Art History • Sweet Briar College

Students view art at a museum

Lilly Lee and Damarys Rodrigues '24 at the Tate Gallery, London in Professor Morse-Jones’ study abroad class, 19th-Century European Art.

Art display

Sita Moses '23 prepares to host indigenous artifact critical analysis program in Pannell Gallery during the fall 2022 Valaria Tatera exhibition Justice.

Student and faculty look at art

Damarys Rodrigues ’24 serves as an intern for the Sweet Briar Galleries with Director of Galleries and Museum Clare van Loenen.

Students look at artwork

Students in The Medieval Book examine a piece from Sweet Briar’s art collection.

Student views art

Etaf Jumaa '26 studys the prints of Mahsa R Fard in the fall 2022 exhibition in Benedict Gallery.

Engage with the visual arts here on campus and around the globe through art history.

Art History

The art history program provides students with an understanding of art and architecture in their social, political, and cultural context.

Students will be introduced to the means by which art can be critically observed, intelligently analyzed and knowledgeably discussed. Inherently interdisciplinary, the study of art history involves the study of not just art and history, but also religion, philosophy, literature, music, anthropology, among others. Rooted in research, exploration of art history deepens academic skills that are fundamental to the liberal arts.


Art History Events

 

STAMMTISCH:an Arts-Wide lunch meeting forallarts division majors and minors*(English and Creative Writing, Studio Art, Art History, Theatre, Dance, Music, Arts Management) 

*all arts interested students welcome!

 

 

STAMMTISCH:an Arts-Wide lunch meeting forallarts division majors and minors*(English and Creative Writing, Studio Art, Art History, Theatre, Dance, Music, Arts Management) 

*all arts interested students welcome!

 

 

STAMMTISCH:an Arts-Wide lunch meeting forallarts division majors and minors*(English and Creative Writing, Studio Art, Art History, Theatre, Dance, Music, Arts Management) 

*all arts interested students welcome!

 

Recent News

Damarys Rodrigues '24 looks at artwork by Ana Maria Pacheco in the Sweet Briar collection, January 2024.

Sharing HERspective: Discovering Latino artists in the Sweet Briar art collection

How an internship in the Sweet Briar galleries inspired further research.

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Professor Tracy Chapman Hamilton presents Redrawing Boundaries: Documenting, Visualizing and Mapping Medieval Gender.

The paths of medieval women are the focus of recent Sweet Talks event

Researching and mapping medieval women artists and patrons.

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