Art stands at the intersection of culture, politics, religion and philosophy, making it an ideal place from which to understand the liberal arts and the world at large. At Dickinson, the Department of Art & Art History offers students two tracks for study: studio art and art history. Both concentrations foster rigorous, critical investigation through active processes of learning in which students connect historical discourse with an engagement of art from multiple contemporary perspectives.

The senior year capstone experience allows studio and art history majors to pursue intensive, original research in their respective concentrations. Senior studio majors, benefiting from individual studio spaces, each create a body of work for an exhibition in The Trout Gallery accompanied by a museum catalog they create. Senior art history majors undertake advanced scholarly research in co-curating and producing a published museum catalog for an exhibition in the Trout Gallery drawn from works in the college's permanent collection or from work lent by established galleries and museums.

Contact Info

Chair:
Ward Davenny
Professor of Art
davenny@dickinson.edu

Department Coordinator:
Michele Karper
karperm@dickinson.edu

Phone:
717-254-8705
Fax:
717-245-1937

Location:
Rm. 226 , Weiss Center for the Arts
Mailing Address


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Jobs

  • One River School of Art + Design  
  • American Folk Art Museum 
  • New York Public Library 
  • Children’s Museum of New York 
  • The Pennsylvania State University 
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art 
  • National Gallery of Art  
  • National Museum of American History 
  • Michener Museum of Art 
  • Barnes Foundation 
  • Museum of Modern Art 
  • Sotheby's  

Graduate Schools

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
  • Cranbrook, Academy of Art 
  • SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) 
  • University College of London, Slade School of Fine Art 
  • Virginia Commonwealth University 
  • New York University, School of Law 
  • McGill University 
  • University of Toronto 
  • Yale University 
  • Harvard University 
  • Rhode Island School of Design 
  • Boston University 
  • MICA (Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art) 
  • PAFA (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) 
  • University of Delaware 
  • UPenn 
  • Temple University 
  • The Courtauld 
  • University of Maryland, College Park 

  • Atlantic Records 
  • The Biscuit Factory 
  • New York Arts Practicum 
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art 
  • Whitney Museum of Art 
  • Philadelphia Fabric Workshop and Museum  
  • Princeton University Art Museum 
  • Wadsworth Athenaeum 
  • Philadelphia Mural Arts 
  • State Museum of Harrisburg  
  • Brandywine River Museum of Art 
  • Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. 
  • Christie’s  

 


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"It is one thing to write a paper for a professor, but writing knowing that your work will be published and read is an entirely new kind of pressure. That said, the seminar remains the most consistently engaging class I have ever taken. While a large portion of the work was original research, that research was then condensed and clarified into wall labels, introductions, and brochures for general reference. We learned how to render information accessible to a diverse audience, a skill which translates into any number of fields post-graduation."

- Fiona Clarke ’19


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Artist In Residence

This exhibition features work by Will Preman, the 2019 studio-art artist-in-residence. A multidisciplinary artist currently working in Philadelphia. Preman earned a BFA in ceramics and art history from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 and an MFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

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Ceramicist Will Preman’s Artistic Residency at Dickinson College Informs, Inspires

Students work side by side with Philadelphia artist Will Preman through the Sylvia Smith Visiting Artists program.

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Dickinson College to Host Artist-in-Residence, Ceramicist Will Preman

Philadelphia-based artist Will Preman will serve as the 2019-20 Sylvia J. Smith ’73 Artist-in-Residence at Dickinson, give a lecture Wednesday, Oct. 16, and return for an artist's talk Nov. 6.

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Creating Environmental Policy

Former fine arts major Stanley "Paige" Zeigler ’71 was elected to the Maine House of Representatives, where he creates legislation to save the environment.

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Science, Math, Technology and ... Art? Skimming the Fourth Dimension With Linda Henderson '69

Linda Dalrymple Henderson '69 is a major figure in art history, specializing in the intersections between math, science, technology and the occult.

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Dickinson College Concert, Video and Exhibition Explore Water Conservation in Innovative Ways

Combining the talents of Dickinson’s music and art faculty, Current reveals the history and consequences of the ways we've interacted with a vital natural resource, and of its interactions with us.

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Dickinson College Alumna Presents Lecture on Abstract Art Pioneer

Art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson '69 will deliver a lecture about Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter known for innovative theories and abstract art.

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