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
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
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
Art History honors candidates recently presented the spring installment of their senior colloquium. This is a critical time for our seniors to receive feedback and guidance from their peers and faculty as they move to finalize their theses. Gabby Farina ’23 “Imagining The Alhambra: Gender, Ornament, and Representational Space“ Since the fall colloquium, my thesis … Read more
John T. Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship “Using funds from the John T. Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship, I traveled to New York and the Boston area to conduct research in person at the Morgan Library, the New York Public Library’s Spencer Collection, Wellesley Library, and Harvard’s Houghton Library. Over the course of one week, I viewed … Read more
Paoletti Travel Research Fellowship, 2022 “With the help of the John T. Paoletti Travel Fellowship, I spent two weeks this summer traveling in Spain and conducting research for my senior thesis. Centered around experiential accounts of the architecture of al-Andalus, my thesis aims to investigate the construction of monument, gender, and memory in al-Andalus and … Read more