Faculty

Art
Department

vassar.edu/art

The department offers majors or correlates in art history and studio art. Enriched by a comprehensive college art museum, both majors culminate in a senior thesis or independent studio project. Art 105-106 (Introduction to the History of Art)—required for majors and encouraged for all Vassar students—opens with monuments of the ancient world and ends with today’s global video as professors in the department present their areas of special expertise. Upper level courses offer work in architectural and museum studies as well as art history and criticism. Academic credits may also be earned through study abroad and field work or internships in the New York museums, galleries, and auction houses.

In Studio Art, Art 107 (Studio Art Foundations: Approaches to Making), introduces core practices of contemporary art-making and opens the way for students with a range of art-making experience to advanced classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, video, architecture, and digital art. An architecture sequence of introductory, intermediate, and advanced drawing and design classes is also offered.

The courses in the catalogue for Art (ART) include courses for Art History and Studio Art.

The Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Lecturer in Art
Portrait of a person.
BArch, BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; PhD, Harvard University
Professor and Chair of Art on the Isabelle Hyman Professorship Chair
Tobias Armborst wearing a white collared shirt and dark gray jacket against a gray background.
MA, Harvard University
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, Bard College
Assistant Professor of Art
Head and shoulders portrait of a person with long hair and bangs outside with a grey v-neck jacket and black shirt.
BA, Colby College; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair
Lisa Gail Collins with dark, pulled-back hair, wearing a black shirt, standing in front of a bookshelf.
BA, Dartmouth College; PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Professor of Art on the Agnes Rindge Claflin Chair
Eve D’Ambra wearing a gray collared shirt against a light background.
BA, University of Arizona; MA, University of California-Los Angeles; PhD, Yale University
Professor of Art
Pictured: Yvonne Elet - A white woman with glasses in front of stone wall.
BS, Yale University; MA, PhD, New York University
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
BA, Wesleyan University; MFA, Bard College
Assistant Professor of Art
Gordon Hall wearing a blue shirt with a black background.
BA, Hampshire College; MFA, MA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Art
Headshot of John Hulsey.
BA, Harvard University; MA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3; MFA, University of California-Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Art
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Art
A man with dark glasses and gray hair sitting in front of a bookcase filled with vinyl records.
BA, New College of Florida; MA, Williams College; PhD, University of Delaware
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, Bard College
Professor of Art on the Mary Conover Mellon Chair
BA, Vassar College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University
Professor of Art
BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
BA, Duke University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
BA, Bryn Mawr College; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Assistant Professor of Art
A photo of Jonah Rowen, a person with short brown hair and a gray shirt.
MArch, Yale University; BA, Carnegie Mellon University; MPhil, PhD, Columbia University in the City of New York
Lecturer in Art
Woman with long golden brown hair smiling
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art; MFA, Yale University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Portrait of a person with long brown hair and a black sweater.
MA, Brigham Young University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Emeriti

Peter Charlap , MFA
Associate Professor Emeritus of Art (1979–2022)
Judith Linn , BFA
Adjunct Assistant Professor Emerita of Art (1998–2024)