Three events organized by the Art History Majors Committee kept students meaningfully occupied in November and gave them a chance to explore more about their favorite field of study.
The open house at the Art History Commons on November 7 attracted numerous first-year students and sophomores interested in art history. Junior and senior majors including Adrian Peoples ’26, Annie Hedgepeth ’26, Oliver Brown ’26, Juliette Payot ’26, and Dinah Landsman ’27 enthusiastically shared their knowledge of the program and why they chose art history as their major.
An alumni panel organized in collaboration with the Gordon Career Center on November 14 invited two art history alumnae, Valerie Gottridge ’25 and Emma Flaherty ’24, to share their personal journeys in applying to graduate school. Gottridge is doing her master’s program at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and Flaherty is doing her PhD in early modern art at Princeton University.
The Davison Art Collection provided our majors, minors, and students enrolled in fall ’26 ARHA courses with a rare chance to look at 12 Latin American and South American artworks up close on November 20.
The viewing included Sleep (El Sueño), a 1932 lithograph created by Mexican painter Diego Rivera, and Make the Economy Scream, a copper box containing charcoal painting on plastic sheets, by Chilean born, New York-based artist María Verónica San Martín.
