Lieber Art History Internship Fund Recipient Announced!

The Art History Program is pleased to announce Art History majorEmma Kendall ’24 will be awarded the James E. Lieber Internship Fund to help support her summer work with the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Established in 2019 by James E. Lieber ’84, and awarded by the Art History Program, the Lieber Art History Internship Fund … Read more

VALERIE GOTTRIDGE ’25

We would like to congratulate Art History major Valerie Gottridge on securing a Peter A. Krueger Internship at The Cooper Hewitt Museum. Valerie will be working with the curatorial team in the Department of Product Design and Decorative Arts, which houses 39,000 objects from antiquity to the 21st century. As they develop a new exhibition … Read more

Senior Talks – 04.27.23

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

Honors Theses Spring Colloquium – 02.27.23

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

SARAH HALE ’23

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

Welcome to Student Spotlight!

Welcome to the Art History Program’s new blog – Student Spotlight! This is a platform to share art history news, celebrate the achievements of our students past and present and stay connected! Feel free to reach out and share your updates to: splage@wesleyan.edu. We can’t wait to share the spotlight with you!