The Department of Art and Art History at Agnes Scott College

12/15/2024

Alumnae, please join us!

Also, if anyone has photographs of Dana 101, we are collecting them. Please send them to us!

08/22/2024

Dear alumnae!
The department of Art and Art History at Agnes Scott College has collaborated with the deparments of Music, Theatre and Dance to be the Department of Creative Arts with concentrations in the traditional deparments. Art and Art History is now a concentration within the Creative Arts and is known as Visual Practices. Follow us as we transition on https://daltongallery.agnesscott.org/

More info and links to come!
Contact us and tell us where you are now, and what you're up to!

24 | 25: The Portman Project

10/17/2023

10/12/2023

Tomorrow night: annual gallery talks by seniors on the current exhibition in the Dalton Gallery, "Recordar Anhelar: The Aesthetics of Undocumentedness." Join us at 6 pm! Also, read of lasted Admission blog on this assignment.

https://admissionblog.agnesscott.org/

05/22/2023

Congratulations to Ashley Williams (art history ' 11), who has just been named William H. Truettner Predoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum! We look forward to reading your dissertation, "Unfree Artists on the Borders of U.S. Empire, 1850-1930."

09/28/2022

09/23/2022

For those in the Atlanta area who are interested and available. Seminar is free but registration required; text is provided.

09/10/2022

This paper is an intriguing extension of Ashley's senior capstone paper on Orientalism in 19th-century art.

The second paper in the Session VII: Art and Empire is Ashley E. Williams' “Crafting Leisurely Empire: Wicker Chairs and Prison Labor in the American-Occupied Philippines after 1898." Williams situates wicker furniture within interwoven contexts of labor, incarceration, and Pacific colonialism. Williams argues that wicker chairs were used to project a leisurely, benevolent approach to American empire. However, the connotations of repose and rehabilitation concealed instabilities: worker exploitation, the threat of Filipino resistance, and uncertainty among Americans about overseas expansion.


🖼: Blanche M. Osborn, Peacock chairs and bird cages, 1917, Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries.

06/20/2020

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