2008-2009 STUDENT AWARDS IN HISTORY OF ART

Congratulations to all the winners!

Awards for Excellence in Art History (undergraduate)

Outstanding student in Art History: Tia Welch
Outstanding student in Art History and Religious Studies: Carlos Rivas
Outstanding student in Art History and Administrative Studies: Casey Lee
Tomas Rivera Award: Jane Arney

The Barry Neil Zarakov Memorial Scholarship (undergraduate)

The Department of the History of Art proudly announces Loreley Bower as the Barry Neil Zarakov Memorial Scholarship recipient for Spring 2008. Currently a junior, Loreley plans to continue her scholastic pursuits to the graduate and doctorate levels.

2009 Catherine Lees Causey Memorial Award (undergraduate or graduate)

Dr. Faya Causey, a UCR Alumna, established the in memory of her mother, Catherine Lees Causey, also an alumna of the Art History Department MA program. Dr. Causey feels that this gift is a worthy way to celebrate her mother's life and passion for Art History. Students are awarded the Award because their work represents innovation, creativity and a courageous approach to the field of Art History and its relation to areas in the humanities. The History of Art Department is pleased to announce dual recipients for 2009: graduate students Julianne Johnson and Megan Blythe.

The Richard C. Carrott Memorial Fund Award (undergraduate or graduate)

The Department of the History of Art proudly announces graduate student Amanda Cook as the recipient of the Richard C. Carrott Memorial Fund Award. The award will greatly enhance Cook's thesis "Kneller Is To Smith As Reynolds Is To MacArdell?: The Relationship Between Portrait Painting And Mezzotint In Eighteenth-Century England." Cook will give a presentation of her findings in Fall 2009.

Outstanding Teaching Assistant for The Department of Art History (graduate)

The History of Art Department is pleased to honor graduate Megan Blythe as our outstanding teaching assistant for 2008-2009.

The Barbara B. Brink Travel Award (graduate)

The Department of the History of Art proudly announces Melinda Brocka as the recipient of the Barbara B. Brink Travel Award. The award will support Brocka's research for her thesis entitled "Thinking Inside The Square: The Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth Project." Mindy will conduct research in London during the summer and give a presentation of her findings in Fall 2009.

Maxwell H. Gluck Fellowships (graduate)

The Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts is the premier arts outreach program at the University of California, Riverside. Each year, the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts provides fellowships to exceptional UC Riverside undergraduate and graduate students to conduct arts-related presentations, performances, and workshops in schools, residential facilities for elderly care and community centers. Participating departments include Art, Creative Writing, Dance, History of Art, Music, and Theatre, as well as the Sweeney Art Gallery and the UCR/California Museum of Photography.

The Department of the History of Art proudly announces graduate student Amanda Cook as the recipient of the Gluck Fellowship for Summer 2009. Academic-year Gluck fellows included: Melinda Brocka, Amanda Cook, Conley Entwistle, Juli Johnson, Kaycee Olsen, Elizabeth Spear and Natasha Thoreson.



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Kodachrome to Be Discontinued

This news is bound make us (or at least some of us who recently converted to digital and were too young to live through the glory of the film era) sad. Kodak will discontinue Kodachrome. We will miss the never-too-fast 64 ISO speed.

Kodachrome, manufactured by Kodak, was the world's first successful color film. Introduced in 1935, by the 1950s and 1960s it was the standard film stock for color still-photography. In recent decades, however, Kodachrome's popularity decreased significantly because of the special processing needed to develop it. Unlike virtually every other slide-film, which uses the E-6 processing method, Kodachrome required a special processing method that only Kodak itself provided and it was therefore much more of a hassle (and expensive) to get it developed. It was necessary for photographers to send their film to Kodak laboratories and wait for the slides to return developed in the mail. It was not possible to get it developed in one's local laboratory. This inconvenience, along with the fact that most photographers no longer use film, led to increasingly low sales which prompted Kodak to retire its most iconic film product.

Some of the twentieth century's most famous photographs were taken using Kodachrome film, such as Steve McCurry's famous portrait of the "Afghan Girl," shown on the left.

"I want to take (the last roll) with me and somehow make every frame count ... just as a way to honor the memory and always be able to look back with fond memories at how it capped and ended my shooting Kodachrome," McCurry said last week from Singapore, where he has an exhibition at the Asian Civilizations Museum.*

Kodachrome developed a strong cult following. Henceforth dozens of websites are devoted to it. On Flickr, for instance, groups such as "Kodachrome" and "Vintage Kodachrome" receive uploads on a daily basis.

We can only hope that Fujifilm doesn't discontinue Velvia in the near future...

*Source: Carolyn Thomson, "Sorry, Paul Simon, Kodak's taking Kodachrome away." 22 June 2009. Associated Press, 22 June 2009 <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_re_us/us_kodachrome_s_demise>.

New Officers for 2009-2010

Congratulations to all the new officers! Our new officers are:

President, Loreley Bower
Vice-President, Carlos Rivas
VP of Membership Outreach, David Torres
Treasurer, Maria Vega
Recording Secretary, Ramona Bartolome
Membership Secretary, Melinda Foley
Social Director, Brianna Barrett
Public Relations Director, Christine Czechowski
Webmaster, Vincent Pham

Art History Association Nominated for New Student Organization of the Year

The Art History Association was nominated last night at the 2009 Student Organization Awards. The awards ceremony was modelled after televised awards ceremonies (such as the MTV Movie Awards), complete with comical hosts, guest presenters, and musical interludes.

The awards ceremony was held at HUB 302 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.