Author and art historian Katy Hessel on the abstract artist’s love for flowers.
But driven by her passion and at the urging of artist and professor James V.
Through his surrealist woodcut, Cortor considers the relationship between humans and animals and tells the stories of Black bodies.
Holland is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor of American Studies in
An environmental historian discusses how artists documented the Little Ice Age.
4 min read April 10, 2023 Dagomar Degroot Dagomar Degroot is an associate professor
Aaron Douglas, widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished and influential visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Topeka, Kansas, on May 26, 1899. He attended a segregated primary school, McKinley Elementary, and Topeka High School, which was integrated.
the 1930s Douglas returned intermittently to Fisk where he served as assistant professor
The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, and Deborah Willis, university professor
Discover terrifying Halloween treasures from Hieronymous Bosch and Edvard Munch—plus lesser-known artists who brilliantly captured ghosts, witches, vampires, and monsters.
Bloom, Fish Skeletons, c. 1956, etching in black on hand-made laid paper, Gift of Professor
Taking an in-depth look at the historical experiences and cultural formations of Black and African people since the 17th century, this exhibition includes works of art like paintings, sculpture, photographs, and time-based media by artists from Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean.
Popular (People’s Graphic Arts Workshop) and became the first woman sculpture professor
Center’s Kress Professors, 1995–2016, with a short reminiscence about each professor
Through her evocative installations, the pioneering Chicana artist seeks to connect the past with the present.
teaching, Mesa-Bains responds to questions with the severe aura of a university professor
