Featured image above: Art History Majors Committee co-chairs Nell Brayton (back row, first from left) and Eva Gamboa (front row, first from left) with four of the participants. Photos by Eva Gamboa ’27 and Nell Brayton ’27 The elements paused for our art history students last Saturday, when they visited the Yale University Art Gallery … Read more
Graduation was sweeter for our art history majors and minors with a reception well attended by families, friends, and faculty members. The Art History Program hosted a reception during the Reunion and Commencement (R&C) weekend to celebrate our graduating seniors. Students’ families and friends enjoyed meeting and chatting with five faculty members from the program. … Read more
Featured image: Art history minor Rosa Tejada ’26 (second from right) with senior curator Melanie Bourbeau (first from left, standing) and art history majors (left to right) Vansh Kapoor ’26, Annie Hedgepeth ’26, Adrian Peoples ‘26, and Wenqi He ’27 at the Hill-Stead Museum. There is nothing like an enjoyable field trip to reinforce concepts … 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
(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
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 Eden Porter. All photos provided by Porter.) Eden Porter‘s first art history course at Wesleyan was intriguing, and she was blown away by how much her classmates already seemed to know about the fascinating content. Putting in effort to excel in her art history courses, Porter’s confidence and passion … 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
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