Chair: Tobias Armborst; 

Professors: Tobias Armborst, Lisa Gail Collins, Eve D’Ambra,Yvonne Elet, Brian Lukacher, Molly Nesbit, Laura Newman^a;

Assistant Professors: Petya Andreeva, Gordon Hall^b, John Hulsey, Elizabeth Lastra;

Lecturers: Gina Ruggeri, Christina Tenaglia, T. Barton Thurber;

Visiting Assistant Professors: Haohao Lu, Padma Rajendran, Luisa Valle;

Adjunct Assistant Professors: Jeane Cohen, Abigail Gunnels, Caitlin MacBride, John Murphy, Serena Qiu.

Art History Major Advisers: The art history faculty.

Studio Art Major Advisers: The studio art faculty.

^a   On leave 2024/25, first semester

^b   On leave 2024/25, second semester

Programs

Major

• •  Art History Major
• •  Studio Art Major

Correlate Sequences in Art

• •  Art History Correlate Sequence
• •  Studio Art Correlate Sequence

Courses

Art History: I. Introductory

• •  ART 105 - Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture
• •  ART 106 - Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture
• •  ART 120 - The Vassar Campus
• •  ART 144 - Living in the Ancient City
• •  ART 160 - Art and Storytelling

Art History: II. Intermediate

• •  ART 211 - Rome: The Art of Empire
• •  ART 215 - The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
• •  ART 219 - The First Cities: The Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
• •  ART 220 - Medieval Art and Architecture
• •  ART 221 - Islamic Art and Architecture
• •  ART 230 - Art in the Age of Van Eyck, Durer and Bruegel
• •  ART 231 - The Golden Age of Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer
• •  ART 235 - The Rise of the Artist, from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci
• •  ART 236 - Art in the Age of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo
• •  ART 239 - Art of the Global Dutch Republic
• •  ART 240 - Global History of Modern Architecture and Urbanism I: Race, Capital, and Empire
• •  ART 251 - Introduction to American Art
• •  ART 256 - The Arts of China
• •  ART 260 - Buddhist Art and Visual Culture
• •  ART 262 - Art and Revolution in Europe, 1789-1848
• •  ART 263 - Painters of Modern Life: Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism
• •  ART 264 - The Metropolitan Avant-Gardes
• •  ART 265 - Modern Art and the Mass Media: the New Public Sphere
• •  ART 266 - Art, Urgency, and Everyday Life in the United States
• •  ART 268 - After 1968: Sustainable Aesthetics
• •  ART 272 - Global History of Architecture and Urbanism II: Race, Capitalism, and Change
• •  ART 273 - A Mirror Image: The Search for Self, Place & Home in Contemporary Architecture in the World, 1980s+
• •  ART 274 - Buildings and Cities in Early Modern Italy
• •  ART 277 - Visual Psychedelia
• •  ART 279 - Landscape History and Conservation at Matthew Vassar’s Springside
• •  ART 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  ART 292 - Collecting Antiquities at Vassar: Lost and Found in the Loeb
• •  ART 293 - Asian Art in 100 Objects
• •  ART 295 - Paper Protests: Printmaking as Activism
• •  ART 298 - Independent Work

Art History: III. Advanced

• •  ART 312 - Critical Readings in Art History
• •  ART 314 - Seminar in Ancient Art
• •  ART 317 - Museums in a Time of Change
• •  ART 318 - Building the Museum: Collecting and Displaying Art from the Renaissance to the Present
• •  ART 320 - Seminar in Medieval Art
• •  ART 323 - Visualizing Abolition
• •  ART 331 - Seminar in Northern European Art
• •  ART 332 - Seminar in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
• •  ART 333 - Gardens and Landscape in Early Modern Italy
• •  ART 358 - Seminar in Asian Art
• •  ART 362 - Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Art
• •  ART 364 - Seminar in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art
• •  ART 366 - Art and Activism in the U.S.
• •  ART 370 - Seminar in Architectural History
• •  ART 382 - Belle Ribicoff Seminar
• •  ART 385 - Seminar in American Art
• •  ART 387 - City and Country: New York and the Hudson Valley
• •  ART 399 - Senior Independent Work

Studio Art: I. Introductory

• •  ART 102 - Drawing I: Visual Language
• •  ART 103 - Drawing I: Visual Language
• •  ART 108 - Color

Studio Art: II. Intermediate

• •  ART 202 - Painting I
• •  ART 203 - Painting I
• •  ART 204 - Sculpture I
• •  ART 205 - Sculpture I
• •  ART 206 - Drawing II
• •  ART 207 - Drawing II
• •  ART 208 - Printmaking: Relief
• •  ART 209 - Printmaking: Intaglio
• •  ART 212 - Photography
• •  ART 213 - Photography II
• •  ART 214 - Color Digital Photography
• •  ART 217 - Video Art
• •  ART 222 - Video and Expanded Media 1
• •  ART 275 - Architectural Design I
• •  ART 276 - Architectural Design II
• •  ART 285 - The Making of a Printshop

Studio Art: III. Advanced

• •  ART 300 - Senior Essay Preparation
• •  ART 301 - Senior Project
• •  ART 302 - Painting II
• •  ART 303 - Painting II
• •  ART 304 - Sculpture II
• •  ART 305 - Sculpture II
• •  ART 306 - Studio Critiques
• •  ART 307 - Printmaking II: Expanded Print
• •  ART 322 - Video and Expanded Media II
• •  ART 369 - Thinking Doing: Research and Creative Practice
• •  ART 375 - Architectural Design III

Urban Studies: I. Introductory

• •  ART 177 - Special Topics