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Joe Lucchesi, Chair
Associate Professor of Art History
Phone: 240-895-4248
Email: jelucchesi@smcm.edu
Office Staff: 240-895-4225
Alumni Where are they now?
Jacob Lewis (art history, 2002) is currently living in Paris while conducting dissertation research for his PhD (art history) from Northwestern University. Jacob was awarded a nationally-competitive Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship to support his research.
Facilities
Art Studios
The Art Department is located in Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center. Most of the studio classrooms are interconnected, making for an intimate working environment. Studio spaces include a sculpture studio with equipment for welding and woodworking, a painting studio, a drawing studio, a printmaking area with two presses, and two darkrooms. A photography lab in the Media Center provides students with additional darkroom and studio space. Art majors are alloted small individual work spaces in their senior year.
Digital Imaging Lab
The Montgomery Hall digital imaging lab houses 10 Macintosh G4 Dual Processor towers, flatbed scanners, a slide scanner, and several high-quality color printers. The lab serves many courses within the department, including scientific illustration, digital media offerings, and several art history courses. Students use the lab for creation of course assignments as well as independent projects.
In Addition, the Art Department also maintains a separate digital imaging lab that is primarily for Large format output. It houses an Epson 9600, two flatbed scanners, and a high-end multi-format film scanner. It also has DV deck and access to Final Cut Pro for digital editing.
Image Resources
Students have access to over a 1,000,000 art images from around the world through the St. Mary's Library's subscription to ARTStor, the world's largest and most comprehensive image database. In addition to ARTStor, the library has a wide range of art resources and databases designed to support students' original research in different cultures, eras, and media. To see more, click here.
Boyden Gallery
The the college's art gallery significantly enhances the department's programming, hosting a range of exhibitions featuring contemporary and historical art, as well as the annual All-Student Show and the art studio students' St. Mary's Project exhibitions. Boyden Gallery also offers a variety of visiting artist talks, scholarly lectures, workshops and other acticities.
Teaching Collection of Art
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