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
(All photos by Valerie Gottridge) The Art History Majors Committee recently organized a field trip to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford to view a collection of rarely seen European drawings and attend a public lecture. According to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, it has acquired a diverse group of nearly 1,250 … Read more
Featured photo (above): Student Vansh Kapoor ’26 (back row, second from right) and Gordon Career Center Associate Director Pam Grande (front row, fifth from right) with participants outside the Whitney Museum of American Art. (photo provided by Pam Grande) An Art Immersion Career Trek in New York City two months ago gave student Vansh Kapoor … Read more
Taking a short break from their busy schedules, art history majors and minors bonded with faculty over a festive lunch on December 6, Friday, to celebrate the end of the semester and the upcoming holiday season. The annual Art History Holiday Lunch is “always one of my favorite events”, said the Majors Committee Co-chair Daniel … Read more
Working with wood, egg, and earth, our art history and art studio students had an exciting opportunity to join an internationally renowned artist on an art installation on campus earlier this fall. Through a curatorial practicum offered by the Art History Program, 22 students attended a welcome and organizational meeting with the artist, Bright Ugochukwu … Read more