The study of art and art history significantly enriches a liberal-arts education, especially in a world that is increasingly shaped by images and the exchange of visual information through a variety of media. The Department's two majors, one in art history and the other in studio art, prepare individuals for a lifelong engagement with visual culture by providing a grounding in the methodological, technical, expressive and analytical skills employed by artists and art historians.
On Friday, January 7th at the Alton Ellis/ Trench Town Community Center in Kingston, Jamaica, the film "Born in Trench Town," was shown to an enthusiastic crowd of over one hundred and fifty local residents. Kids, adults, Sewanee students and staff gathered to view the film, produced by Professor Greg Pond.
JUMP: Photographs from Kingston, Jamaica. On view at Stirling’s Gallery, January 16 - March 25, 2012. Opening reception Thursday, February 2, 4:00-5:30. Sewanee, Tennessee. Photographs by Rachel Nance Malde (c2000), taken in the Trenchtown and Riverton neighborhoods of Kingston, while accompanying a University of the South outreach trip in January of 2011. "The Outreach program has a long connection with these neighborhoods, and as a result, I met community leaders, teachers, and families that I would not have known otherwise." In March of this year, Malde and a colleague will travel with eleven students from St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School to Kingston on another service trip with plans to reconnect with some of the children she met there a year ago. Proceeds from the sales of these photographs will support the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School service trip to Kingston.
In 2007 and 2008, Sewanee students and photographers Paul Dixon and Lexi Namer traveled to Peru and Sierra Leone with the hope that photography could heal the scars of violence. Dixon traveled to Sierra Leone to work with iEarn, an organization in the capital of Freetown that uses education to rehabilitate youth who have suffered from war and its effects. Namer worked in Ayacucho with La Casa Hogar Los Gorriones, an orphanage in the poorest district of the town, taking in children from broken, weakened, and dysfunctional families, many of whom are disabled. February 21 – March 9, 2012 at The Wix Lounge, NYC Opening reception February 23: RSVP
In 2007 and 2008, Sewanee aliumni and photographers Paul Dixon and Lexi Namer traveled to Peru and Sierra Leone with the hope that photography could heal the scars of violence. Dixon traveled to Sierra Leone to work with iEarn, an organization in the capital of Freetown that uses education to rehabilitate youth who have suffered from war and its effects. Namer worked in Ayacucho with La Casa Hogar Los Gorriones, an orphanage in the poorest district of the town, taking in children from broken, weakened, and dysfunctional families, many of whom are disabled. 100% of the proceeds made from the exhibition will be donated to La Casa Hogar Los Gorriones and iEarn to continue to aid and uplift these children in their struggle to move past their region’s violent pasts.
