The Pamela H. Simpson Professor of Art History is one of 10 editorial board members producing edited collections on Latinx art.
Franco will deliver a lecture titled “FERAL (Dance and Art Historical Method)” Sept. 22 in the Wilson Concert Hall.
Opening Sept. 18, the exhibit celebrates the work and legacy of the late professor of art emeritus and master Chinese brush painter I-Hsiung Ju.
The architect and artist, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial when she was 21, will give a lecture on Sept. 17 in Keller Theatre.
Zhang Xiaoli’s exhibit depicts imaginary worlds that blend traditional Chinese brushwork with playful, contemporary elements and pay homage to the enduring legacy of the late I-Hsiung Ju.
The exhibit, on view starting Sept. 2, celebrates 150 years of art stewardship at W&L.
The solo exhibition opens Sept. 4 and kicks off the gallery’s fall season.
Twenty-eight new faculty and staff members are joining the university this year.
This academic year’s lineup of exhibits and events will celebrate 150 years of art stewardship at W&L.
Johnson Enhancement Funds Open up Opportunities for W&L Johnson Scholars.
Richards, a strategic communication major, will be working at Rational 360 as a Public Relations Fellow.
Seniors Teresa Yoon, Cecelia Schweitzer and Juyoung Kim watched their team grow from seven players to a 20-plus-per-practice community.
Senior Ryan Doty reflects on his time at Washington and Lee and the experiences he’ll carry with him into his next chapter.
Álvarez looks forward to immersing herself in a different culture with the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship and will attend W&L Law when she returns, with plans to become an immigration lawyer.
The combined exhibition, featuring the work of artists Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, will open April 27, with an artist’s talk by Sobsey slated for May 13.
Prechel chose W&L for its high-level academics and the culture of the women's basketball program.
Newly promoted faculty members will present their research in a PechaKucha format on April 14.
The senior thesis exhibition will be on view from March 23 through April 10.
Adriana Greci Green’s March 31 talk will focus on Native regalia represented in Western American art.
The junior studio art and mathematics double major was one of five undergraduate students statewide to receive a $4,000 fellowship award.
The day-long symposium will take place on Feb. 12 and feature talks by faculty and community members.
The special volume explores ideas of race during the 19th century.
The solo exhibition will open Feb. 16, with an artist’s talk on March 5.
The Exchange connects the university community with free supplies while reducing waste.
The W&L network is perhaps most illustrative in the early-career assistance and opportunities our alumni provide to current students.
The Elmes Pathfinder Prize recognizes a student who has shown extraordinary promise in psychological science through outstanding scholarship in basic or applied psychology.
The former curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will serve a teaching and curatorial residency during Winter Term 2026.
Explore exhibitions and collections at the Art Museum and Galleries with select programming through May.
The solo exhibition will open Jan. 8, 2026, with an artist’s talk slated for Jan. 13.
A Spring Term Abroad class in Spain connected Moser with a piece of home.
Mahon will discuss the lived and created landscapes of American Surrealist Dorothea Tanning in her Nov. 4 lecture.
The experienced arts administrator joins Washington and Lee from Hollins University’s Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.
The interactive experience will be in Kamen Gallery at noon on Oct. 14 and is a part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
The professor of art was one of 47 photographers to display her work in the event’s main exhibit.
The professor of art was interviewed for an episode titled “The Dali Heist.”
The films will be screened Sept. 25-26 in the IQ Center, followed by an artist’s talk.
The curatorial fellow explores race in New York City through the artwork of George Luks.
Fosca Maddaloni-Yu will utilize the scholarship to participate in the trust’s study abroad trip to Japan.
The photography exhibition will run from Sept. 4 through Oct. 31, with a panel discussion on Oct. 22.
Andrea Lepage examines how academic galleries can serve as transformative learning spaces.
This academic year’s lineup of exhibits and events will explore the theme of “Materiality & Transformation.”
The solo exhibition will run from Sept. 4 through Oct. 17 and kicks off the gallery’s fall season.
The professor of art history will host a talk that reconsiders artist Frida Kahlo’s relationship with surrealism.
Andrea Lepage will assist in developing a series of essays focused on Latinx artists.
At the 2025 undergraduate Commencement, Barbara Jenkins ’92L, Kate Jenkins Howard ’99 and Kylie Therrien ’25 became the first female triple generation legacy at Washington and Lee University.
The professor of art history and director of the Mudd Center for Ethics offered her opinion on the nuances of the return of a Buddha sculpture by the Art Institute of Chicago to the Government of Nepal.
The exhibition will feature a live mural performance from April 28 to May 10, with an artist’s talk slated for May 12.
The senior thesis exhibition will be on view from March 24 through April 11.
Mariam Drammeh ’25 has approached research, internships and campus involvement with an eye toward a future rooted in service to others.
De Lissovoy will deliver a lecture on “Unpacking an Art Exhibit and Thinking Like Collage” on Jan. 27.
Newly promoted faculty members will present their research in a PechaKucha format on Jan. 28.
The Museums at W&L invite the public to explore its exhibitions and collections with select programming through May.
The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.
The interdisciplinary research project has been selected to participate in an open competition among medieval digital humanities projects for K-12 students.
Kernodle’s Nov. 15 lecture is supported by W&L’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
The W&L professor of art history attends conference exploring and celebrating Surrealism in Italy.
In this month’s episode, Kerin, professor of art history, discusses how following her curiosity of the ways in which people tell stories opened her to opportunities to study remote Buddhist shrines in the Himalayas and examine how we live and die as the director of the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics.
The exhibition, on view starting Oct. 2, celebrates women artists in overlooked genres.
George Bent, Sidney Gause Childress Professor in the Arts, has spent his career at W&L inspiring and being inspired by his students.
The Oct. 8 event is presented by Red Sky Performance and is part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
An authentic Indigenous dinner will accompany Laronde’s talk on Oct. 7 and is part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
Washington’s first indigenous State Poet Laureate will deliver a reading on Oct. 1 as part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
The public talk will take place in Kamen Gallery on Sept. 27 and is part of the Lenfest Center’s Outreach & Engagement Series.
The funds will support ‘Stephanie Shih: LONG TIME NO SEE (好久不見),’ an exhibition born out of the 2023 inaugural Artist-in-Residence program.
This academic year’s lineup of exhibits and events will highlight the university’s Reeves Museum of Ceramics and the Watson Galleries.
Summer Research Scholars are spending their summer helping to bring one of the world's oldest cities to life through modern technology.
The popular afternoon-drive radio segment referenced the Salvador Dalí expert’s impressions on the AI-generated Dalí voice at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Ryan Doty’s summer passion project explored his family lineage through poetry and photography.
Cole Gershkovich ’24 found his purpose studying spaces that foster belonging and empowerment among individuals with mental health challenges.
The W&L portion of the consortium will use the funding to support the ongoing digital humanities project ‘Florence As It Was.’
McKnight is proud to be graduating 101 years after her great-grandfather, who started their family’s legacy at W&L.
Hess will teach English in Austria and prepare for a career as an educator.
Elliott King offered his expertise on the authenticity of an AI-generated Dalí voice used for an exhibit at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Mathematics and economics major Kumar says an art history class opened up new avenues of learning.
The former executive director of ArtPower at the University of California, San Diego will begin his new role in July.
The senior thesis exhibition will be on view April 1-12.
George Bent is the Sidney Gause Childress Professor of Art History.
The interactive exhibition will run from Feb. 13 through March 25.
‘Salvador Dalí: Les Chants de Maldoror’ features original etchings from the surrealist and will run from Jan. 11 through Feb. 8.
The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards of up to $5,000 to U.S. undergraduate students who are Pell Grant recipients.
The associate professor of art history will serve as the Mudd Center Director for three years beginning July 1, 2024.
After graduating with a double degree in English and studio art, Gabriela Gomez-Misserian ’21 took her talents to Garden & Gun Magazine.
The Elmes Pathfinder Prize recognizes a student who has shown extraordinary promise in psychological science through outstanding scholarship in basic or applied psychology.
Delaney will discuss the scientific imaging of paintings in his Oct. 30 lecture.
Greub will explore physical and emotional responses to Twombly’s works in his Oct. 16 lecture in Northen Auditorium.
“Mohammad Omer Khalil: Musings,” co-curated by four Washington and Lee students as part of a seminar course in museum studies, will be on display in the Watson Galleries Sept. 28, 2023 through June 1, 2024.
Sandy de Lissovoy was one of 22 fellows to participate in the prestigious residency program at Mt. San Angelo.
Professor Wendy Castenell kicks off the series on Sept. 19 at noon in Leyburn Library.
Caraballo is one of 369 students from across the U.S. to receive the merit scholarship from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
The Museums at W&L invite the public to their opening reception for “Musings” on Sept. 28 at 6:30 p.m.
The solo exhibition will run from Sept. 4 through Oct. 25 and kicks off the gallery’s fall season.
Leica Geosystems followed Bent and his team of W&L students on a day spent mapping the city of Florence.
Ellie Penner ’23 received a Boren Scholarship to study Hindi in India.
W&L’s campus culture — from small classes to the Speaking Tradition — gave Lemon the communication skills and confidence to succeed.
Washington and Lee’s Museum Artist-in-Residence Program welcomed photographer Stephanie Shih to campus in May to create new work based on the Museums’ art collection.
Emma Steinkraus’ exhibition “Princess Botticelli” opens June 29 at the 1969 Gallery in Tribeca
All funds will support W&L students with Professor George Bent’s digital humanities project “Florence As It Was.”
Boussy has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru research grant to study Buddhist shrines and temples in India.
Melissa Kerin and Barton Myers will each receive $6,000 to support their research projects.
W&L neuroscience students recently partnered with an innovative art-making program offered at Kendal at Lexington.
“OPEN FLOWERS BEAR FRUIT” opens May 1 in the McCarthy Gallery in Holekamp Hall.
The solo exhibition will run from April 24 to May 25 in Staniar Gallery inside Washington and Lee University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Sutherland's advice for current students: "Don’t take yourself too seriously!"
The Museums at W&L invites visitors to reflect on “Born of Fire: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists,” on display through April 29.
Melissa Kerin is an associate professor of art history.
W&L’s most recent museum exhibition, “Mother Clay: The Pottery of Three Pueblo Women,” brought new artists into the university’s collection and connected the campus community in unexpected ways.
Katie Wall Podracky '05 painted the landscape of more than 40 state parks during the COVID-19 shutdown.
This exhibit is free and open to the public, with a scheduled reception and lecture by curator and scholar Jacqueline Chao on March 8 at 5 p.m.
The Staniar Gallery at W&L will hold an exhibition of works by Adrienne Callander through March 17
Two new ceramics exhibits, which spotlight women artists, open to the public Feb. 1.
The solo exhibition by sculptor Sam Blanchard is on view until Feb. 8.
Anthony Edwards, Theodore Van Loan and Kameliya Atanasova were featured at the annual event.
Brinker makes her mark on Florence, Italy’s digital history.
The show will be on view from Nov. 7-Dec. 9
George Bent, David Pfaff and Mackenzie Brooks teamed up to profile the 3D reconstruction of historic sites in Florence, Italy.
A new member of the art faculty, Emma Steinkraus recently completed an exhibition at the Hashimoto Contemporary in Los Angeles.
The show will be on display in Wilson Hall’s Lykes Atrium in conjunction with Esteban Ramón Pérez’s solo exhibition “Distorted Myths,” which will be on view in the Staniar Gallery Oct. 10 through Nov. 2.
The show will be on view from Oct. 10–Nov. 2.
These faculty have been recognized for their outstanding teaching, scholarship and service to the university.
Elliott King profiled the renowned artist for ‘The Journal of Surrealism and the Americas.’
Christine Carr to take part in a yearlong effort with the City of Roanoke Stormwater Utility.
Lepage’s talk “Borderlands Arts Pedagogy” will be held on Sept. 28.
Clover Archer’s work will be featured in the Art in Odd Places Story exhibition in New York City later this month.
The first of three fall exhibitions at Washington and Lee University’s Staniar Gallery is now open to the public.
Sandy de Lissovoy is one of 22 fellows to participate in the prestigious residency program from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
The Museums at W&L invite the public to their opening reception for "Museum Menageries" on Sept. 15 at 6 p.m.
Cleveland is working as a trip leader for an active travel company in Alaska this summer, and she plans to work in Europe this fall.
Sheridan, a business administration and studio art major, will be joining the wealth management team at UBS in New York City.
Students in Elliott King’s Spring Term class, “Modern Art in Barcelona,” are being steeped in Spanish art, history and architecture during an unforgettable educational trip to Barcelona and Madrid.
The two recent acquisitions, a large dish and a small jar, allow the museum to better represent the global reach of Chinese ceramics.
After her USTA program orientation in September, Shugart will team teach in a secondary school in Austria through May 2023.
Washington and Lee’s Staniar Gallery presents “Passage,” a retrospective exhibition of paintings celebrating the career of W&L’s Kathleen Olson. There will be a public reception for the show on May 7 at 5 p.m. in Wilson Concert Hall.
Maggie Hardin '22 has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany.
King co-edited a book as a part of Penn State Press' "Refiguring Modernism" series.
The students’ work is on display in Staniar Gallery through April 9.
W&L will celebrate the international movement on April 2 from noon to 2 p.m. in Watson Gallery on the W&L campus.
McMaster has been awarded a Fulbright research grant to Italy to complete a hybrid art history and computer science project.
The show will be on view from Feb. 14 through March 18, and artist Leah Raintree will give a public talk on Feb. 15.
The exhibition titled “American Surrealist, paintings by Donald Nield (1924-1984)” will be on display through Feb. 9. Professor Elliot King will give a public lecture about Nield’s work on Jan. 18 at 5:30 p.m.
Amelia Lancaster '22 has used her W&L experience to explore a number of interests, ultimately finding a passion in museum studies and Chinese that has allowed her to co-curate a museum exhibition on campus.
The large-scale community artwork created as part of a Mudd Center program will be on view in Wilson Hall's Lykes Atrium through Feb. 9.
On Nov. 30, Taylor will speak on the current VFMA exhibition, "Man Ray: The Paris Years."
The latest episode of W&L's Lifelong Learning podcast takes listeners to Italy with George Bent, who describes his remarkable digital history project.
Kerin recently published a paper titled "Cut, Tuck, and Paste: Repurposing Mass-Produced Imagery at Buddhist Shrines in Ladakh, India."
The exhibit, with works by Maria Cristina Tavera, will be on display Nov. 8-Dec. 3.
A deer figure on display in a new Watson Galleries exhibit, "Auspicious Animals," is an example of the Chinese practice of blending European tastes with encoded symbolic meaning.
The exhibit reflects on women's right to vote.
Cox is an award-winning historian and a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
Adriana Corral on her Installation of "Unearthed: Desenterrado" in Rural Virginia
Dr. Ling-ting Chiu, a Fulbright Scholar and assistant professor of history at Soochow University in Taiwan, spent the summer at Washington and Lee studying the works of former W&L professor and artist Professor I-Hsiung Ju.
The Millennium Gate Museum at Atlantic Station, in Atlanta, Georgia, which is celebrating its seventh anniversary, has an exhibition of the works of the late Chinese artist I-Hsiung Ju, a former professor of art and artist in residence at Washington and Lee University.
The family of I-Hsiung Ju, the award-winning professor of art and artist-in-residence emeritus at Washington and Lee University, has established an endowment for traditional Chinese art studies in his honor with an initial gift of $50,000.
Journey Home, an exhibition of paintings by Washington and Lee Professor Emeritus of Art I-Hsiung Ju, will be on view in Staniar Gallery from October 12 – November 2, 2011. Ju will present an artist’s talk in Wilson Hall’s Concert Hall before the exhibition reception on Oct. 19 at 5:30 p.m. Over the twenty years […]
