Orianna Cacchione, deputy director and curator of exhibitions for University Museums, published Indelible Traces. The book accompanies an exhibition that she curated that is currently on view at the AD&A Museum UC Santa Barbara. Indelible Traces is the first scholarly monograph on the multi-disciplinary artist Tiffany Chung’s work over the last twenty-five years.
Brittany Nelson, associate professor of photography and extended media, discusses her current exhibition List Projects 34: Brittany Nelson in Bomb.
Brittany Nelson, associate professor of photography and extended media, is currently exhibiting List Projects 34: Brittany Nelson at The List Visual Arts Center, MIT’s contemporary art museum. The show highlights photographs and a moving-image work filmed at the Green Bank Observatory. Nelson’s work considers how scientific inquiry and emotional projection converge, transforming instruments of cosmic detection into metaphors for intimacy, distance, and longing.
Elena Calvillo was promoted to professor of art & art history. Her research and writing focus on artistic service and imitative strategies in sixteenth-century papal Rome. She is broadly interested in theories of representation and cultural translation and brokerage in Italy, Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century.
Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, presented his latest film Monument with a live score accompaniment at Studio Two Three. The event also featured Eric Eckhart (Elabor), time-based media production studio manager, performing a live score to a screening of Fugue.
Associate Professor of Art, Jeremy Drummond’s latest film Monument was presented at the Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, and listed as an Official Selection at the Anticensura Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival, Ethnografilm Paris,Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, and the Arquiteturas Film Festival. The film won the First Place Award and the Kathryn Stephens Virginia Filmmaker Award at the James River Film Society's 32nd Short Film Showcase at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where it was an Official Selection. See the full list of screenings.
Agnieszka Szymańska, associate professor of art history, published "Slaying the Embodiment of Lust: A Painting of a Martyr-Monk Vanquishing a Female Demon" in the Journal of Early Christian Studies.
Jeremy Drummond, associate professor of art, presents his latest film, Monument, at the Mykonos Biennale, 37th Girona Film Festival, and SPE Media Festival, and as an Official Selection at CineSalon Experimental Film Festival, Centre Film Festival 2025 and RPM25/Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, where it won the Best of RPM 25 Film Award. Drummond presented the film at XV ENCUENTRO PARA CINÉFAGOS and UFF - Underground Film Festival, where it won Best Video Art Award at both festivals. Drummond received the First Place Award in Classic Experimental Film at the Denver Underground Film Festival. See the full list of screenings.
Megan Driscoll, assistant professor of art history, was named a University of Richmond Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI) 2025-2026 Fellow.
Associate Professor of Art Jeremy Drummond’s film, Monument, has been named an Official Selection by Brooklyn Film Festival, Digerati Experimental Media Festival, St. Moritz Art Film Festival, Umbria Underground Film Festival, TerraLenta International Environmental Documentary Film Festival, Experimental Brasil Film Festival, Mesa International Film Festival, Beaufort Film Festival and Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Sandy Williams IV, assistant professor of art, was awarded the Community-Engaged Scholarship Award by the Bonnor Center for Civic Engagement at the eighth annual Engage for Change Awards.
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. Szymańska is an expert on the architecture and painted decoration of late antique and medieval monasteries in the Mediterranean. Learn more.