Artist House curator-in-residence Patricia Watts will present Art and the Ecology: Some Kind of Nature at 4:45 p.m. Feb. 22 at Cole Cinema. The Art and the Ecology lecture will focus on how contemporary artists are creating projects that partner with communities and environmental groups to make positive change. The lecture is sponsored by The Department of Art Find out more »
Black History Month exhibition to aid the College in examining its relationship with slavery
(St. Mary’s City, Md) Feb. 2, 2017 – An anonymous gift to St. Mary’s College of Maryland will aid the College with educating students and the public on its relationship with slavery. A couple who wish to remain anonymous donated shackles over the summer they discovered in a barn in the Chaptico, Md., area. The Find out more »
Carrie Patterson’s Exhibition Oct. 3-28 at Mary Baldwin College’s Hunt Gallery
Professor of Art Carrie Patterson’s exhibition “Light Box: New Work by Carrie Patterson” runs through Oct. 28 at Mary Baldwin College’s Hunt Gallery in Staunton, Va. Patterson’s artwork considers how color, form and line metaphorically measure the human condition as experienced through the body. “I paint to give expression to the experience of inhabiting Find out more »
ART SMP students create 20 works in just as many days
When student Haley Sieglein ’17 began the semester, she knew exactly what her year-long St. Mary’s Project would be. But after the ART SMP Marathon, the first portion of the SMP where students were asked to complete 20 works in 20 days, “My mind changed completely,” she said. The assignment tasked students to push themselves Find out more »
Art History Professor Joe Lucchesi’s Exhibit Opens at the Smithsonian
Joe Lucchesi, associate professor of art history at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and coordinator of the college’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, was consulting curator of “The Art of Romaine Brooks,” an exhibition that opened June 17 at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. The exhibition runs through October 2 and includes several of Find out more »
Andean Summer Study Tour
On May 14, St. Mary’s College of Maryland students and faculty set out for South America on the Andean Summer Study Tour. Led by Dr. Adriana Mariel Brodsky, associate professor of history, and Dr. Ruth Anne Phillips, visiting assistant professor of art history, the group explored the culture and history of Peru. Some of these Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Tiny House Project Gets Underway
Students will ‘think big and build small’ as they explore how, when, and where environmental studies and arts education converge to shape communities In September, a group of St. Mary’s College of Maryland students, along with high school students from the Forrest Career and Technology Center, began work on the construction of two tiny houses, Find out more »
One-Person Exhibition by Professor of Art Sue Johnson on Display through June 1
Professor of Art Sue Johnson’s latest exhibition, “Ready-Made Dream,” will be on display through June 1 at the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Art Center, in Fayetteville, Ark.
“Young at Art”
Talented young artists from St. Mary’s County schools have a new, local outlet to exhibit their creative works. The “Young at Art” exhibition, established by the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Boyden Gallery and Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program, represents an expansion in the partnership between arts programs at the college and St. Find out more »
Carrie Patterson Interviewed on Local Television
Associate Professor of Art Carrie Patterson was interviewed last week by MetroCast 10, a local community television channel for St. Mary’s County, at Yellow Door Art Studios in Leonardtown, Md. The interview focused on the impact Yellow Door, which Patterson owns, has had on the town of Leonardtown, the importance of Leonardtown as an art Find out more »