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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 2010. He also is contributor and co-editor (w/Alyson Gill, Arkansas State) of a Special Issue of the journal Visual Resources: The International Journal of Documentation (Taylor & Francis/Routledge, Dec. 2009) concerning digital models, and co-editor (w/ Charles Rosenburg, Notre-Dame) of an issue of The Medal (British Museum, Spring 2010).
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. He is also co-founder and co-director (w/ Steve Bailey, Music) of the recent Digital Jazz Manuscript Archive, which, among other things, publishes hand written works by masters such as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock online.
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 J. Paul Getty Research Institute, multiple grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and additional grants from Coastal Carolina University.
Flaten regularly teaches study abroad programs, including trips to Northern Spain, Italy, Greece, Northern Europe, and to Oxford and London in summer 2010. 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 and Associate Dean 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.