
Near at Hand: A Second Look
Have you checked out the 2025 Senior Art History Methods exhibition yet? Here’s a closer look at this unique showcase of student research and faculty work.
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.
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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
Have you checked out the 2025 Senior Art History Methods exhibition yet? Here’s a closer look at this unique showcase of student research and faculty work.
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions leader holds career sessions and office hours with students, providing vital insights into the evolving landscape of technology and business.
A study-abroad year in Italy inspired Eric Denker '75’s remarkable career at the National Gallery. His passion for art has touched countless lives and paved paths for future art historians.
Humanities and science students recently visited Dickinson's "cadaver room" together. Their aim: To learn a memorable lesson about connections between science and art.
Art history majors chose a dizzying array of objects—from Neolithic tool fragments to Warhol prints—to show side by side with faculty artworks. Their pairings create fresh new takes on faculty art.
Professor of Art History Melinda Schlitt finds a "cosmos of culture" in art, and she strives to ensure that her students experience it too.