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Juasline Plasencia ’23 is using a summer research grant from the College to teach art online to students at Miami Southridge High School — and provide them with art supplies. She plans to share the students’ artwork on social media.

To his surprise, William Salzillo, Kevin W. Kennedy Professor of Art and department chair, realized fairly early on that the move to online courses has forever changed how he teaches, which he’s done on the Hill since he began at Kirkland College in 1973.

After graduation, art history major Lila Reid ’20 will spend the year as an intern at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center in Massachusetts. The paid opportunity will provide her with the experience necessary to study art conservation at the graduate level.

Students in the “From Collecting to Curating: American Art, 1900 to 1950” class taught by Associate Professor of Art Robert Knight and Michael Shapiro ’71, former museum director of the High Museum of Art, were tasked with making an acquisition pitch on behalf of the Wellin Museum.

Sime’s piece titled Flowers & Roots, located on the Wellin’s Selch Terrace, is made out of bronze, cement, and repurposed technological elements like computer motherboards and electrical wire.

Maximiliano Hernandez-Zapata ’19 is only 22 but he’s old-school when it comes to photography. His passion for analog photography has paid off for him as the recipient of the College’s Bristol Fellowship for his project “Preservation or Revival: Exploring Contemporary Analog Photography.”

Participating in the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art docent program has opened quite a few doors this summer for Hamilton students including at the Smithsonian, Guggenheim, American Museum of Natural History, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary (ICA) Art in Boston.

Participating in the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art docent program has opened quite a few doors this summer for Hamilton students including at the Smithsonian, Guggenheim, American Museum of Natural History, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary (ICA) Art in Boston.

Sixteen Hamilton students have received creativity grants from the Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Fund, which provides funds for projects displaying originality, expressiveness and imagination.

As a student art assistant in the Kennedy Arts Center, Marisabel Rey ’19 spent hours loading and unloading kilns in the ceramics studio. Her interest grew, and eventually she would devote a summer to exploring the glazing process.