Nov 27, 2018 | From the Chair, Giving
This has been a big year for the Art Department! Enrollment continues to increase with 2,519 undergraduate students this year compared to 1,808 students back in 2013. Professors Yeohyun Ahn in Graphic Design and Tomiko Jones in Photography joined the faculty along...
Nov 26, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
I have been thinking about the link between art and literature lately, mostly that it seems to have gone missing, or at least seems less prevalent than in other generations of art practice. The origins of ideas, the points of tangency of those ideas, and their...
Nov 19, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
A recent article in New Yorker Magazine by Claudia Roth Pierpont recounts how a small group of women painters crashed the canvas ceiling as part of the historic Ninth Street Show, held amongst the cheap industrial spaces of downtown New York in 1951. The jury for the...
Nov 12, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
The Findhorn Foundation, in northeast Scotland on the Moray Firth coast, is home to one of the oldest intentional communities in the world. Located between Inverness and Aberdeen, Findhorn evolved from a small experiment in communal and spiritual living in 1962 to be...
Nov 5, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
Art does not speak for itself. Actions don’t necessarily speak for themselves. Both require context and prior knowledge of the histories in which they are formed to fully resonate. Art that intends to implore a political consciousness has an especially elevated...
Oct 29, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair
Art is a wound turned into light.-Georges Braque As we continue to face a seemingly endless string of traumatic events, I sense that the role the arts can play in healing becomes an even more pertinent question. Last month I was walking in New York City and found...
