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 one-semester 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. Art 102-103 (Drawing I), the introductory studio course, opens the way for students with a range of drawing experience to advanced classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, color, computer animation and video. An architecture sequence of introductory, intermediate, and advanced drawing and design classes is also offered.

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
Professor of Art and Director of American Studies on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair
BA, Dartmouth College; PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
Caroline Culp Portrait - Woman with glasses standing in front of a garden
BA, Wake Forest University; MA, PhD, Stanford University
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
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; MFA, University of California-Los Angeles; MA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
Assistant Professor of Art
BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Portrait of a woman with glasses and a blue blazer smiling
BA, Beijing Normal University; MPhil, Leiden University; PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington
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
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
Visiting Instructor in Art
BA, Vassar College; MA, Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University (清华大学美术学院)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; MFA, Yale University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
BA, Bryn Mawr College; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
Woman with long golden brown hair smiling
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art; MFA, Yale University
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
BA, Princeton University; MA, PhD, Columbia University in the City of New York
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
BA, Vassar College; MFA, Yale University
The Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Lecturer in Art
BArch, BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; PhD, Harvard University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
BA, University of Maryland; MA, MPhil, PhD, CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Emeriti

Peter Charlap , MFA
Associate Professor Emeritus of Art (1979–2022)