University of Central Arkansas

Established in 1991, the Arkansas College Art History Symposium seeks to encourage and recognize student achievement in art history in the state. Providing a much-needed forum for emerging undergraduate and graduate students, the symposium features 20-minute illustrated talks on a wide variety of topics in art history.  The symposium also encourages cooperation among art history faculty throughout the state. Each symposium includes the participation of a guest art historian who typically comments on the student papers and presents a scholarly paper on their own research.

Past symposia have welcomed scholars representing a wide range of specialized fields within the discipline:

2009, Dr. Matthew Landrus (Renaissance and Baroque)
         Lyme College of Fine Arts

          and

        Dr. Mallica Kumbera-Landrus (Indian Art)
         Rhode Island School of Design

2008, Dr. Paul Crenshaw (Northern Baroque)
         Washington University

2007, Dr. Colin Cruise (19th-Century British Art)
          School of Art, the University of Wales at Aberystwyth

2006, Dr. Gitti Salami (African)
          University of Kansas

2005, Dr. Howard Risatti (Contemporary and Critical Theory),
          Virginia Commonwealth University

2004, Dr. Betsy Fahlman (American)
          Arizona State University

2003, Dr. Ben Hufbauer (Architectural History)
          University of Louisville

2002, Dr. Shaw Smith (19th Century European)
          Davidson College

2001, Dr. Ajay Sinha (Asian Art)
          Mount Holyoke University

2000, Dr. Pamela Simpson (American)
         Washington and Lee University

1999, Dr. Henri Dorra (19th Century European)
          University of California Santa Barbara (retired)

1998, Dr. Patricia Matthews (Modern Art)
          Oberlin College

1997, Ms. Barbara Hill (Public Art)
          Tampa Art in Public Places Program Coordinator

1996, Dr. Susan Appel (Modern Architecture)
          Illinois State University

1995, Dr. Daniel Ehnbom (South Asian Art)
          University of Virginia

1994, Dr. Elizabeth C. Teviotdale (Medieval)
          J. Paul Getty Museum

1993, Dr. Norman Land (Italian Renaissance and Baroque)
          Memphis State University

1992, Dr. Lauren Soth (Architectural History)
          Carleton College

1991,