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The Burke Library Browsing area will host "Nine canvases, One installation," an exhibition of an independent project in painting by Xin Wang, a senior art history and math double major. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 1, at 3 p.m. It is funded by the Casstevens Family Scholarship, supervised by Professor of Art William Salzillo, and co-curated with Couper Librarian Randy Ericson. Refreshments will be served.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh presented a visiting artist lecture titled "Play" at Virginia Commonwealth University on Sept. 4. She discussed her artworks conceived and exhibited over the past seven years, including the new series "The Sweetest Battle." In her work, she used diverse formats and media to create works that are both intellectually and visually seductive, such as using Post-it Notes to transcend the use of everyday objects.  While at VCU she also visited with graduate students in the Craft and Material Studies Department, who sponsored the lecture.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald’s essay, "Avant-Gardens," was recently published in Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman's Women and Experimental Filmmaking. The essay focuses on films relating to gardens and to the idea of the garden as a sacred space. MacDonald also wrote a preface for a new edition of Amos Vogel's classic film book Film As a Subversive Art, which has just been published by C.T. Editions in London. The book is a survey of subversive cinema.

Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies Diane Fox has written a chapter as part of the book Le Viet Nam au Feminin. Fox's chapter titled “Speaking with Women in Vietnam about the Consequences of War: writing against silence and forgetting” focuses on women’s issues in Vietnam today. The book is edited by Gisele Bousquet and Nora Taylor, and published by Les Indes Savantes, Paris.