by Kendall Curlee | Jun 11, 2018 | Architectural Studies, Art History, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Honors Passport/Pilgrimage
Architecture major Anna Ibru, from Lagos, Nigeria, visited Europe for the first time while participating in Honors Passport: Pilgrimage. Thanks to her training in Fay Jones School of Architecture, she proved to be among the most adept in reading subtle differences in...
by Kendall Curlee | Dec 15, 2017 | Art History, Events
Jackson Williams is an honors international studies and political science major who also happens to love art – he just added an art history minor to the mix. Jackson came to us with the idea of a pop up art show culminating in a panel discussion with artists, curators...
by Nathan Smith | Oct 10, 2017 | Art History, Art History, Internships, Marketing
Alexis Meldrum, an honors art history major and marketing minor from Carrollton, Texas, was the first Havner curatorial intern for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Her months of sifting through Buckminster Fuller’s design papers helped shape the interpretive...
by Nathan Smith | Jan 10, 2017 | Art History, Art History, English, Honors College Study Abroad Grant, Honors Courses, Honors Passport/Peru, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
The students participating in Honors Passport: Peru were introduced to the Cusco School of painters in H2P3, the third and final course in the Honors Humanities Program (H2P) sequence. The Cusco School, one of the most important painting movements in the Americas,...
by Nathan Smith | Jan 9, 2017 | Art History, Art History, Biology, Honors College Study Abroad Grant, Honors Courses, Honors Passport/Peru, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
The Spanish built their churches on the massive stone foundations of the Inca they conquered, but craftsmen took care to blend Andean and Incan themes into the usual Christian symbols. In this excerpt from her Peru journal, honors biology major Rashi Ghosh reflects on...
by Nathan Smith | Sep 17, 2016 | 5 Questions, Art History, Art History, Honors College International Research Grant, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
Clio Rom, an honors art history junior with minors in Italian and gender studies, is studying the different ways that male and female artists depicted women for her honors thesis, titled “Sitting Pretty: The Depiction of Women and Women’s Fashion in Renaissance and...
