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.

Events

 A mixed-media assemblage with layered red-tinted photographs, including African masks, sculptures, and archival images, arranged on a background printed with repeating black-and-white circular motifs. These motifs alternate between skulls wrapped in patterned cloth and portraits of a family framed by laurel leaves, with the phrase “Owu Sɛ Fie” repeated across the fabric ground. The central collage glows in deep red, contrasting sharply with the neutral beige and black patterned border.

Artist Lyle Ashton Harris will give a lecture which will explore the intersections between his practice in photography and collage, examining ideas of gender, sexuality, and belonging.

This event is open to the public.

Installation view of three abstract paintings and one abstract sculpture

Christopher Rothko speaks about his father, artist Mark Rothko’s work and the family’s caretaking of his legacy on the occasion of a special opportunity to view two early Rothkos side-by-side at the Loeb Art Center this year. 

Free and open to the public