Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Art professor of experimental film, video art, and alternative media, Jeremy Drummond’s film, Monument, was selected to be featured at several film festivals including Bethesda Film Fest, Albany Film Festival, 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival, 33rd Arizona International Film Festival and Spatiotemporal Symposium: Experimental Film & Architecture.

Sandy Williams IV, assistant professor of art, features six new sculptures that embrace and elaborate on the nuances of time in their inaugural solo exhibition Life in Ellipsis with the Palo Gallery in New York. Their exhibition was also featured in Wallpaper*. Learn more.

Agnieszka Szymańska, associate professor of art history, has been awarded membership to the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's foremost centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. Learn more.

Sandy Williams IV, assistant professor of art, was named a 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellow for their work in socially engaged sculpture and performance art.

Sandy Williams IV, assistant professor of art, published “Dawould Bay: ‘Elegy’” in CAA.reviews, a review of the “Elegy” exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Tanja Softić, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Art and Art History, exhibited in the print installation "When We Meet Again, You Will Not Know Me" in the exhibition Edge Effect at the Wurks Gallery as part of the 2024 Southern Graphics Council International Annual Conference.

Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, presented his film “Dark Holler” as part of the exhibition What Does the Land Know?

G.M. Keaton, adjunct lecturer of art and art history, was awarded a fellowship for New and Emerging Media from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Program.

Agnieszka Szymańska was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of art history. Szymańska specializes in the architecture and painted decoration of late antique Egyptian monasteries, and whose technical expertise includes working directly on archeological sites with conservation professionals and archeologists.

Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology and art history, published the article "Forms and Functions of Beds and Couches in Etruscan and Anatolian Tombs" in a book she co-edited, Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange.

Brittany Nelson was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of photography and extended media. Dr. Nelson is an expert on 19th century photography, and her work combines 19th centuryphotographic chemistry and science fiction to explore themes of loneliness, isolation, anddistance within the queer community.

Sandy Williams IV, assistant professor of art, was awarded a 2023-24 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowship. Learn more.