Kenyon College Art History

All applications received by Sunday April 16th will be fully considered. Come work with engaged, creative students and supportive colleagues in central Ohio!

We are hiring! Our department is searching for an early modern art historian for a two-year, full-time Visiting Assistant Professor position. The job ad is available here careers.kenyon.edu/mob/cw/en-us/j…

Join Prof. Hostetler's class, ARHS 291 Museum Object, on Friday, October 14, at 2:10pm in the Bulmash Exhibition Hall in Chalmers Library to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "The Art of Devotion: Eastern Christian Icons from the Blick-Harris Study Collection"!

Alice will give a brief overview of her exhibition followed by plenty of time for close looking and questions. There will also be snacks and information about the next round of intern applications coming out this fall. All are welcome!

Join us today at 4:30 for the official opening of the newest exhibition from the Blick-Harris Study Collection titled Printed Worlds. The show was curated by our spring BHSC intern, Alice Riley ‘23, and is on view across from the Visual Resources Center in the Gund Gallery.

We are searching for a new colleague who specializes in either 19th- or 20th-c art (geographic area of specialty open) for a 2-year VAP position starting fall 2022. Please share widely! More information is available here careers.kenyon.edu/mob/cw/en-us/j…

Maya is indeed a classicist, Byzantinist, and Numismatist in the making! Her research is now accessible to all on Digital Kenyon

Had fun w/ guest lecture in Art History today! Shared my past work @artinstitutechi using Raman to find evidence of synthetic, not natural, dyes in 19th c prints by José Guadalupe Posada. In true LAC fashion, students surprisingly game for talk of orbitals & organic structures.

Congratulations to Professor Calvin on her new publication in @Journal18_ that examines French representations of the slave trade in Senegal during the late eighteenth century. You can read the entire article here: journal18.org/6160

We hope to see you tomorrow at 11:10!

Thompson is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign. She will discuss her participation in the events leading up to the Dec 2021 repatriation of a tenth-century sculpture of Lakshmi-Narayan from Dallas to its home in Patan, Nepal.

Join us for tomorrow’s talk/Q&A session with Erin Thompson @artcrimeprof who is Associate Professor of Art Crime at John Jay College (CUNY). She studies the damage to cultural heritage and communities through looting, theft, and deliberate destruction (and preservation) of art.

Do you have questions about how museums have addressed calls for the repatriation of art and cultural heritage? Join us next Thursday at 11 for a Q&A session with @artcrimeprof !

Museum Studies students examined how works from the permanent collection were installed and contextualized. They also considered questions related to the DIA’s public programs, audience engagement, and museum funding. We look forward to many more museum trips next academic year!

Students in the High Renaissance Art course visited the DIA’s current exhibition, By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800.

Some snapshots from our FANTASTIC field trip last Saturday to the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Kenyon students and faculty are welcome to join us for TWO practice talks by Ani Parnagian ‘23 and Maya Virdell ‘24 this afternoon at 4:10. Both have had papers accepted to undergraduate conferences and will present next weekend!

Thanks, too, to the Kenyon students, faculty, and community members who showed support at the opening! We look forward to supporting future interns’ original research on this collection.

Olivia’s research highlights the breadth of wing imagery and iconography among Christian objects from late antiquity to the 19th century.

Congratulations to our inaugural Blick-Harris Study Collection Curatorial Intern, Olivia Rataezyk ‘24, on the opening of her exhibition, Wings in Christian Art, last Friday!