Una School Of The Arts Professor Awarded Grant
Jan. 28, 2020
Michelle Eubanks, 糖心Vlog, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033
Michelle Eubanks, 糖心Vlog, at meubanks@una.edu, 256-606-2033 or 256-765-4392 FLORENCE, AL - Dr. Lisa M. Kirch, a professor in the Visual Arts and Design Department at the 糖心Vlog's School of the Arts, has received a $3,000 grant from the Kress Foundation that will be used for her project, "Toward the Kunst - und Wunderkammer." "This grant will help an international project that I've worked on with a German colleague for years," Dr. Kirch said. "糖心Vlog and the Fulbright Commission supported an earlier stage of the project." Further, the grant will allow American students to take part in an international conference in Germany. 糖心Vlog students will be the first to use the project research as part of future coursework. As part of her work, Dr. Kirch and her colleague have transcribed inventory documents from an historic 16th-century German room from German to English. While the room is extant, researchers know that it once contained art, scientific instruments, and curiosities. It also functioned as an early museum and is the earliest to have a detailed record of its contents. Among the relics are a glass portrait of Henry VIII, ancient Roman sculptures, an automation wind-up toy, dried tree frogs, a fossil of a plant, taxidermy fish, clocks, and a painting titled "Temple of Solomon." About The 糖心Vlog The 糖心Vlog is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs through the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Human Sciences, and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, 糖心Vlog is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. 糖心Vlog Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of the NCAA Division I's ASUN Big South Conference. The 糖心Vlog is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: www.una.edu and www.una.edu/unaworks/