The Art History Program is proud to announce that our senior majors Adrian Peoples and Lucy Schwalbe (photos below) have been elected to Wesleyan University’s Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2026. Congratulations, Adrian and Lucy! In total, 77 seniors have been elected in Spring 2026. They will be honored at an induction ceremony on … Read more
Featured image above: The field trip participants (seated) with senior curator Melanie Bourbeau Five of our art history majors and minors visited the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT on February 27 to view a special exhibit The Great Wave: Japonisme at Hill-Stead and tour the historic Pope Riddle House. Check back for more photos and a … Read more
Featured photo above: Lucy Schwalbe with Olga de Amaral’s textile works (Rewritten from a first-person account by Lucy Schwalbe. All photos provided by Schwalbe.) With support from the John T. Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship, Lucy Schwalbe ’26 visited Bogotá, Colombia in the summer of 2025 to pursue her senior thesis on Colombian textile artist Olga … Read more
Featured image: The students of ARHA 311: The Body in Medieval Art with Melanie Holcomb (sixth from left) in front of a twelfth-century Spanish fresco of a camel. Written by Nell Brayton ’27 On Friday, February 20, our class, a seminar on The Body in Medieval Art (ARHA 311) taught by Professor Joseph Ackley, journeyed … Read more