Mar 18, 2024  
2023-2024 Catalog 
  
2023-2024 Catalog

Art


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Faculty

Kris Cohen
Modern and contemporary art history, media studies. On leave fall 2023.

Daniel Duford
Ceramic sculpture, block printing, drawing and graphic novels.

Juniper Harrower
Painting, drawing, and print media.

Dana E. Katz
Renaissance, baroque, and colonial Latin American art and architecture; Jews and the visual arts; methodologies of art history.

Akihiko Miyoshi
Photography and digital media.

Geraldine Ondrizek
Sculpture, installation, drawing, artists’ books.

Jennifer Sakai
Early modern Northern art, urbanism, decay, iconoclasm, reception and the uses of art, the status of representation, materiality, and the relationship between power and painting.

Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.
Social practice, sculpture, and installation.

Shivani Sud
South Asian art, colonial eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. On leave spring 2024.

Barbara Tetenbaum
Book arts and printmaking.

Michelle H. Wang
Art and archaeology of early China.

Curriculum

Art majors at Reed study both art history and studio art, which the department sees as complementary disciplines. Introductory courses provide a foundation and an intensive experience in the practice of art or creative scholarship for both prospective majors and nonmajors.

In studio art, alternative 100-level introductory courses lead to 200- and 300-level courses in the general fields of drawing, painting, and printmaking; sculpture, installation, and image and text; and photography, digital media, and internet literacy. In art history, the introductory course introduces students to the discipline of art history through a detailed, methodologically based examination of a particular body of art. Advanced courses acquaint students with selected periods, movements, or issues in art and in the various methods of art-historical research, as students learn to refine their powers of critical observation by looking, talking, and writing at length about individual works of art and other art-historical questions.

Art history facilities include a large conference room equipped with digital projection equipment, a visual resources collection, and a first-class gallery. These offer students the possibility of working closely with original objects.

The studio arts building contains classrooms for painting, printmaking, letterpress, bookbinding, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and digital media; a gallery/critique space; a seminar/projection room; faculty offices and studios; senior studios; and a lounge.

The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery shows art of national and international stature through traveling exhibitions and those curated by the gallery director and faculty members. For more complete information on the gallery, see “The Educational Program .” 

Senior Thesis

The senior thesis encourages students to pursue a significant, clearly defined project through individual initiative and independent work, culminating in a unified body of art or historical study.

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