Maureen Pelta, PhD

Chair, Art Education, Art History, Curatorial Studies, Liberal Arts, Professor

Craft & Culture: "Ornament Stories," conversation about jewelry with artist Emily Cobb, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 2012.
Chaired the Modrechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition, Moore College of Art & Design, 2012.
Presented a paper on the "Iconography of Renaissance Hunting Imagery," South Central Renaissance Conference, New Orleans, La, 2012.
Review of Katherine A. McIver’s Wives, Widows, Mistresses and Nuns in Early Modern Italy (Ashgate, 2012) will be published in the SECAC Review, Vol. XLV, no. 2 in October.
"Crafting Nature: Lewis Knauss", PMA Craft Show booklet, 2011.
Volunteer chair for the “Mordechai Anelewicz Creative Arts Competition on the Holocaust,” an annual competition for middle school and high school students that encourages artistic expression of lessons learned after studying the Holocaust, 2010.
Review of Correggio e L'Antico 2008, Published by ATSAH.
Correggio Among Ancients and Academicians: Mengs, Ratti and the Construction of 18th Century Art Criticism,” was accepted for the 9th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Congress in Genoa, Italy, May 2006.
If he, with his genius, had lived in Rome: “ Vasari and the Transformative Myth of Rome,” in Reading Vasari, ed. A. Barricault, A. Ladis and N. Land, London: The Georgia Museum of Art and Philip Wilson Publishers, September 2004