ART HISTORY
Art History course work spans Ancient to Contemporary Art and includes Architecture, Photography, Film, and Visual theory.
These requirements represent the current Art Department policy. Please check the University Bulletin of the year you declared your major to confirm policies that apply to you.
The department offers two majors, art history and studio art, each requiring a minimum of thirty hours. A minor in either art history or studio art requires a minimum of fifteen hours. Students may major in one field and minor in another by earning a minimum of thirty-nine hours in art, of which at least twenty-four hours must be in the major field and at least twelve hours in the minor field
Art Dept Schedule
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Tenure-track Faculty Position
WFU Art Dept.
Talks Feature Faculty Artists
Thurs, Jan 31 @ 5pm
Tues, Feb 2 @ 2pm
The Art of Bookmaking Tue, Jan 22/5-7pm Reception Exhibition: Jan 22- Feb 9 START Gallery Reynolda Village Faculty [III] 13 Reception: Thurs Feb 21 5-7pm Exhibition: January 17 - February 21 Hanes Art Gallery, Scales Fine Arts Center Wil Wilner and Alix Hitchcock “feathers” opening Friday October 5th, 5-7pm Davis Gallery - Sawtooth School Milton Rhodes Building, Winston-Salem Chanchal Dadlani Rendering the Word: Calligraphy and Inscription in Islamic Art Thursday, September 27 @ 3:30 p.m Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery Alix Hitchcock Wax Foundations: Encaustic in the Southeast Sunday, Sept. 9, 2 - 4pm thru Oct. 28 Meredith College, Raleigh, NC Hanes Gallery Of Paper Leo Morrissey and Delio Gennai Scales Fine Art Center Carswell Hall’s Annenberg Forum Joel Tauber Sick-Amour "an unconventional love story" Tuesday, September 18 at 7 p.m Carswell Hall’s Annenberg Forum David Faber Waterworks Gallery August 24 Salsbury, NC Bernadine Barnes receives the Rubin Family Fellowship recognition for years of teaching, scholarship Leigh Ann Hallberg and Paul Bright Rowe Arts Gallery Recent Works" March 19th, 5 - 7pm Hallberg and Bright will give short gallery talks at 5:45pm UNC Charlotte Howard Finster & Victor Faccinto A Million Words, a thousand pictures Thursday, Feb. 23 Hanes Art Gallery Scales Fine Arts Center Exhibition Opening Reception: 5 - 7pm. Douglas Fordham will speak The Limits of Cultural Exchange: British Artists in 18th-Century India Monday, February 6, 5:30 P.M Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102 A reception will follow. Strictly Academic 2 reception is Thursday, February 2nd 5:30 to 7:30 PM Womble Carlyle Gallery 251 N. Spruce Street, W-S "Next to the Last Resort" A show of Bodies and Objects Thursday 12/8; 6 30- 8pm Art Annex 2012” 505 Baity St. (off Deacon Blvd. behind Last Resort) Faculty Forum Morna O'Neill "The Art Market as Art History: The Case of Hugh Lane (1875-1915)." Thurs. (12/1) 5:30, Scales 102 Joel Tauber Nominated - International Green Award Joel Tauber featured new book "Erratic: Visual Impact in Current Design." "Searching for The Impossible: The Flying Project" START Gallery All Wet Prof. John Pickel's Darkroom Photo Class Reynolda Village Nov 8 - 23 Alix Hitchcock: New Work Artworks Gallery 564 N. Trade St, W-S,corner of 6th Nov. 4, 7 - 10pm Page Laughlin: Hidden Worlds Lamar University Beaumont, TX Sept 23 - Oct 21 Rudy Shepherd: Heroes and Villains Annual WFU Art Alumni Exhibition START Gallery Sept 27 - Oct 15 WFU Art Department Party Scales Lobby Wed, Oct 5, 6-7:30pm Art Dept DC trip Fall Break! October 21-22 login w/ wfu username/password Welcome Back!! Art Dept. Open House August 30th 1:00-3:00 pm Hanes Gallery Scales Fine Art Center TRANSFORMING RACE ART EXHIBITION Thursday, May 19, 2011 6—8 PM Liberty Arts Center 526 N. Liberty Street FREE and OPEN to the public Margaret Supplee Smith Faculty Forum Lecture Architecture Matters Tuesday April 12th, SFAC, Rm 102, 5:30-7pm Recption to follow Alix Hitchcock Eleanor & Egbert Davis Gallery Sawtooth School for Visual Art N. Spruce St, W-S, NC Again, Tuesday March 29th, opening reception is April 8, 5-7pm 2011 WFU Student Exhibition April 14 – May 16 Opening Reception: April 14, 5- 7pm Miles Orvell Historian of Modern American Culture Monday March 28th, 2011 5:00 PM, Scales Rm. 102 Again, Tuesday March 29th, 5:30 PM, Reynolda House Start GAllery "Loose Change" Painting 2&3 Exhibition Opening Reception Tues. March 29 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Christina Kirouac Milton Rhodes Downtown Art Center Thursday March 24th, 2011 5:30 - 7:30 PM Start GAllery March 15 - March 26 Constructing Art Solo Exhibition: Leigh Anne White Opening Reception Tues. March 15 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM March 3 - Dr.Margaret Supplee Smith will discuss American ski resorts as “cultural landscapes" in the new Welcome/Admissions Center reception from 4:00-4:30 and the program starts at 4:30. Art Info Session Wednesday, March 2 6:00 Scales Lobby Start GAllery March 1 - March 12 Naked Generation elections from Sculpture Fabrication Opening Reception Tues. March 1 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM WFU Art Department Faculty and Staff Exhibition Opening on February 17th from 5-7 pm Hanes Gallery SFAC Corner of the Room Selections from Professor Hallberg's Intro. to Drawing class Opening Reception: Tues. Feb. 1 6:00 - 8:00 PM Start Gallery Thursday, Jan 20, artist Edward Rice will speak in Room 9 at 1 pm Reception in Scales Lobby for his exhibition of paintings, and for Los Suenos: prints of Goya, Miro, and Picasso, 4-6pm. Corner of the Room - StArt Gallery Selections from Professor Leigh Ann Hallberg's Intro. to Drawing class February 1 - February 12 Opening Reception: Feb. 1 6:00 - 8:00 PM Start Gallery "I See" Selections from Professor John Pickel's Videography class November 16 – November 27 Reception: Tuesday, November 16 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Works by Alix Hitchcock Bernardin's Fine Dining at Zevely House on Tuesday, November 2nd November 2 5:00-7:00 pm, Winston-Salem, NC Three Decades of Work by Victor Faccinto Lusie Ross Gallery, 511W 25th St. 307, NYC 20 Nov. - 15 Jan. luiserossgallery.com Visiting Artist Charlotte Schulz will speak about her work 3pm on Thursday, Oct. 21 in Room 9 Her lecture will be followed by an opening reception Professor Harry Titus will be giving a talk "Building Ribbed Vaults at Auxerre Cathedral" Wednesday, 10/27 at 5:30 pm in Scales 102 followed by a discussion and a reception START Gallery Defaced," a selection of works from Alix Hitchcock's Intermediate Drawing class October 30. The hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Jamé Anderson | WFU Art Alumna | Wed. Sept. 29, 3pm, Scales Rm 9 Jamé discusses graduate school in architecture at RISD and her career as an architect and exhibit designer
at the National Gallery in Washington DC Tue., Sept 7, 6-8pm, START Gallery Opening Reception Water Soaked Chaff Video works by alumna Betsy Rives Alumni Talk: Betsy Rives Mon, Sept 6, 12noon, Critique area, SFAC Ground Floor Recent WFU ART graduate discusses the transition to graduate school in art and beyond - Lunches welcome A Memorial Service for Peter Brunette will be held, Thursday, September 9 at 5:00 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall at the Scales Fine Art Center. A reception will follow in the Scales lobby. Jamie Anderson: Wednesday, September 29, 3:00 p.m. in room 9. Jamie will talk about her professional experiences since WFU undergrad and graduate school at RISD, where she received her Architecture Degree. She does museum and exhibition design at the National Gallery in Washington. Nancy Hoffman will visit during the Painting with Paint exhibition to talk about the artists and the history of her gallery. Hoffman Lecture: Sept. 27, 3pm, Room 102 SFAC Art Wing The Art Department hosts an Open House during Orientation for Incoming Students Monday, August 23 1:00-3:00pm | Scales Lobby & START Gallery Our Dear Friend Peter Brunette has passed away See the video from David Finn's Transforming Race Project START Gallery in the News Read the article by Laura Giovanelli in the Winston-Salem Journal: Student Hangout: Gallery gives WFU\'s young artists a space to call their own Public Art in Chapel Hill: Finn’s Sculptural Climbing Wall
Requirements
The art history major requires at least, twenty-four hours in art history and six hours in studio art. Art History majors are encouraged to take a course in non-western art.
A minor in art history requires twelve hours in art history and three hours in studio art.
Students contemplating graduate study in art history should use German, French, or Italian to complete their foreign language requirement. Many courses in other departments supplement those offered in the art department and may be taken as electives.
• Art 103
• One course in Ancient, Classical, or Medieval Art
• One course in Renaissance, Baroque, or Eighteenth-Century Art
• One course in Modern Painting, Architecture, Photography, or Film
• Art 394: Issues in Art History
• One art history seminar
• Two studio art courses
• Electives
| FACULTY | ||||
| Name | Concentration | Office | Phone | |
| Bernadine Barnes | Italian Renaissance | 106 | 758-5303 | barnes@wfu.edu |
| John J. Curley | Modern and Contemporary | 105 | 758-5080 | curleyjj@wfu.edu |
| David Lubin | American Visual Art and Film | 104 | 758-6013 | lubin@wfu.edu |
| Morna E. ONeill | 18th/19th Century European Art | 110D | 758-3925 | oneillme@wfu.edu |
| Harry Titus | Ancient & Medieval Architecture | 107 | 758-5081 | titus@wfu.edu |
| Chanchal Dadlani | Islamic / South Asian Art and Architecture | 108 | 758-5079 | dadlani@wfu.edu |
| Margaret S. Smith | Emeritus |
n/a | n/a | smith@wfu.edu |
Contact:
Office Phone - 336.758.5310
Fax - 336.758.6014
Email - herrinmm@wfu.edu
Department of Art
Box 7232 Reynolda Station
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109