art

Lead curator of the National Gallery, London, to speak at Randolph College

Suzanna Avery-Quash poses in a gallery, in front of two paintings hung on a purple wall

Susanna Avery-Quash will discuss activities celebrating the National Gallery’s bicentenary this year, as well as a recent exhibition she curated there. ... READ MORE >>

33rd Annual Berlind Symposium set for Oct. 26

Photo inside the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, showing the new exhibition. A large-scale black and white drawing takes up the entirety of the left wall, while three colorful paintings hang on the back wall opposite.

The program is inspired by the College’s 113th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, “Vita Wild: Contemporary Wildlife Art.”... READ MORE >>

Grace Duckworth ’23 brings passion for history, education to role at George Mason’s Gunston Hall

Grace Duckworth ’23 poses in George Mason’s Gunston Hall

Duckworth is a full-time educator at the historic Georgian-style home of one of the country’s founding fathers.... READ MORE >>

College’s 113th Annual Exhibition, ‘Vita Wild,’ opens on Sept. 8

Acrylic painting featuring a wolf drinking from a small body of water, surrounded by dark woods

The exhibit showcases nine contemporary artists whose works reflect cultural and environmental changes that expand the expression and definition of traditional wildlife art. ... READ MORE >>

Studio art professor Chris Cohen showing work at the Maier this fall

Professor Chris Cohen stands in the studio holding two of his paintings

Cohen’s recent paintings are featured in an exhibit that opens on Sunday, Sept. 8. ... READ MORE >>

Annual Berlind Symposium to spotlight artists books by women

The symposium will include artist talks by Lyall Harris and Nia Easley, who will chronologically describe their path as artists and what led them to artists books, as well as a panel discussion with Harris, Easley, guest curator Martha Chiplis, and moderator Lynora Williams.... READ MORE >>

Annual exhibition spotlighting ‘Artists’ Books by Women’

Back to Front: Artists’ Books by Women opens with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22. ... READ MORE >>

Andi Curtis ’23 completes collections management internship before heading overseas for grad school

Curtis double majored in history and art history, with a minor in Renaissance studies, at Randolph. Now she’s preparing to start a masters program in medieval history at Swansea University in Wales.  ... READ MORE >>

Randolph professor, student develop art reinstallation proposal for the Maier

“This project does a lot of things, but it reinvigorates the idea of the museum. I want more of the collection to be seen, and I also want it to be more representative of artists who the students could relate to.”... READ MORE >>

Shipley co-edits book on art activism, Gauthier contributes chapter

The work of two faculty members was recently featured in “The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century.”... READ MORE >>