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, senior Lucy Schwalbe ’26 visited Bogotá, Colombia in the summer of 2025 to pursue her senior thesis on Colombian textile artist … 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
Join us on Wednesday, March 4 for the Winter Colloquium of the Art History Program! Our four senior thesis writers will present their latest research in Boger 112. Lucy Schwalbe “Olga de Amaral: Social Fabrics” Adrian Peoples “Origin of Woman: Evolution of the French Renaissance Female Nude” Anne Hedgepeth “Melvin Edwards and the African/American Tradition: Memory, … Read more
(Featured photo above: Students attending the Art History Open House.) Events organized by the Art History Majors Committee in November gave students a chance to explore their favorite field of study, including taking a close look at rarely displayed artworks. In addition, two of our very own art history graduates, Valerie Gottridge ’25 and Emma Flaherty ’24, connected with … Read more
Featured photo above: (Back row) Ray Huang (third from right), Kellyn Guzman (second from right) and eight other students joined the tour led by the Glass House educator Dr. Sarah Churchill (front row, first from left). Tucked away in a town near the state line where Connecticut meets New York is an iconic structure where modern … Read more
The Art History Majors Committee has organized two Friday events in November and all are welcome! First-year students and sophomores interested in art history will get to meet some of our majors at the noontime Open House in the Art History Commons on November 7 and find out more about the program. Students considering graduate … Read more
(Rewritten from a first-person account by Maggie Leeming. All photos provided by Leeming.) The halls of the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires (MALBA) beckoned in the fall of 2024, when Maggie Leeming ’26 did her study abroad program. Drawn by the museum’s unique position in the world of modern Latin American art and its impressive collection, Leeming found herself visiting MALBA more often than any other museums in the … Read more
(Featured photo: Art History Majors Committee co-chairs Annie Hedgepeth (left) and Adrian Peoples checking out the new table and reading chairs in the Art History Commons.) Welcome back, art history majors and minors! We hope your first weeks of school have gone well. As you charge ahead with your studies in the fall semester, take … Read more
It’s in the bag! The Art History Majors Committee wrapped up the year on a sweet note with the distribution of custom-made merch for our majors. The mood was a relaxed one at the Art History Commons on the evening of Thursday, May 15, as art history majors found the perfect reason to step away … Read more
Article and photos by Joseph Ackley Since early December, visitors to Olin Library have had the opportunity to view Medieval Manuscripts in Facsimile, an exhibition researched and organized by the Fall 2024 seminar students of ARHA 312: Medieval Manuscripts, taught by Professor Joseph Ackley. Decorated manuscripts, which rank among the most sophisticated works of medieval … Read more