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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.
Ruth Anne Phillips
Visiting Professor of Art
Departments: Art History
Office: Montgomery Hall 140a
Email: raphillips@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4439
Bio:
Ruth
Anne Phillips completed her Ph.D. in 2007 from the Graduate Center of
the City University of New York. Her research interests are focused
primarily in the Pre-Columbian Andes and, especially, with the Inka. She
is currently
working on a research project that examines particular architectural
features at a number of Sacred Valley Inka sites in Peru in and around
Machu Picchu. Other projects relate to her dissertation, "'Pre-Columbian
Revival': Defining and Exploring a U.S. Architectural
Style, 1910-1940," which looks at the use of Pre-Columbian elements in
U.S. architecture. Since earning her Ph.D. she has been Visiting
Assistant Professor at York College of the City University of New York
and at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.
She is pleased to be at St. Mary's for this academic year.
Courses Taught:
- ARTH100: Introduction to Art History
- ARTH224: Ancient American Art and Architecture
- ARTH250:Andean Art and Architecture
- ARTH250: Visualizing Pre-Columbian Cosmology: Origins, Calendars, Doomsday
- ARTH350: Oceanic Art
- ARTH350: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
