A highlight of the art history curriculum is the Exhibition Seminar, a rare opportunity for undergraduate students to curate a professional exhibition using objects in the Grinnell College Art Collection. The seminar culminates in a show in the Faulconer Gallery and in the publication of a catalogue students have researched, written, and produced. Links to sample pages from previous Exhibition Seminar catalogues are below.
Students are currently planning an exhibition of portable arts (manuscripts, textiles, ceramics) of the pre-modern Eastern Mediterranean and Islamic world in the context of 19th and 20th century collecting practices. The exhibition will go up in January 2023 in the Grinnell College Museum of Art.
En Voyage
Hybridity and Vodou in Haitian Art
Jan. 25–March 18, 2018
Sample pages from the En Voyage catalog (PDF)
Repeat, Reveal, React: Identities in Flux
January 29-March 21, 2010
Sample pages from the Repeat, Reveal, React catalog (PDF)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Grandeur and Fantasy: Vision and Views of Rome
January 22-February 27, 2007
Sample pages from the Giovanni Battista Piranesi catalog (PDF)
I Saw It: The Invented Reality of
Goya's Disasters of War
August 13-September 12, 2004
Walking a Tightrope:
German Expressionist Printmaking 1904–1928
April 1-April 21, 2002
Ghost Dance: Exhibiting Paradox
January 28-March 17, 2000
In a New Light
African Art at Grinnell College
May 1-May 31, 1997