Dr. Amy Kirschke Cause of Death: Dr. Amy Kirschke, died after a year-long courageous battle with brain cancer on Saturday, November 27, 2021, according to her GoFundMe. She is a professor, and chair at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, in the Department of Art and Art History. The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) announced her death on their official website according to UNCW she is a prolific scholar, student mentor, a long-time UNCW faculty member, and a recent department chair and a Professor Emerita in Art and Art History.
Please keep Amy’s friends and family in your thoughts. Grief support is available to students through the University Counseling Center and for faculty and staff through the Employee Assistance Program. There will be a public reception on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, in the UNCW Cultural Arts Building from 2-4 p.m., hosted by the Art and Art History department. In addition, her family has established the UNCW Dr. Amy Kirschke Scholarship in Art and Art History in her memory. UNCW concluded. Edward Irvine on a Facebook post said Dr. Amy Kirschke was one of the most influential colleagues he had the honor to work with. He described her as a prolific scholar, a fearless leader, and a close personal friend. He also added that she leaves behind a beautiful family and at least one generation of inspired students. There will never be another like her.
Amy spent 24 years as a professor, 15 of them as faculty and later chair of UNCW’s Art and Art History Department. She loved everything about being a professor, and her deep passion for teaching, mentorship, and research left a mark on so many. According to the GoFundMe account. She is author of Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance and Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance, both published by University Press of Mississippi; author of Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory, winner of the 2007 SECAC award for excellence in writing and research; and co-editor of Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the “Crisis,” and American History.
Evie K-s and 3 who organized a fundraiser in respect of Dr. Amy wrote in the GoFundMe account that it is hard to imagine a world without her, she was a supermom to her three daughters and a loving partner to her husband James. To donate click on GoFundMe
Dr. Amy’s obituary and memorial will be organized by the family