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Yoshiaki Shimizu, distinguished scholar who ‘transformed the study of Japanese art’ and Princeton graduate alumnus, dies at 84
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Feb. 12, 2021 12:45 p.m.
Yoshiaki Shimizu, the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus, and a renowned scholar of Japanese art history, curator and Princeton graduate alumnus, died on Jan. 20, 2021, of lung cancer at home in Portland, Oregon. He was 84.
Yoshiaki Shimizu
Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
His research interests in Japanese art included Japanese ink painting of the medieval period, the arts of Zen Buddhism, Heian and Kamakura narrative painting, Sino-Japanese cultural history of the 12th through the 16th century, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, and Kamakura Buddhism and its art.
Watch artist Jeremy Colbert talk about his journey to becoming an educator.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 10, 2021) Artist Jeremy Colbert didn’t set out to be an educator.
But the sculptor found a passion for problem-solving during his graduate studies that he enjoyed sharing with students something his University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies students are very appreciative of today.
The project, described as an “ongoing essay about the presence and function of Blackness in society,” originally began in 2004 and will add 22 new pieces this spring for an on-campus installation in early April.
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Full month of events on tap for Black History Month
“Dance Dance” is the featured image for 2021 MU Black History Month Committee. The art is a piece from Jessica Thorton, an assistant professor in the School of Visual Studies in the College of Arts and Science.
From explorations of Black joy to Blackness in the Americas and the diaspora, this month the University of Missouri will take a deep dive into Black culture and Black history during its celebration of Black History Month. The theme for this year’s series of plays, lectures, panel discussions and other events is “Black Families: Representation, Identity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Histories.”