla Giudecca. Spazi, libri e immagini a Venezia tra Medioevo ed et脿 moderna (Rome: Viella, 2024). Her previous book Venice Illuminated: Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts (Yale University Press, 2018) was voted the winner of the 2019 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Best Book Prize in Renaissance Venetian Studies, and also received the prestigious Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize.
Dr. Esra Ak谋n-K谋van莽
Dr. Esra Ak谋n-K谋van莽 contributed a book chapter on the Ottoman art of calligraphy to A Sourcebook on Ottoman Studies, ed., Linda Darling (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in print, 2024). Associate Professor Esra Ak谋n-K谋van莽 has been awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award by the Provost鈥檚 Office (2023-2024).
Dr. Sheramy Bundrick
Professor Sheramy Bundrick鈥檚 new peer-reviewed article 鈥淧omp锚, Peplos, Poikilia: Picturing the Panathenaia on an Athenian Amphora鈥� was published in Greek and Roman Musical Studies 12 (March/April 2024): 3-38.
Dr. Pamela Merrill Brekka
Associate Professor of Instruction, Dr. Pamela Merrill Brekka published 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥� Escondidos no Caminho, exhibition catalog, Dan Pelegrin, ed. Museo de Arte DA UFC, Universidade Federal do Cear谩, 2023.
Dr. Elisabeth Fraser
Professor Elisabeth Fraser鈥檚 book Mediterranean Encounters: Artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774鈥�1839 (Penn State University Press, 2017) received a 鈥�2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title鈥� award.