Students

Megan Piorko, Studio & Art History 2011

Megan Piorko was accepted into the MA program in Art History at Georgia State University with a graduate assistantship. She will begin the program in the fall.

Michael Tomaselli, Senior Art History Major

Michael will be presenting a paper, “The Role of the Demon: A Subconscious Mechanism Against Authority in 14th to 17th-Century Europe” at the 6th annual Longwood University Undergraduate Medieval Conference in March. He also has received a CSURF Student Travel Award to fund his attendance at the conference

Amanda Summerlin, Art History 2010

Amanda recently completed the Intern and Docent program at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and is now working on the National Geographic's Save the Archive project. She also serves as the Weekend Coordinator for the Montgomery County Historical Society in Rockville, MD.

Lauren Brown, Art History

Lauren is working as an associate at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA.

Mallory Nanny, Art History 2010

Mallory received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Richmond in London. She is currently teaching as an adjunct professor at Stanly County Community College.

Sarah Richter, Art History 2010

Sarah is working on her M.A. in Art History from the University of Richmond in London.

Isabel Heblich joins archeological excavation in Egypt

During the summer of 2011, UNCW Art History student Isabel Heblich joined Dr. Nicholas Hudson on an archaeological excavation in the central Nile delta in Egypt. The project, in its third year, is a multi-institutional excavation of a Greco-Roman city called Tell Timai (ancient Thmuis, which dates roughly from 350 BC to AD 700). Isabel acted as dig artist; drawing all pottery that will eventually be published and all artifacts that need to be drawn for archiving and publication. In the course of the six week season, Isabel drew more than three hundred objects. She also had the opportunity to dig in the field and helped excavate one of the season’s most exciting discoveries: an intact deposit of pottery found on the floor of a house dating to around 185 BC.

Pam Toll takes UNCW students to Macedonia

In June 2011, ten UNCW students and their professor Pamela Toll, visited the most important cultural points in Macedonia (in Skopje, Ohrid, Bitola and Krusevo), and created art in the village of Sloestica, at the Art Center “Art Point – Gumno” as part of a Macedonian Culture class.The visit to Macedonia was the final phase of a six month’s project in which the students explored the history and culture of Macedonia.