Maier hosting senior exhibitions, art history senior presentations in April

From left to right, Elizabeth Bailey’s “Red Tailed Hawk 2,” 2024, and Allie Allen’s “Untitled,” 2024

Three students are wrapping up their Randolph experiences with exhibitions and presentations of their work. 

The 2025 Senior Studio Art Thesis Exhibition, featuring the work of Allie Allen ’25 and Elizabeth Bailey ’25, and the Senior Museum and Heritage Studies Exhibition, co-curated by Jacob Lofaso ’25 and art history professor Andrea Campbell, both open with a reception at 1 on April 13 at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College. 

Francesco Xanto Avelli, Shallow Bowl on Low Foot with the Conversion of Saul, c.1525, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Lofaso’s exhibit, Performance and Display: The Art of Renaissance Maiolica, highlights a fascinating period in Italian history marked by advances in the arts and sciences, which saw the creation of ceramics that blended artistic innovation with scientific experimentation. 

It is the first exhibition of its kind in Lynchburg and includes loans from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 

All three are double majors in art history and will also give their capstone project presentations at 2 p.m.: Allen’s Understanding Egon Schiele in Light of his Philosophical Contemporaries; Bailey’s Demystifying the Enigmatic: A Close Look at a Selection of Self Portraits by Gwen John; and Lofaso’s Cross-Cultural Craftsmanship: The Ceramic Vessels of Magdalene Odundo. 

The event is free and open to the public.