Upcoming Events
Jan 23 - 10:00 AM
Remediate/ Re-Vision: Public Artists Engaging the Environment
Jan 30 - 4:45 PM
Presentation & Reception, Artists as Environmental Catalysts: in Context and in Community
Jan 31 - 8:30 PM
Lecture by Dr. Angela Rajagopalan: Codex Aubin and 16th Century Printed Texts
Contact Us
Carrie Patterson, Chair
Associate Professor of Art
Phone: 240-895-4252
Email: ccpatterson@smcm.edu
Office Staff: 240-895-4225
Alumni Where are they now?
Hannah Piper Burns (studio art, 2006) achieved her MFA in 2009 from the San Francisco Art Institute. She currently lives and works in Portland, OR as a freelance art writer, communications director for the Museum of Pocket Art, and a social media and blog coordinator for artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson. Her recent work can be found at www.hannahpiperburns.com.
Joe Lucchesi
Associate Professor of Art
Departments: Art History
Office: Montgomery Hall 145
Email: jelucchesi@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4248
Bio
Joe Lucchesi is Associate Professor of Art History and joined the faculty in 2000. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a dissertation that focused on visual strategies of emerging gay and lesbian subcultures of the early 20th century, especially lesbian expatriate communities in Paris and London. He curated Amazons in the Drawing Room: the Art of Romaine Brooks at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and the University Museums at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000, as part of this ongoing research interest. His current research focuses on issues of history and memory in photography and on images of the American soldier in World War 2-era advertising campaigns. At St. Mary's, Dr. Lucchesi teaches European and American art from ancient to contemporary times. His other teaching interests include issues of gender and sexuality, alternative media, critical theory, and Museum Studies.
Recent Scholarship
Naked Soldiers, Homoeroticism, and Selling Towels from
the Front in WW2, National Popular
Culture/American Culture Association national conference, 2007 Alfred Mauer and the Modern Body, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, 2005 “Something Hidden,
Secret, and Eternal: Romaine Brooks, Radclyffe Hall, and the Lesbian Image in The
Forge,” The Modern Woman Revisited:
Paris Between the Wars, eds. Whitney Chadwick and Tirza Latimer (New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press, 2003), 169-182. Ballbreakers and Companions: Feminists and Lesbians in
the Film Possession,
National Popular Culture/American Culture Association national conference,
2003. Amazons in the Drawing Room. Exhibition Catalogue. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2000. The Body’s Shadow: On Archives, Photographs, and Queer Desire. Addressing (and Redressing) the Silence: New Scholarship in Sexuality and American Art symposium, National Portrait Gallery, 2011.
