My name is Heidi Hornik. I teach in the
Department of Art and Art History at Baylor University,
and I've been here for 29 years.
Professors are most inspired when their
research makes it into the classroom.
I'm actually teaching this semester an
upper-division seminar on Florentine painter Tosini.
I worked in the archives, found his last will and testament, put his life together,
[and] wrote the first book on him.
After class today, three or four students just wanted to hear more about it.
Scholarly research for undergraduates is
exactly motivated by those kind of classes.
The Armstrong Browning has a group of
old master paintings that came from the
Crest Collection. Bob Manning, who was one
of the leaders of the Crest Collection
and a Baylor alum, made sure that Baylor
got some of these Crest pictures when he
had the influence in Washington, D.C.
So I wanted to have a class for many, many years just focusing on those paintings.
Last semester, actually, I had a student who was working at a 17th-century Guercino in Armstrong Browning.
She is now being cited in the latest and most complete catalogue of the works attributed to Guercino --
and she's an undergraduate, and she's in this major work by the former director of the Getty.
My main focus is enhancing the undergraduate research & teaching. I think that has a lot of hidden potential here.
When they look at Illuminate and
see that's one of the pillars, there's a
lot of students ready and willing to be
involved in that -- so that's very exciting, too.
