Student Art Works
Areas of Concentration
Art Studio
Art History
University of Rhode Island
105 Upper College Road, Suite 1
Kingston, RI 02881-0820
Telephone: (401) 874-5821
E-mail: Artdept@etal.uri.edu
About Us
The Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rhode Island provides a comprehensive program that offer undergraduate degrees in both Studio Art (BFA and BA) and Art History (BA).
All students must fulfill the Basic Liberal Studies requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences, so they receive a broad liberal arts education in addition to their major. The Department of Art and Art History has a full-time faculty of eight studio artists and four art historians in addition to several adjunct instructors. The studio art faculty regularly exhibit their work in galleries and museums, and several have established national and international reputations. The art historians are well-known for their scholarly publications, lectures, and presentations at national and international conferences. Some faculty hold joint appointments with programs in Women's Studies, Film Media, and African and African-American Studies.
Our classes are small, and there are many opportunities for informal discussion with faculty. Students have opportunities for off-campus internships in digital media design, photography, advertising, television, film, museums, galleries, preservation and historical societies, and with commercial companies. The Department also hosts visiting artists and art historians as well as field trips to New York City to visit museums and galleries. In addition to our academic programs, the Fine Arts Center Galleries present exhibitions of contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, and other special events.
! Attention Students ! New IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction (IDEA-SRI)
Online course evaluations began:
Friday, April 17th and will continue through Friday, May 1st.
Go to the link below and find the course by:
Course Code - Section Number - Instructors Name
The results of the IDEA-SRI surveys can be of significant help to instructors for developing and improving their courses. They may also be included as part of the information used to make continuation, and promotion and tenure decisions on instructors.
Ratings will be most fair and helpful to the instructor and the institution if your answers are thoughtful and honest. You should answer all the questions even if some do not seem directly relevant to the course. Instructors are not expected to do well on every item and those not related to the course are not counted in the final evaluation.
Finally, your responses are kept completely confidential by the IDEA Center in Kansas. Reports to instructors are based on aggregated data.
Departmental News
The Senior Seminar Class of 2009 catalogue - Now Available!
The Senior Seminar Class of 2009 catalogue is now available for preview and purchase at blurb.com
Here's how to order.
Go to: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/654103
or, once you've logged onto the site you can search "senior seminar" and click the link titled
"books tagged with senior seminar." You'll have a choice in hard or soft cover.
Cheers, Bob
Art History Professor Pamela Warner - Presents Movie Night - Feb. 26, 2009
I hope many of you will come to see this great movie, one of the most moving I have seen in my life,
about the looting and attempts to protect art in Europe during World War II.
The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate
destruction and miraculous survival of Europe's art treasures during World War II.
In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent
whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the
artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed
art on a scale unprecedented in history. But heroic young art historians and
curators from America and across Europe fought back with an extraordinary
campaign to rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and stolen treasures.
We will show it on Feb 26 @ 7:00 p.m. in Swan Hall Auditorium. All faculty, students and their friends are welcome.
URI Art Student Screen Films at Boston Open Screen
On February 10th, three of the students in our film classes screened there work at Boston Open Screen http://www.bostonopenscreen.com Arthur Kobin, Rachel Mossberg, and Matt Hedges. This event was at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, MA.
Behind the Scenes at the Palm Beach Opera
Andrew Henschel graduating in 1992 from URI with a degree in fine arts, is now the property master for the Palm Beach Opera. Click here to see the full article in the URI Quad Angles.
President's Excellence Award Recipients for 2008
Emily Bibb in Art
Samantha Henneberry in Art History
2008 Honor's Program Presentations
Samantha Henneberry "Modern Leonidas, Honor, Discipline and Sacrifice: Ancient Sparta in an American
Military Context", paper and multi-media installation
Lucy Sumners "Aids Art: Activism on Canvas"
Valerie Kitchin "Chrysallis", an experimental film
Visualizations 2008: College of Arts and Sciences Student Film Festival
Valerie Kitchin, 1st Place in Experimental Film category
Amy Miller, 2nd Place in Narrative/Open
Peter Simons, 2nd Place in Experimental
Graduating Seniors and Alumnae Art and Art History Majors going to graduate schools
Samantha Hennberry UC-Berkeley, PhD program in Classical archaeology
with full scholarship
Katie Guida Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D program in Art History
(Renaissance) with Teaching Assistantship
Tara Dawson New York University, MA program in Museum Studies
Fain Robert '05 University of Arizona, PhD program in Art History (Modern)
with Teaching Assistantship
Kerry Boccher '07 Roger Williams University School of Law with Fellowship
(waitlisted at Suffolk U, BU, and Fordham U Law Schools)
Emily Bibb '07 New York University, MA program in Museum Studies
Ben Lueck '06 University of California, Berkeley, MA program in Architecture
Sarah Lueck '06 California College of the Arts, MA program in Architecture
Sam Peck University of North Carolina, Greensboro, MFA program
Kirk Snow '04 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MFA program
Ian Sexton, Emerson College, MA program in Visual and Media Arts
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