News
-
Faculty Spotlight
Faculty Recognized for Poster Design
Instructor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications Kevin McGroarty’s posters for the Loyola Theatre Program's mainstage productions of AS YOU LIKE IT and FAIRVIEW have been awarded Honorable Mention in Graphis Magazine’s juried International Poster competition 2025. Chosen by an esteemed jury of industry experts, his work will be highlighted on the website and listed in the Graphis Poster 2025 book.
Graphis has been chronicling creative excellence since 1944 , inspiring professionals and emerging talents worldwide. Graphis is committed to celebrating global visual communication excellence by championing the most influential work across Design, Advertising, Photography, and Illustration Art.
VIEW -
in the media
Loyola Professor Betsy Odom Navigates Queer Identity with Humor
“I had zero queer influence when I was a young person,” Odom said. “It was just all foreign and alien and no way to get information at all. So I feel this real stewardship of queer identity when I’m teaching or when I’m working with students.” - Betsy Odom
Click to read a recent feature of Odom's work in The Loyola Phoenix.
READ -
Faculty Research
Faculty photographs acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
SFMOMA has recently acquired a series of photographs by Associate Professor and Director of Fine Arts, Noritaka Minami. The acquired photos are from Minami's '1972/Accumulations' series, which documents Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower. The building proposed a radical prototype for a new mode of living and Minami's work captures how this vision of the future appears in retrospect.READ MORE -
.jpg)
Faculty Research
Recent Art History Publications by Dr. Olivia Wolf
Dr. Olivia Wolf, Assistant Professor in Art History, has published several new peer-reviewed texts over the 2022-23 academic year, engaging with both her primary and secondary areas of research in Latin American and Middle Eastern art, respectively.
Most recently, her article, "Transnational traces in the Espigas repository: Bibí Zogbé's artistic production and early critical reception at the Galerías Witcomb (1934-1937)" was published as part of the bilingual Spanish-English Cuadernos series by the Centro de Estudios Espigas / Centro de Investigaciones en Arte y Patrimonio (CONICET-UNSAM). In this article, Wolf examines the creative production and critical framing of Arab-Argentine artist Bibí Zogbé via a series of exhibition catalogs published by the Buenos Aires-based Witcomb Gallery in the 1930s and 40s.
LEARN MORE -
Engaged Learning
Loyola Day Brings Art History Student Presentations to the Art Institute of Chicago
The Loyola Phoenix covered the most recent iteration of Loyola Day at the Art Institute of Chicago, where Art History majors get the opportunity to give presentations on works in the collection to the museum-going public. This experience teaches them that the art historical knowledge they have to share is important.
“To me, it is literally the best kind of engaged learning." - Paula Wisotzki, Ph.D, Professor of Art History
READ MORE -
In the Media
What makes America what it is: Abstraction and freedom take root at Ralph Arnold Gallery.
The Ralph Arnold Gallery exhibition In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is curated by Matt Morris and featuring works by Kim Krause, Morgan, Sabina Ott was recently reviewed in the Chicago Reader.READ -
student research
Questioning the Canon: Creating Diversity in Graphic Design History Zine Exhibition
December 1, 2022 - February 15, 2023
Cudahy Library, First Floor | Lake Shore Campus
Students conducted original research into an under-served or under-considered graphic designer, design group, movement, or region. They then used this research to create an Instagram post, a TikTok video, an exhibition poster, and the zines featured in the Cudahy Library.
READ -
-
faculty research
Art History Faculty Publishes Research
Art History faculty Rebecca Ruppar has recently published an article in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture.
In "A Hierophany of Nature in Early Franciscans' Wood-Panel Paintings," Ruppar examines how the religious order founded by Francis of Assisi emerges as one of the most prolific patrons of the arts in the 13th century, creating images to encourage devotion among the Christian laity.
The basic, organic elements of these paintings: wooden boards, animal glue, linen, linseed oil, and egg tempera paints conceivably held a deeper meaning derived from their founder's nature-imbued spirituality that exalted God's earthly creation. The paintings created by the early Franciscans may be understood as exhibiting a kind of "active respect" for nature.
READ MORE -
Faculty
Through the Photographer's Lens
Photography Professor Nori Minami reflects on his most recent project "California City (Real Estate)" and the challenge of embracing technology in and out of the classroom.READ -
