School of Art Newsletter Fall 07 vol. 2 issue 1
Goddess of Roses: School of Art Professor Joanna Frueh Receives 2008 WCA Lifetime Achievement Award
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Professor of Practice: Joanna Frueh
Distinguished Almnus: Ann Fessler
Graduating Senior: Val Lehnerd
Correspondence: In Relation to Goya, Joseph Peragine
School of Art Assistant Director Appointed to Faculty
Professor of Practice: Joanna Frueh
Joanna Frueh is a Professor of Practice with the School of Art. She teaches a course in live performance art that encourages students to focus on concerns that deeply engage them, from the aesthetic to the social; the political to the sexual. Through a process of personal reflection and clarification, students learn to develop their own voice in order to drive their performances.
Frueh received her MA in General Studies in the Humanities and her PhD in History of Culture from the University of Chicago. Her work is characterized by rich, graphic, and lyrical language and imagery. In her performances, Frueh embraces high emotion as well as intellectual argument. Her photographs are primarily self-portraits; she utilizes her form, both nude and costumed, to reveal emotional depths and personal philosophy.
Frueh has taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is also the author of Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure (2006); Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love (2001); Erotic Faculties (1996), Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective (1989); and she is coeditor of Picturing the Modern Amazon (2000), Feminist Art Criticism: Art, Identity, Action (1994), and Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology (1991).
