Franklin & Marshall College

The Department of Art and Art History plans an evening of dinner and discussion on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 6-8 p.m. at the Huegel Alumni House.

Art History major Ellen Kecskemethy '13, this year's winner of the Sophomore Summer Foreign Travel Award in Studio or Art History, will talk about her summer research on the art and architecture of the "clandestine churches" in Northern Europe.

Studio Art major Dan Deibler '12, the 2011 Junior Summer Study Award in Studio Art winner, will describe his summer experience studying video game design at Digipen Institute of Technology.

Art History major Judith Stapleton '12, a Marshall Scholar, will tell the group about her "Byzantine and Bloomsbury" summer project.

Art and Art History majors and minors and other interested students are invited to attend the dinner and presentations.

Claire Giblin, Curator of Exhibitions at the Phillips Museum of Art, is again offering workshops for F&M art students who plan to exhibit their art in the spring student art show.

The "Framed!" workshops are geared to provide basic skills students will need for matting, mounting, framing and wiring their work. Claire will discuss methods of presentation, resources and cost of materials. Instruction and guidance for particular art works is also offered.

The first "Framed!" meeting is scheduled Tuesday, Oct. 11, 11:30 a.m.-12:35 p.m. in the Huegel Alumni House first floor seminar room.

The second meeting will be held Tuesday, Nov. 29, 11:30 a.m.-12:35 p.m. at the Phillips Museum of Art.

On September 23, Art and Art History alumna Jiayin "Gabby" She '11 assisted at the opening of the art exhibition "Half the Sky" at Drexel University. "Half the Sky" showcases more than 60 pieces of artwork by 22 Chinese women artists. Gabby translated for Fan Di'an, Director of the National Art Museum of China, who made the opening remarks.

On September 23, Art and Art History major Judith Stapleton '12 displayed her research poster at F&M's Autumn Research Fair. Judith's project, titled "Byzantine and Bloomsbury," explores the Bloomsbury Group's interest in Byzantine art which led to an observable influence on the pre-war British art scene.

This is not Judith's first experience delving into Byzantine art. In 2010, she was the winner of Art and Art History's Sophomore Summer Foreign Travel Award and used her funding that summer to travel to Ravenna, Rome and Venice, Italy, to view Byzantine art in situ.