Serena Plage 
Over commencement weekend graduating seniors gathered with their families and faculty in Zilkha Gallery for the Honors Theses Showcase. This was a celebration of the work of the Class of 2023 thesis students from the Department of Art and Art History. Each Art Studio senior was invited to select a single work from their thesis exhibition for this curated showcase of drawing, … Read more
The Art History Program is pleased to announce Art History majorEmma Kendall ’24 will be awarded the James E. Lieber Internship Fund to help support her summer work with the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Established in 2019 by James E. Lieber ’84, and awarded by the Art History Program, the Lieber Art History Internship Fund … Read more
We would like to congratulate Art History major Valerie Gottridge on securing a Peter A. Krueger Internship at The Cooper Hewitt Museum. Valerie will be working with the curatorial team in the Department of Product Design and Decorative Arts, which houses 39,000 objects from antiquity to the 21st century. As they develop a new exhibition … Read more
The Art History Program is pleased to announce four Art History majors will be receiving the John T. Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship, which is awarded yearly to members of the junior class. Olivia Andrews, Bailey Chapin, Emma Flaherty and Sabrina Tian The purpose of the fellowship is to fund research related to an honors thesis … Read more
Art History Majors Gabby Farina ’23, Sarah Hale ’23 and Mim Pomerantz ’23 recently presented their Senior Talks in the History of Art. They were also joined by University Major Heddy Parker who presented her talk on the development and redevelopment in San Francisco’s Fillmore / Western Addition. This was the students final public presentation … Read more
We are excited to announce that Art History Major Sophie Raiskin-Wood ’25 has been accepted into the Smithsonian Because of Her Story Internship Program. This admired program aims to provide interns with the platform to share a diversity of women’s voices from the past and present and empower and inspire people from all walks of … Read more
2023 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium On April 16, 2023, Junior Emma Flaherty participated in the SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium. This multi-day virtual event features the work of a hundred talented undergraduate students from institutions across the globe. Emma presented her paper from Professor Aksamija’s class ARHA 325, Eloquent Forms: … Read more
SARAH HALE ’23 & YIWEN HUANG ’23 The Art History Program is proud to announce that seniors Sarah Hale and Yiwen Huang have been elected into Wesleyan University’s Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 2023. They will be honored at an induction ceremony on Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. in the Memorial … Read more
Understanding China in the Age of the Unequal Treaties Around November, I was offered the exciting opportunity to curate a show for the College of East Asian Studies. The result was the exhibition, “Understanding China in the Age of Unequal Treaties” which is currently in the CEAS gallery. All works included are from the College … Read more