Keith Holz presented "Art in Germany's foreign relations"
Keith Holz, presented "Art in Germany's foreign relations: transnational gambits, 1939-1945," paper in session "Culture in the Nazi New Order," organized by Tim Kirk (University of Newcastle) and Benjamin G. Martin (San Francisco State University). 16th International Conference of the Council for European Studies at Columbia University (Drake Hotel, Chicago, March 6-8, 2008).
Holz has also submitted a grant to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD-New York), for a "Group Study Visit Grant." This is in conjunction with the Study Abroad Course for Fall Semester, with travel to Berlin (20-30 November 2008), "Berlin 2008: Contemporary Art and Museum Culture in the New Metropolis". The request is for approximately $7,000 to go toward defraying the cost of travel for each of the 10 student participants who have signed up. Holz has received and accepted offers to review the following books: Kathleen James-Chakraborty (ed.). Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Design and Culture (Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, a new peer-review journal forthcoming 2009) [Invited review Fall 2007, due summer 2008; and 1937: Perfektion und Zerstörung ; [for art exhibition "1937. Perfektion und Zerstörung" 30. September 2007 to 13. Januar 2008, Kunsthalle Bielefeld], by Thomas Kellein. Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Berlin: Wasmuth, 2007. [due Fall 2008] Holz has also published "From Engagement to Estrangement: Mapping Artists from Germany in Thirties France," forthcoming in Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists, and the Arrière-garde: Tradition Art in France, 1900-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2008. Edited by Nathalie Adamson & Toby Norris, forthcoming 2009. Holz paper proposal was submitted and accepted to present at the International Conference "Whose Art? Whose History? The Modernist Art Collections of Breslau Jewry Then and Now," First Congress of Jewish Art, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland on the Vistula River, on 27-29 October 2008. Holz is a member of the Council for European Studies (Columbia University, NY), Radical Art Caucus (College Art Association), Historians of Central European and German Art (HCEGA, CAA), German Studies Association, and the College Art Association.
Charles Stamper, BA 2008, Carthage, IL, and Kenny Yu, BFA senior, Carthage, IL, created a rural health care marketing consultancy business in a series of projects in Bruce Walter's graphic design classes. See their work at http://www.trizzie.com/