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Department of Art
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6216
Fax: 910.521.6639
Email: art@uncp.edu

Location: Locklear Hall
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Dr. Amy Trevelyan

Amelia Trevelyan has taught Art History at UNCP since 2007.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Los Angeles, and holds an M.A. and B.A. in Art History from the University of Michigan.  She teaches regularly in many areas of the discipline, focusing most on the ancient arts of Greece and Rome, the art of the Italian Renaissance and art in the Nineteenth Century in Europe and the US, in addition to her research and publication areas, Native North American and Meso-American art, and Contemporary Art by women in the US.

Those research interests have resulted in various publications including Miskwabik, Metal of Ritual . University of Kentucky Press; ­ Ancient Mayan Gender Relations . Lowell Gustafson and Amelia Trevelyan, eds. Greenwood Publishers; Re-scripting the Story: Mary Beth Edelson 1970-2000 , Amelia M. Trevelyan, ed., Bäcklunds Boktryckeri, Malmö, Sweden; "Jaune Quick-to-See Smith", in Contemporary Masters: the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, Vol. 1 ; "Carl Beam", "Robert Houle", "Joshim Kakegamic", "Goyce Kakegamic", "Gerald McMaster", "Carl Ray" in St. James Guide to Native North American Artists , Roger Matuz, ed. St. James Press. Detroit; "American Indian Metalwork: Woodlands". The Dictionary of Art . MacMillan Publishers, Ltd., London.

Before joining the faculty at UNCP, Dr. Trevelyan taught Art History at Principia College and, before that, was Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Arts at Gettysburg College. She has sponsored and curated several exhibitions of contemporary art by Native American artists and authored and/or produced the accompanying catalogues. She also served as a consultant in fine arts for the US Department of the Interior and was a member of the ACI Advisory Task Force, Chicago Institute of Arts.

Dr. Trevelyan has received a variety of grants in support of her research and exhibition projects including: Towle Family Grant, 2003; College Art Association, Millard Meiss Publication Grant, 2000; National Endowment for the Arts, 1999; The Andy Warhol Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1999; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 1999; The Richard Florsheim Art Fund Grant, 1999.

Grant support has also made possible fieldwork and research projects on the Hopi, San Carlos Apache, Stockbridge-Munsee, Tohono O'odham and White Mountain Apache Reservations in the United States, as well as the study of ancient Greek ceramics (in the US, Greece, Germany, and Great Britain), the aesthetics of landscape painting in China, Mayan textiles and architecture in the Yucatan, and pre-contact metallurgy in museums throughout the US.

 

Updated: Friday, January 2, 2009

 

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