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
Greetings to all our past, present, and future ARHA students! We would like to welcome you back to campus and extend a warm welcome to the class of 2027. We hope you all had a restorative and fun summer. Remember, if you would like to share any art history related experiences, we would love to … 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
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
Internship at the Florence Griswold Museum, Summer 2022 “This past summer, I had the privilege to work as a Curatorial Intern for Associate Curator Jennifer Stettler Parsons at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT. Since I aspire to be a curator at an art museum when I enter the professional world, working in … Read more