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R. Flaten, Ph.D. |
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Arne Flaten's research focuses on the Italian Renaissance, in particular the relationship between portraiture, medals, humanism, and the art market of the 15th century. More recently, his research has expanded to include Ancient Greece, digital reconstructions of Classical monuments, and virtual environments. His publications include articles, essays, book reviews, catalogue and encyclopedia entries in Word & Image, Oculus, the Chronicle for Higher Education, The Art Market in Italy, Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Encyclopedia of Sculpture, Renaissance Quarterly, the American Numismatic Society Magazine, and various exhibition catalogues and conference proceedings. His book, The Middeldorf Collection: Medals and Plaquettes 15th to 20th Centuries (Indiana University Press), is expected in 2008; he is also contributor and co-editor of two forthcoming volumes, one dealing with Italian Art and another concerning the integration of technology, research and pedagogy.
Flaten is the co-founder and co-director (with Paul Olsen, Graphic Design) of an innovative program at CCU called Ashes2Art which develops virtual reconstructions of ancient monuments; that project, in collaboration with Arkansas State University, recently received a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2007/08.
Professor Flaten has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Renaissance Society of America, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (which he declined), the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Research Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and various grants from Coastal Carolina University.
Recent seminars include Michelangelo, Portraiture: Republican Rome to Chuck Close, Art & Ideas: Methods, Criticism and Theory, and The Contemporary Graphic Novel. Flaten regularly teaches study abroad programs, including trips to Northern Spain, Italy, Greece, and Northern Europe. He was awarded an Excellence in Teaching distinction from the Pan-Hellenic Socitey at Virginia Tech, and received an Outstanding Teaching Award for the Edwards College of Humanities at Coastal Carolina in 2006.
Growing up in a diplomatic family, Dr. Flaten has had the opportunity to travel widely and to live in various parts of the world, including the Middle East, Central Africa, and Europe. He graduated from the American International School in Israel in 1985, then earned a B.A. with honors in Studio Art and English Literature at St. Olaf College in 1989 and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he bicycled from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv to take a one year position as varsity soccer coach and teacher of English and Art History at his former highschool. After two years designing marketing plans for General Mills, Inc in Minnesota, Flaten moved to Rwanda, Central Africa to teach for a year. He returned to the States to earn an M.A. (1996) and a Ph.D. in Art History from Indiana University-Bloomington (2001). In 2001 Flaten received a two year residential teaching and research fellowship at Sweet Briar College, and in 2002/03 was visiting assistant professor at Virginia Tech. He began work at Coastal Carolina University in 2003 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008.
Arne Flaten is married with three daughters. On weekends he sings lead vocals with the rock band Virtue Trap in the Myrtle Beach area.