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Prof. Stokstad Enriches Her Teaching With Travel
By Patti Behen
A checklist may be a guidepost plan for Christmas shopping, wedding invitations or a trip to the supermarket.
The last item on the checklist kept by Marilyn Stokstad, associate professor of art history and acting director of the art museum, is more unusual, however, than gloves for Aunt Harriet or a jar of peanut butter.
It is the Bayeux Tapestry, dating from the eleventh century and preserved in Bayeux, France.
NO. SHE DOESN'T want to buy it, but she would like to get a look at it.
"I try to see everything I lecture on," Prof. Stokstad said. "I often find things such a surprise."
Prof. Stokstad said she keeps a long list of the art pieces she wishes to see, and each year she checks off a few more.
PROF. STOKSTAD spends her summers traveling, doing research and writing articles. She said a teacher should feel an obligation to
keep on learning, even while he teaches.
"If you spend your whole life giving lectures," she said, "you're not much of a teacher. A teacher must always keep learning."
She said just as a student is expected to do more than "just sit in class and vegetate," the teacher must be willing to contribute too.
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"I was required to take an art history course in college and liked it" she said, "so I took another and liked it even better. But I didn't decide until my senior year, when I took a major in art history and painting."
Prof. Stokstad also studied one year at the University of Oslo, Norway, under a Fulbright grant, and another year in Spain with an American Association of University Women Fellowship.
ASKED HOW SHE decided on art history as a major field, Prof. Stok-stad said it was "quite by accident."
Prof. Stokstad came to KU as a full-time art history teacher in 1958. Last year she took over as acting director of the art museum and says she would not care to go back to straight teaching.
Prof. Stokstad said medieval architecture is her main interest, particularly Santiago de Compostelo, a cathedral in northwestern Spain. She visits the cathedral nearly every summer to continue her research and writing.
"THIS IS JUST too much fun," she said, smiling.
She said permission was granted ten years ago to excavate below the cathedral, now a national monument.
"WHEN I GO back each summer, I observe some more of the work being done on the cathedral," she said. "One of the original walls of the city was discovered and several fifth century graves have been found, probably not Christian."
She said her life's ambition is to finish her writing this summer. She is writing on Master Matthew, head sculptor of the twelfth century Santiago de Compostelo.
"But I haven't yet decided whether it will be a long article or a book," she laughed.
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