This year’s Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition, running June 9 – 25 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, features student work from across the College of Letters and Science. Thirty graduate students from history, performance studies, English, design, art history and art studio will present their research exploring the pressing issues of our time, including environmental destruction, racism and immigration, while offering both practical and idealistic ways of thinking about and solving problems, or engaging with personal experiences, memory and aesthetic practices.  

At the opening reception June 9 from 6 to 9 p.m., winners of the LeShelle & Gary May Art Purchase Prize, the Keister & Allen Art Purchase Prize, and Savageau Award in the Department of Design will be announced. The following day, on Friday, June 9, art history students will present their theses in the Art History Graduate Symposium from 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum.

Participating Students

ART HISTORY:  Simone Gage, Hunter Kiley, Xuying Liu, Hannah Thompson, Srđan Tunić and Sienna Weldon

ART STUDIO:  Jordan Benton, Justine Di Fiore, Alberto Hamonet, Will Maxen, Sam Rathbun and Luka Vergoz

CREATIVE WRITING: Jake Rose

DESIGN:  Hafsa Akter, Valeria Diana Araiza, Cristina Gomez, Nilou Maleki, Justin Marsh, Ouinessa Stibbins, Alejandra Ruiz Suarez, Pachia Lucy Vang, Ofelia Viloche, Marcy Wacker and Rova Cigdem Yilmaz

ENGLISH: Allison Fulton and Grace Hayes

HISTORY: Zehra Ilhan

PERFORMANCE STUDIES:  Avital Meshi, Maurice Moore and Eric Taggart