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Professor Dawn Ades from the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex, and Founding Director of ESCALA, has received a CBE for services to higher education and art history in the New Year’s Honours List.

ESCALA has lent Juan Carlos Stekelman's Mujer saludando to the exhibition Juan Carlos Stekelman: Early Works (1965-1975) at the Frankendael Foundation in Amsterdam.

Professor Valerie Fraser, from the School of Philosophy and Art History (SPAH), has retired after 32 years at the University of Essex.

Dr Rebecca Breen, a specialist in contemporary Latin American art, has joined the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex.

Over 17,000 people have visited ESCALA's inaugural exhibition Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile since firstsite opened 25 September 2011. The selection, from the ESCALA Collection, focuses on the works of thirteen printmakers from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

The dates for ESCALA's first exhibition, Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile, at firstsite in Colchester have been extended until Sunday 12 February 2012.