Art History

Conghao Tian ’19, will exhibit his paintings, Symbol of Eternity: The Monumental Landscape,  October 5-11, 2018 at the Mid-Hudson Heritage Center.

Opening Reception, October 5th 4-7

Congratulations! Miranda Fey Whitus and her project, Tracing the Lineage of Historic Families of the Hudson Valley Through Collection Materials, is a 2017 McHenry Award winner in the Historic Preservation category for her proposal for Montgomery Place.

The Advisory Committee selected Miranda Fey Whitus because of her exceptional leadership abilities and the quality of the project that she is going to work on.

Gilda Gross ’16 has been accepted to the Masters Program in Historic Preservation in the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
For more information:  CU Masters Program

Congratulations Gilda!

Stefan Hirsch Painting “The Builder at Work”, unknown photographer, 1931-32

Precisely Not: Works from the Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo Collection

curated by John Ohrenberger ’16

September 17-October 29, 2015
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 29, 4-6 pm

Charles P. Stevenson Library
Vitrine Displays

Hallie Nolan, Class of 2015,

has been accepted into Washington University’s  Masters of Architecture 3+ program.

Congratulations Hallie!

Michaela at Alvaro Siza’s Piscinas das Marés, Portugal for her senior project.

 Michaela Friedberg ’15 will start a three-year, professional degree in architecture at Princeton University, which has offered her a Fellowship, along with a stipend, in Humanities and Social Sciences.

CONGRATULATIONS MICHAELA!

The Alexander Klebanoff Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Art History senior project was awarded to Patricia Manos.  Her project, “Strong in Our Weakness:” Yael Batana’s Strategies for Living with Ghosts (Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum) demonstrated extensive scholarship and daring originality in the area of modern art in the class of 2012.  The project is a study of the Israeli-Dutch artist Yael Bartana’s video trilogy “…and Europe will be Stunned,” which was completed for the 2011 Venice Biennale. Yael Batana was the first non-Polish artist chosen to represent Poland at its national pavilion.

Art History major Christopher Richards ’12 won two of the most prestigious awards at Bard College for his senior project titled The Age of Tears: Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross and its Lachrymose Contexts (Adviser, Susan Merriam).  Christopher received the  Cristina Duarte Prize for Medieval Literature and the Wilton Moore Lockwood Prize for Best Critical Senior Project. Congratulations to Christopher on this spectacular achievement!

The Jean M. French Travel Award was established in 2011 to assist second semester juniors in researching their senior project.  Money for this award was generously donated by Bard art history alumni in honor of Prof. Jean M. French, who retired in 2011.  It was her wish that juniors could use the summer before their senior year to do valuable research at archives, libraries and locations both in the United States and abroad.  The first of what will be an annual award went to Sebastian Sarmiento-Moreno. Sebastian will travel to Paris this summer to conduct artist interviews.   His senior project will deal with Latin American kinetic art.

On Thursday, May 19th, art history seniors presented their projects to their peers and faculty and then participated in a celebratory dinner.

Here is the Program, please enjoy!