Special Opportunities and Events

Art History Association

The Art History Association is a student group of art enthusiasts who bring in speakers and take field trips to museums. They also discuss various art-historical issues. They hold regular meetings.

Speakers

The Department of Art History regularly hosts speakers who lecture on a wide variety of topics from American depictions of medical operations to Japanese dream paintings to the reasons behind the design of a major Art History survey text. Recent speakers include Laurinda Dixon, Professor of Art History at Syracuse University, Sheila McGuire, of the Minneapolis Institute of Art to name a couple . In 2006, the Barker Newhall Lecture Series was inaugurated to honor the first professor to teach Art History at Kenyon.

Field trips

Field trips are a regular part of advanced Art History classes at Kenyon. Classes have visited the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Art Institute, various private collections, and more. The Art History Association also organizes field trips for Art History majors and minors.

Kenyon in Rome at the Pantheon Institute

Enrich your Kenyon education with a semester in Italy! In the Fall of 2010,Kenyon College students will have the opportunity to engage in a unique programbased in Rome, with extended visits to Florence, Naples, and other culturalcenters in Italy. The Kenyon in Rome program offers students an exceptionalopportunity to study Italian art and culture first hand with Kenyon professors. Open to all Kenyon students with Junior standing in Fall 2010, regardlessof major. More...