Art and Art History

Please join us Wednesday, February 1, at noon in duPont Gallery for a talk by artist Allison Long-Hardy in conjunction with her exhibition, Crowded Spaces.  

Leigh Anne Chambers Painter Director, Rawls Museum Arts Courtland, Virginia Lecture: “Finding Form in The Formless” Thursday, January 26 7:00 p.m. Melchers 107 Reception Follows Ms. Chambers’s visit is part of ARTS 470: Special Studies in Painting and is presented through support of the Visiting Artists and Speakers Committee of the Department of Art and [...]

The LAST of the Digi Info Sessions for this semester is TODAY at 4pm!

Art Chair Competition All art students (studio and art history) are encouraged to participate. Here are the rules: Claim one of the designated chairs (labeled ART CHAIR #1, etc.). Chairs are located on the Melchers (second floor). You can paint, collage, or alter the surface appearance of the chair but you cannot physically deconstruct and [...]

Marjorie Och has published the article, “Vittoria Colonna in Giorgio Vasari’s ‘Life of Properzia de’ Rossi’ ” in  Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy:  Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage, edited by Katherine Mciver (Ashgate 2012). Italian, Medal of Vittoria Colonna, sixteenth century.  Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of [...]

Leigh Anne Chambers Painter Director, Rawls Museum Arts Courtland, Virginia Lecture: “Finding Form in The Formless” Thursday, January 26 7:00 p.m. Melchers 107 Reception Follows Ms. Chambers’s visit is part of ARTS 470: Special Studies in Painting and is presented through support of the Visiting Artists and Speakers Committee of the Department of Art and [...]

Last semester’s YELLOW lab pass is still valid- if you have one, you do not need a new one.  Get in the lab and get to work! If you do not have a lab pass and would like to use the lab this semester, please attend one of the following 10 minute info-sessions: Monday, Jan [...]

As classes begin, don’t forget about these upcoming important dates! 19     5-7 pm Reception: Allison Long-Hardy, Crowded Spaces, duPont Gallery 19     5-7pm Reception: Mid-Atlantic New Painting 2012, Ridderhof Martin Gallery 20     5pm Honors in Art History and Studio Art applications (for May graduates only) due to Chair 26     [...]

We’ve been getting the place ready for you…please join us! The members of Professor Och’s ARTH 470Z:  Seminar:  Venice, cordially invite you to Venice III, an online exhibit.  We open Wednesday, December 14, at 12 noon in Melchers 209.  Drop by Melchers 209 any time between 12 noon and 2:30 or visit our exhibit LIVE [...]