Student Focus

Practice of Art Student Emma Mohrmann ’24 on the Art of Paper Making

Emma Mohrmann, a junior in the A&A Practice of Art track, recently participated in visual artist Kyoko Ibe’s paper-making workshop, hosted by Visual Arts Lecturer Daniel Heyman at 185 Nassau.  Having worked in paper previously, Mohrmann was inspired to…

Course Highlight: ART 565 “Seminar in Modernist Art and Theory: Before and After Gender"

Co-taught by A&A Professors Bridget Alsdorf and Irene Small, ART 565: “Seminar in Modernist Art and Theory: Before and After Gender” revisits major approaches to feminist art history from the nineteenth century to the present, while considering how queer, trans, masculinity, and decolonial studies have transformed art-historical analysis…

Course Highlight: ART 209 “Between Renaissance and Revolution: Baroque Art in Europe”

Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s ART 209 “Between Renaissance and Revolution: Baroque Art in Europe” surveys changes in European art from the end of the Renaissance until the Age of Revolution c. 1800. A highlight of the course is visiting Princeton University Art Museum’s collection to examine works firsthand.  “Certainly, my…

Course Highlight: ART 343 “Topics in 19th-Century Art: Artists and Their Subjects”

ART 343 “Topics in 19th-Century Art: Artists and Their Subjects” explores the various representations of the relationship between artist and subject in the period between the French Revolution and the turn of the nineteenth century. Throughout the semester, lecturer Carmen Rosenberg-Miller *22, whose own work centers around philosophies of…

Course Highlight: ART 228 “Art and Power in the Middle Ages”

ART 228 “Art and Power in the Middle Ages” looks at politics and religion reflected in the art of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa between 300 and 1200 C.E., exploring the art of great courts as well as migratory societies and of religions including Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam.  Fundamental to the understanding…

Engineering Student Alexis Wu '25 Highlights Mudd Manuscript Library as a Resource for ART102

Need Resources For Your Next Paper? Visit the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library!

In this post, I share my experience of requesting resources from Princeton’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library for a research paper in ART102/ARC102: An Introduction to the History of Architecture. I took the Spring 2022 iteration of…

A&A's Megan Coates Meets Greece's President While Advocating for Diversity in Greek University Exchange Programs

I enrolled at Stockton University as a Nursing major. The degree required a number of humanities courses, one of which was "The Worlds of Homer," taught by Princeton alum Professor David Roessel *97. He approached me and asked if I would perform a piece he translated, the only catch was that the performances would be in Cyprus and Greece,…

Madeleine Haddon *21: From A&A to the V&A East

In her new role as Curator of V&A East, Madeleine Haddon *21 has the riveting and crucial task of establishing the museum of the future. Scheduled to open in spring 2025 in East London, V&A East is the new campus of the acclaimed Victoria & Albert Museum. The new museum aims to engage the transformative power of art and design to…

Mark Guiducci ’10: From A&A to Vogue

His B.A. in art & archaeology has paved a glamorous career path for Mark Guiducci ’10, who is, today, the Creative Editorial Director at Vogue.  Guiducci draws a direct line between his current position and its roots in A&A: “My thesis advisor Bridget Alsdorf encouraged us to analyze clothes as much as any other part…

Dispatches from the Field: Fatih Tarhan’s Search for Mamluk Mosque Lamps in Cairo

For some time now, I have been engaging with the sense-scapes of art objects from the Islamic Middle East, trying to understand them within their architectural context. Despite ongoing skepticism, the study of the sensorium of art objects has definitely become a hot topic within Islamic art—and within this sensorial conundrum, what really…

Louisa Ferguson '12: From A&A to Spotify

Louisa Ferguson ’12, Head of Global Marketing Experience at Spotify, exemplifies the limitless opportunities a degree in art & archaeology provides.  She now holds a dream job, merging her love of music and music culture with the captivating task of building new digital experiences for Spotify users.

Ferguson knew when she…

Archaeology Certificate Student Shaun Cason, Class of 2023, Among Sachs Scholarship Recipients

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Sachs Scholarship awarded to two Princeton seniors, one Oxford student

Emily Aronson, Office of Communications

Jan. 19, 2023

Princeton seniors Shaun Cason and Anna Allport and University of Oxford student Isabelle (Izzy) Stuart have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960…

I took Archaeology in the Field this past summer....

I took “Archaeology in the Field” this past summer and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about archaeology and looking to experience something new.

The excavation part of the course is a rare chance to work on an actual archaeological project with professionals. If you have any interest in pursuing a career in archaeology…

Mentorship Program Takes Students on New York Gallery and Private Collection Tour

As part of the Art & Archaeology Undergraduate Mentoring Program, A&A juniors Drew Pugliese, Cary Moore, and Lucy Gutman, senior Benjy Jude, and graduate student Samuel Shapiro traveled to New York to visit Chelsea Galleries and Tom Tuttle’s ’88 private collection.

Regarding Violence, an exhibition of recent works by…

Inaugural A&A Major’s Colloquium a Success!

The first day of Reading Period saw the inaugural Majors’ Colloquium in A&A: the junior and senior cohorts in History of Art and Practice of Art convened for work-in-progress presentations and discussion about their independent projects.

Thanks to all the students for their generous engagement with one another’s work, and best…

Graduate Symposium Insights from the Organizers

From the earliest stages of conference planning, the question of format—whether the event would be in person, entirely on Zoom, or hybrid—was at the forefront of our minds. Although we had come to appreciate the wide access and flexible format offered by an online venue—and even as we feared a potential third winter of virus recrudescence…

Wintersession Highlight! Meet Socrates, the Punk!

Socrates was a punk! In this Wintersession 2023 workshop, we’ll examine the sound, style, and theories behind the punk rock genre, from a philosophical perspective.  Beginning with the “proto-punk” bands of the mid-1970s and moving chronologically into contemporary “post-punk” genres, such as emo and pop-punk, philosophical themes will be…

Wintersession Highlight! Make Your Own Mosaic!

In this Wintersession 2023 workshop, each participant will receive a mosaic kit to complete and take home while Katy Knortz, art & archaeology graduate student, teaches them about the history of mosaics in antiquity. Chief Conservator at the Princeton…

Fall 2022 Junior / Senior Open Studios

Enjoy food, art, and great conversation with our students in their studios on Tuesday, November 15th from 5:30–7:00 pm at 185 Nassau Street, 4th floor.

Coming Spring 2023 - ART 414 / CLA 414 / HLS 414: Hellenistic Art

“For me, most exciting are the interactions of Hellenistic visual cultures we see in extraordinary recent finds from Macedonia and Afghanistan, at opposite ends of the Hellenistic world.” – Professor Bert Smith

The conquest of Asia from Anatolia to Afghanistan by Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great) brought far…

Coming Spring 2023 - ART 388: Fascist Aesthetics

“In 2022, armed with our smartphones and the platforms of social media, we all have the power to play a role in shaping the visual culture of the contemporary moment. This course considers the interwar period, an era in which such power and access weren’t always given and in which women began to emerge in large numbers as professional…

Around Roma Antiqua in 7 Days!

Salve! As a Classics major, I was accustomed to hearing the Latin word for “Hello!” at the start of a language class or as a greeting on the first day of the Princeton Certamen. You can imagine my bewilderment, then, when an Italian cashier welcomed me to his shop with a fluent Salve! on the second day of our class trip to…

Coming Spring 2023 - ART 571: Frequencies of Black Life

“The course is intended as a space for an interdisciplinary consideration of how we might use the idea of frequency as an analytic framework across multiple fields of study. Collaborative thinking is a crucial part of both my scholarship and my writing practice so it’s something I am eager to cultivate among grad students. The collaborative…

Coming Spring 2023 - ART 447 / HLS 445 / ARC 440: Siegecraft

“I’m most looking forward to looking at a whole range of artworks I've never studied before, together with students. Princeton has truly amazing prints, drawings, and books that we can explore together.” – Professor Carolyn Yerkes

Siegecraft was an art more complex than painting, more powerful than sculpture, and more monumental…

Graduate Student Highlight

Graduate student Nathan Stobaugh presented Queerer Mirrors: Identification and Disidentification in VALIE EXPORT's Television and Cinema at The Barnes Foundation 26th Annual…

Faculty and Alumni CAA Awards

CAA announced its 2022 Awards for Distinction this week.  Two Department of Art & Archaeology alumni earned awards for their publications and one of our faculty contributed an essay to a publication that won a prize.

Kaira Cabañas *07’s…