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Pomona’s Department of Art and Art History provides two distinct curricula—in the practice of art and in the history of art.
The goal of the studio art program is to help students develop the skills and concepts they need to engage with and create works of art throughout their lives. We offer courses in sculpture, painting, drawing, photography,
digital art, and computer graphics; courses in other media are available in the Claremont consortium of colleges. Classes are small and students are encouraged to interact with professors both during and after instruction.
A global outlook and a sensitivity to ethnic and gender diversity mark the offerings in art history. Pomona, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges cooperate in setting up this program, which treats the making of art widely across time and space. We offer courses in the history of African, Asian, European, and North American art. Recent course titles include: Art and Activism; Holy Men, Holy Women, Relics, and Icons; History of Cities, East and West; Social History of North American Art; Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation; and Monuments of Asia.
The Pomona College Museum of Art brings historic and contemporary national and international exhibitions to the campus and is the site of
the annual senior exhibition. Senior majors in studio art mount an exhibition of their work as part of their graduation requirements. In addition, four other galleries on the Claremont campuses, as well as the gallery at Claremont Graduate University and several small student galleries, create a vigorous Claremont art scene and ample opportunity for students to exhibit their work.
Faculty members are selected both for their dedication to teaching and their contribution to their fields. The department values interdisciplinary approaches in both studio art and art history, and fosters an environment of cooperation and exchange both within the Claremont Colleges and with institutions throughout the world. Faculty travel widely as they engage in research; and students do too! They are especially encouraged to study abroad.
Judson Emerick studies Ancient and Medieval art, especially architecture and fresco painting in Italy; each year he teaches a course on the history of art history. Jennifer Friedlander offers courses in Media Studies and contemporary art. Phyllis Jackson teaches the art and film of Africa and of artists of African descent in the Americas. George Gorse teaches courses on Renaissance and Baroque art, on the history of cities and gardens, and on issues of gender and the body in Early Modern art. Frances Pohl focuses on the social history of North American Art (Native American traditions; Canada, the U.S., and Mexico) from the sixteenth-century to the present. The museum director, Kathleen Howe, teaches a popular course on the history of photography. Not only does Sheila Pinkel teach photography, but she offers a course on computer graphics as well. Mark Allen, who teaches digital art, invites all to visit at Machine Project in Los Angeles, the famous lab for art, technology, literature, and music that he directs. Sandeep Mukherjee, who teaches painting, explores a wide range of cultures, genres, and media in his work. Michael O’Malley, sculptor, treats people’s shifting relations to the built environment. “I build sculptures and installations,” he says, “that frame the human body in a particular way.” Mercedes Teixido, responsible for the department’s offerings in drawing, is a respected installation artist.
Pomona graduate James Turrell ’65 was among several outstanding Americans who received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” Award in 1984, one of the first two visual artists ever to win the prestigious prize. Claire Issacs ’54 recently retired as director of cultural affairs for the city of San Francisco. Jane Livingston '65 once served as the associate director and chief curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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