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Painting a picture of our art history department

Painting a picture of our art history department

Checking in with the department following professor and requirement changes
Julianna Plewes, Pulse Reporter November 21, 2024

Art history is in the process of hiring a new professor, as previous department head Kathryn O’Rourke left Trinity University last academic year. This leadership transition and an additional temporary...

From left to right: Students Tucker Craft, Jack Maxwell, and Logan Martinez view seal display

Student-written labels featured at San Antonio Museum of Art

Labels were written by students of the art history course This Is America
Ashley Allen, Arts Columnist September 23, 2021

Ever notice museum tags at the San Antonio Museum of Art written by your peers when walking through the galleries? During spring 2020 and 2021, Trinity students enrolled in the art history course “This...

Photo credit: Oliver Chapin-Eiserloh

Jackpot! Ángela García finds her art history home

Logan Crews September 28, 2019
Junior struggles with perfectionism, establishes herself within Trinity's art and music scenes
Photo credit: Genevieve Humphreys

Medieval and Renaissance studies relaunches colloquium

Jolie Francis April 3, 2019
Students present on research and analysis of artworks through the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Screenshot of the 2005 video game, "F.E.A.R."

Aesthetics of video games

Gabriel Levine February 7, 2018

Last week I wrote about the role of choice in videogames as a storytelling medium. This week I’m going to address videogames as a visual art. For the last two decades, a large focus for major games...

photo by Stephen Sumrall-Orsak, staff photographer

Trinity hires new gallery manager

Maggie Lupo January 17, 2018

The bright, airy Michael and Noemi Neidorff Gallery inside Trinity’s Dicke-Smith building stands empty right now. Soon, though, the gallery will display its first show of the semester, under the direction...

graphic by Andrea Nebhut

Pop art history: Peggy Phelan speaks on Andy Warhol

Abigail Wharton December 4, 2017

Students, faculty, staff and assorted lecture attendees filled every seat and parts of the floor within the Chapman Great Hall the evening of Nov. 14 to hear Peggy Phelan speak as a part of the Stieren...

photo by Chloe Sonnier

Jennifer Ling Datchuk Opens Show in Neidorff Art Gallery

Abigail Wharton November 2, 2017

Jennifer Ling Datchuk is an artist at the top of her game. Specializing in ceramics, she also utilizes photography and mixed media installations. As a child of a Chinese immigrant and the grandchild of...