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Summer exhibitions and projects by Molly Valentine Dierks include:

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
The international DesignTO Festival, Toronto, Canada
An expanding 3 large pastel LED ‘light drawings’ to a collection of 13, with the support of an AHUM faculty research award.��

the tender hand of the Unseen (‘On Pain’ by Khalil Gibran)
Denver Night Lights program
Featuring sculptural formations of starlings.

when I heard the learn’d astronomer (Walt Whitman)
Featured in the exhibition, "Time Folded" at Independent & Image Art Space (Chongqing, China).��This work will be featured in South Korea and New York, and in the book New Media Art (2027), CICA Press.��

The ��ñ���� Arts & Sciences Magazine featured one of Molly's recent projects, “Artist features beauty of nature on 140-foot canvas”. By Rachel Sauer.

Molly was awarded a ���� Arts & Sciences Fund for Excellence Award in June.

Congratulations to our tenure-track faculty on their recent promotions!

Promoted to full Professor
Richard Saxton (Art Practices, Sculpture & Post-studio Practice)

Promoted to Associate Professor
Anna Tsouhlarakis (Art Practices, Foundations), Marina Kassianidou (Art Practices, Drawing & Painting) and Brianne Cohen (Art History, Contemporary Art)

We are excited to officially welcome Sonja Gandert, Assistant Professor, Latinx Art, and Christine Bachman, Assistant Teaching Professor, to the Art & Art History Department!

Sonja Gandert’s research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary Latinx and Latin American art, with a particular emphasis on Chicanx art of the U.S. Southwest. Other areas of study include the art of the Caribbean and its diasporas, historiography and institutional histories of Latinx art, and intersections between the “traditional” arts, ecology, activism, materiality, and health in New Mexico and Puerto Rico. Her current book project examines the work of artists in New Mexico and Texas during the long 1970s through the lens of la resolana, a northern New Mexico Spanish term used to refer to the sunny, wind-protected side of a building where villagers gather to converse. From the late 1960s onward, Chicano activists in northern New Mexico theorized and reactivated the notion of resolana as method and critical praxis by gathering community-sourced anecdotes, proverbs, recipes, remedies, and artistic techniques from elder generations, which were then documented and disseminated toward grassroots pedagogical ends.��

Christine Bachman's teaching and research focus on the forms and functions of medieval art and its significance within a geographically-expansive worldview. Her research concentrates on early medieval manuscripts with an emphasis on materials and production processes, the construction and dissemination of decorative motifs, and artistic connections between northwestern Europe and the wider world in the eighth century. In 2020, she curated the online exhibit, “A Liberal Arts Education for the (Middle) Ages: Texts, Translations, and Study” for the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and in 2019, curated the exhibit “The Gothic Library: Medieval Revival Designs for Books and Their Spaces” for the Winterthur Library.