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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.

During Unravelling Threads, ESCALA is offering a promotion on its textile gifts. These include 20% off our limited artist editions by Jaime Giliand Florencia Guillen and 10% off our beautiful silk ties and scarves by Alex Gama.

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.

As well as supporting the development of ESCALA’s new website, Santander Universities has offered to sponsor the Collection with another £15,000 over three years from 2011 to 2013. This generous donation will support the Collection’s continued investment in a sustainable future as it develops plans to create a permanent home in the Hexagon building at the Colchester Campus. ESCALA hopes to develop the Hexagon for the University’s 50th anniversary in 2014.