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Ruth Asawa (American, 1926-2013)Untitled (S. 152), 1962Copper wireOn loan from the collection of Michael ’85 and Alison Hall Mauzé ‘84 Ruth Asawa, born in 1926 to Japanese immigrants, started life in California as the middle child of seven. Her parents were farmers, and she started working on the farm before and after school at the age of six. Growing up through the Great Depression, Asawa already had a difficult life on top of the discrimination she faced as a Japanese American. When World War II started, Asawa and the rest of her family were placed into internment camps in Arkansas....

Joyce Tenneson (American, b. 1945)Calla Lilies, 2020 23 x 18 inchesArchival pigment printGift of Scott and Carla MacLeod As you enter Chambers on your way to class, you might be in too much of a rush to notice the newly displayed artworks in the halls. However, as I left class (in less of a rush than usual) one specific work caught my eye. Calla Lilies by Joyce Tenneson is one of many artworks displayed in the vast halls of Chambers. Simply looking at the work, you feel mesmerized. The luminosity of the print leaves you to question your existence. Tenneson...

Lisa Kereszi (American, b. 1973)Eye on Door, Spook-A-Rama, Coney Island, Pennsylvania, 2007 30 x 40 inArchival pigment printGift of John Andrew MacMahon, Class of 1995 Lisa Kereszi’s Eye on Door, Spook-A-Rama, Coney Island, Pennsylvania is an everyday-eerie look at the reality of the escapist fantasy of haunted houses. The photograph depicts green double doors at the entrance, though only the front of one of the two doors is visible. The doors appear halfway open, haphazard, like something happened—something scary, unexpected, or unknown—and there was no time to close up. On the front of the door is a stylized, wide-eyed green...

For our next installment of "Profs Talk Art," we talked to Dr. Scott Denham, the chair of the German Studies Department. His research interests include German literary and cultural studies, translation, and questions of identity, loss and memory in the central European context. Dr. Denham talked about Käthe Kollwitz's lithograph Verbruderung, as well as Georgia Blizzard's sculpture Pozes and Roger Manley's photograph Georgia Blizzard. Watch the videos here and here (subtitles available). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBIc3ryXdc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNRFBBsxK4 What do you think of this work? We have over four thousand works spanning five centuries in our collection. If you want to see more of our...