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UA Art Presenters Show Out at SECAC

Aidan Miles-Jamison and Ivy Borden pose for a picture at SECAC 2024. Image courtesy of Doris Sung.

Faculty, students, and alumni recently represented the UA Department of Art and Art History at SECAC, one of the nation’s preeminent art conferences. A group of six professors and five current and former students presented research, chaired sessions, and won awards at the 80th annual conference, which took place in Atlanta, Georgia from October 23-26, 2024. Faculty Participation Dr. Rachel Stephens, professor of art history and current Secretary of SECAC, earned the William R. Levin Award for Research in the History of Art, post-1750 for […]

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UA Art Faculty Present Research at Major Higher Ed Conference

photo of Nadia DelMedico

In October, UA art and art history faculty participated in the annual conference of one of the largest US organizations devoted to the study and practice of visual arts in higher education. UA faculty and graduate students gave research presentations at the conference, which took place in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Doris Sung, assistant professor of art history, presented “Mentors and Friends: Women Artists’ Collective Voice in Early Twentieth-Century China,” and graduate student Sara Morris presented “Kinship Structures: Viola Frey, Charles […]

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UA Art Faculty Bring Home Higher Ed Awards

Art history grad student Mary Benefield presents a paper.

In October, UA art and art history faculty brought home two of five Awards for Excellence from the annual conference meeting of SECAC, the second largest organization in the US that promotes the study and practice of the visual arts in higher education. Dr. Rachel Stephens, associate professor of art history, won the SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication for her new book Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture (University of Arkansas Press). […]

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Art Grad Students, Faculty, New Alumni Present Research at SECAC

Faculty, graduate students and alumni of UA art and art history made their mark at this year’s SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference), where they presented their current research at the annual meeting of one of the largest art conferences of its kind in the US. This year’s meeting was held in Baltimore, Maryland, Oct. 26-29, 2022. In the session, Art, Ecology, and Environmental Catastrophe in the Americas, Allison Grant and Teresa Cribelli (UA history) presented about their recent exhibition and […]

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UA Artists and Historians Commune for Online Arts Conference

SECAC 2020 program cover

The University of Alabama department of art and art history was well-represented at this year’s SECAC, held online because of COVID-19 and hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. SECAC (the Southeastern College Art Conference) is the annual meeting of one of the largest academic art organizations in the country. Research papers by three UA faculty and four current or recent graduate students were accepted for presentation at the conference. In addition, two faculty members chaired presentation sessions. […]

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Graduate Student, Faculty Present Research at SECAC

A graduate student makes a digital slide presentation.

Students, faculty and alumni of the UA department of art and art history presented current research at SECAC in October, the annual meeting of one of the largest art conferences of its kind in the US. This year’s meeting was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Most notably, graduate student Faith Barringer presented her research, “The Progression of Masculinity in Catherine Leroy’s Corpsman in Anguish” in the session New Approaches to the History and Practice of Photography. Lucy Curzon (associate professor, contemporary/modern […]

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UA Art Presenters Hail SECAC Meeting Success

Art history graduate student Morgan Heard presenting thesis research at SECAC, Birmingham, 2018

The University of Alabama was well-represented at the recent national conference meeting of SECAC held in Birmingham October 17-20, 2018. Faculty, students and alumni of the UA Department of Art and Art History presented research and chaired sessions at the annual meeting of one of the largest art conferences of its kind in the US, hosted by UAB’s Department of Art and Art History and nicknamed “SECAC Y’all.” UA art faculty who gave presentations were Dr. Wendy Castenell, Jonathan Cumberland, […]

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Trailblazer for Women: Virginia Rembert Liles

Originally published in the fall 2012 issue of The Loupe, as “Trailblazer for Women Leads UA Art into the Future,” by Rachel Dobson. When her former colleagues talk about Virginia Pitts Rembert Liles, the word “gracious” appears frequently in their descriptions of her. “She was gracious and diplomatic,” says Robert Mellown, UA professor emeritus of art history. Liles’ former student Professor Marilyn R. Brown (BSC 1972) remembers her teaching as “a combination of awesome erudition and gracious elegance.” UA professor […]

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