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Art Department

Art Department

Art Department

The department offers majors or correlates in Art History and Studio Art, as well as a track in architecture. Enriched by a comprehensive college art museum, both majors culminate in a one-semester senior thesis or independent studio project.

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“Teaching Between Worlds”

Studio Art faculty Gordon Hall participates in a wide-ranging conversation for Art Papers about teaching with art faculty from Rhode Island School of Design, UCLA, Yale, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Vassar’s Newest Professors Hail from Burbank to Bulgaria

Vassar welcomes 15 new tenure-track faculty members—the largest cohort in more than 20 years—to the campus this fall.

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Countering Injustice

Vassar has made an ongoing effort to acknowledge the displacement of Native peoples from the land where the campus has been built and to build relationships with those Native nations today. The College recently hosted a visit by the Tribal Liaison from the Stockbridge-Munsee, whose ancestors were forcibly moved from the land.

Lev Winickoff ’25 Receives 2024 Barnabas McHenry Award

Lev Winickoff ’25 received a 2024 Barnabas McHenry Award to create a video project in collaboration with members of the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans. The video will document a Munsee story told by an elder (in English) with contributions by children in the tribe (in Mohican) and incorporate paintings reflecting the natural beauty of the Hudson River Valley along with Munsee symbolism.

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Olmsted Conference at Vassar Explores the Benefits of Beautiful Landscapes

A recent conference paid tribute to the vision of renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and focused on the benefits of living and working in a beautiful natural setting. Conference attendees spent a full day on the lush Vassar campus.

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New Faculty Members Hit the Ground Running

Vassar welcomed 14 new scholar-teachers to the College’s tenure-track faculty for the 2023-24 academic year.

Harry Roseman, Isabelle Hyman Emeritus Professor of Art, has had his work accepted into the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (VAEFF)

Harry Roseman’s video Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, Guangzhou, China, was accepted into the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (VAEFF), and is a semi-finalist for numerous other festivals. His work is based on approximately 3,500 photographs of his travel in China as well as about 30 hours of sound.

Professor of Art Lisa Collins publishes Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt

Lisa Gail Collins, Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair and Director of Vassar’s American Studies Program, is author of Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt, a thickly layered story of a work-clothes quilt made in mourning and the memory of its making.

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Late Art Professor’s Work Lives on in Reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral

Architects responsible for restoring Notre-Dame of Paris recently talked about their efforts to rebuild the cathedral after the devastating fire and how research by the late Professor Andrew Tallon has aided their efforts.