Welcome to Art and Art History at Georgetown!
The Department of Art and Art History invites all students to explore the worlds of creating, interpreting, and exhibiting art, which has always stood near the heart of human culture and inquiry. Our students and faculty pursue creative work and research to illuminate art’s history and future with rigor, nuance, and imagination.
Our disciplines deeply embody Georgetown University’s dedication to creating and communicating knowledge. Art can articulate and interpret ideas about ourselves, communities, histories, beliefs, politics, and environments in ways that are exceptionally direct. Students work with objects, make things, and grapple with forms and ideas across time and geography. Visual literacy and cultural awareness are essential to informed, reflective, and effective engagement in the modern world.
The Department offers a BA in Art (Studio Practice) and in Art History, and a Master of Arts in Art and Museum Studies. Each year we welcome more than 600 students in a great variety of courses, ranging from Animation through Zen Buddhist Art. All of our classes are small enough to allow for intensive instruction and wide-ranging discussion.
Our students and faculty regularly study and work in Washington’s extraordinary museums and galleries, including our own Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery and Lucille M. and Richard F.X. Spagnuolo Gallery.
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BG Muhn Lecture in Tokyo, Friday June 3rd — “Pyongyang Art, Chosonhwa: Is it for Revolution or for Art?”
June 22nd, 2022
On June 3rd , 2022 , Professor Muhn presented on the Japanese publication of his book North Korean Art : The Enigmatic World of Chosonhwa ( 2021 ), the culminati…
Analyzing Ceramics Sheds Light on Xenophobia, 1300 Years Too Late
June 17th, 2022
Original Georgetown College News post , from June 7th 2022 : Analyzing Ceramics Sheds Light on Xenophobia , 1300 Years Too Late . Sancai ceramics that Zheng anal…
The 30th Misty Dailey Awards Ceremony
April 26th, 2022
On Thursday , April 21st , we celebrated our students at the 30th annual Misty Dailey Awards . Together with the Dailey Family , the Art and Art History Departm…
Art History and History double-major Xin Zheng (C’23) will present a paper at the SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium
April 8th, 2022
Art History and History double – major Xin Zheng ( C ‘ 23 ) will present a paper titled ” Cultural Others : An Examination of how the Chinese Viewed Foreigners Du…
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