Education, Museums, Arts & Recreation Internship Spotlights
Students discuss their summer internship experiences with Hershey Entertainment & Resorts, Penn Museum, Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum and the Highland Support Project.
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.
Jobs
Graduate Schools
Warith Taha is a visual artist from Oakland, Calif. Working primarily through the medium of painting, Warith creates work that addresses his Black queer relationship to time, space and material.
"Art history is the ultimate liberal art. Through studying art, we are able to learn about history, politics, economics and trade, religion, culture, philosophy, languages, architecture, environmental studies, music and more! All of the art-history faculty have different concentrations, and the variety of courses in the major gives students exposure to diverse art forms spanning numerous continents and millennia. The faculty also have high expectations and push students to produce their best work."
—Xenia Makosky ’24
Students discuss their summer internship experiences with Hershey Entertainment & Resorts, Penn Museum, Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum and the Highland Support Project.
Fieldwork gives Dickinson its first accurate tree census in 13 years—and a map anyone can carry.
Dickinson students showcased summer 2026 experiences in law, vision research and studio art, connecting academic interests with real-world skills and career exploration.
From ecological art to democracy in movement and sound to the stories imprinted in American trees, there are plenty of intriguing and inspiring things to explore at Dickinson this fall.
Bucolic fields and barns are powerful learning spaces at the Dickinson College Farm. Students in any major can do hands-on lessons, research and internships, building skills for impactful careers.
Chelsea Parke Goles '19 shares how Dickinson's liberal-arts education helped prepare her to launch Parke, a growing apparel brand built on timeless essentials and community.