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Senior Experience

Senior Projects

All senior art concentrators embark on an intensive two-semester senior project. The culmination of the year’s work is the annual spring student exhibition in Hamilton’s Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art. You can view the works of our students from the Class of 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012. Senior art concentrator students are assigned a semi-private studio space. The studio is supported by a state of the art ventilation system, zoned lighting, a private spray booth, a safety kleen unit, fire cabinets, and a variety of tools and materials for general use. The success of this program depends on rigorous pursuit of independent production of works of art, both object based and visual incidents.

Faculty and peers provide students with strategies for getting started and for maintaining stamina, but the responsibility for production rests with the student artists. Individual group critiques provide opportunities for students to discuss works-in-progress with their peers and faculty members. Studio work is further supplemented with lectures, technical demonstrations, discussions, research and engagement with visiting artists and those artists’ studio practices.

New York City Studio Tour

Each year, the art senior concentrators and faculty visit the studios of world-renowned artists in New York City. Since 2009 we have visited over 35 artist studios. Below is a slide show of images from many of our trips. You can also read about the trips from 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, fall 2013, spring 2013, 2011, 2010, and 2009.