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Members of Hamilton’s Class of 2024 have walked off the Commencement stage, canes in hand, and out into the world ready to make a difference.

The Wellin Museum of Art exhibition René Treviño: Stab of Guilt, which runs through June 9, offers an exuberant selection of works with wide-ranging themes that illuminate the artist’s colorful and complex aesthetic. Included among the new work on display are 20 mixed-media collages that incorporate imagery from 19th-century star charts made by C.H.F. Peters, Hamilton’s first professor of astronomy.

A chance foray into a ceramics class at Hamilton transformed the intended career path for Mark Castro ’05, director of curatorial affairs at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va.

Since relaunching in 2021, the Pottery Club has become one the largest clubs at Hamilton with more than 200 members. Each week the five club leaders, Sophie Crehan ’24, Alya MacDonald ’25, Izabo Ramos ’25, Eva Pearlman ’25, and Julian Jacobs ’24, accompany nine fellow members to the Kirkland Art Center (KAC) in Clinton where they take part in ceramic wheel throwing.

Amy Harff ’21, Jiin Jeong ’21, and Liam Prum ’21 have been named Watson Fellows, with each receiving a $36,000 stipend to pursue a “year of independent, purposeful exploration” abroad. The prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is awarded to graduating seniors nominated by one of 41 partner institutions.

With a grant from Hamilton, Charlotte Guterman ’22 spent a summer researching the colonization of the American landscape in art.

For those staying on campus during fall break and who enjoy experimental film, the Capitol Theatre in Rome, N.Y., will be screening locally produced short films including animated films created last year in Hamilton’s film animation class on Thursday, Oct. 17.

An exhibition of paintings by Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead opens Friday, Aug. 2, at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, New York.

Eight individuals have received fellowships focused on innovations in digital pedagogy under a new program sponsored jointly by the Dean of Faculty and the Library Information Technology Services (LITS).

Inspired an Introduction to Photography class last year, sophomore Amy Harff used her acquired skills to examine and document the different facets of food waste in her Adirondack Program independent research project this past fall