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The Williams Center provides 5,000 square feet of instructional and studio space, including a lecture hall with state-of-the-art projection, video, and computer facilities, as well as an electronic seminar room. The Visual Resources Room contains a collection of more than 100,000 slides as well as CD-ROMs, videos, and architectural models. Student work is displayed throughout public spaces as well as in studios. The Williams Center Gallery exhibits artists of national and international repute in six or seven shows per academic year, presenting diverse media, historical periods, and cultures. Artists give public lectures, visit classes, and meet with independent study and honors students. The Media Lab facilitates the integration of technology into all aspects of the art curriculum. It has Macintosh workstations, color and laser printers, and flatbed and slide scanners. It is supplemented by a Macintosh workstation with a large- format scanner and printers in the Experimental Printmaking Institute and workstations in the Williams Visual Arts Building. The buildings are linked via ethernet, allowing students to generate, manipulate, and output images from any site. The Printmaking Studio has etching, lithographic, and
silk-screen presses. The Experimental Printmaking Institute provides students
and visiting professional artists with the opportunity to develop advanced
skills in the areas of printmaking and digital imaging. Students have done internships or volunteered at the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sotheby's, M-13 Gallery, and the Rosa Esman Gallery. They have served as apprentices to painters such as Richard Anuszkiewicz and Dorothea Rockburne. Locally, they have surveyed the art and architecture of Easton and Bethlehem, and have organized exhibitions for area art galleries. Exhibitions and visiting artists have included Richard
Anuszkiewicz, Gregory Gillespie, Robert Rauchenberg, Ursula Von Rydingsvard,
Ann Hamilton, and Elizabeth
Murray. Art majors have pursued careers in filmmaking, journalism, advertising,
interior design, and fashion design as well as worked in art galleries
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FACULTY
MEMBERS |
ART
IS A VITAL AND FASCINATING record of collective
and individual creativity that both transcends and reflects time and culture.
The art department offers courses in art history and studio art to familiarize
students with that record. The major and minor enhance students' ability
to make critical judgments about it, develop artistic talent, and heighten
visual perception. The curriculum is a combined studio/art history course
sequence in which students may concentrate in an area of interest. Students
work closely with departmental faculty as well as visiting artists. The
program's unique character and vitality are based on the opportunity to
work one-on-one with professors (profiled here) who are accomplished and
engaged and have exhibited and published widely.
