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Can arts integration deepen students’ understanding?
Tue, 02 Aug 2022
A partnership between City of Rochester schools and the Memorial Art Gallery leads to innovation in arts education and furthers the museum's mission to serve the Greater Rochester community.
Continue ReadingScience under the microscope of visual art
Thu, 05 May 2022
An art and geology double major, University of Rochester student Gabrielle Meli brings scientific processes to her art.
Continue ReadingArtist Mizin Shin inspires change with printmaking
Thu, 07 Apr 2022
To combat anti-Asian hate, the Rochester professor has harnessed her love of a traditional art form combined with a digital sensibility.
Continue ReadingHow patents transformed the world of architecture
Thu, 08 Apr 2021
Associate professor of art history Peter Christensen has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim fellowship for his project exploring an understudied shift in architectural history.
Continue ReadingAn adapted classroom: Students and faculty find new ways to engage in teaching and learning
Fri, 18 Sep 2020
Students and faculty members adapt to new—and safety-conscious—ways of interacting as teachers, scholars, and researchers.
Continue ReadingRochester artists look to avant-garde past in new site-specific installation
Wed, 16 Sep 2020
Where traces of a once vibrant artistic residency program still stand, University art professor Allen Topolski and his artist daughter, Aster, seek to understand the present through what came before.
Continue ReadingA ‘different kind of wonder’
Wed, 27 May 2020
The European Renaissance’s engagement with the Arctic is a little-known chapter of history but a relevant one today, when the region once again has become a site of anxious attention.
Continue ReadingRochester historian takes a role in preserving world cultural heritage
Wed, 20 Nov 2019
Peter Christensen, an associate professor of art and art history at the University of Rochester, has a new role as a juror advising the United Nations in its work designating UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Continue ReadingStudents thrive at the intersections of engineering, computer science, and humanities
Wed, 09 Oct 2019
Seniors Melissa Wen, Nathan Nickerson, and Jarrod Young are this year's winners of the Wells Award, given each year to high-achieving students in the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who also excel in the humanities.
Continue ReadingA ‘model of scholarly possibility’: Remembering Douglas Crimp
Tue, 23 Jul 2019
An internationally renowned art and cultural critic, theorist, curator, and activist, Rochester professor Douglas Crimp created work important to thinkers across the arts and humanities.
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