Washington and Lee unveiled two new art exhibits in April. The installations bring unique points-of-view to the university’s art collection, with five Arab American artists’ work featured in Leyburn...
As part of Washington and Lee Museums’ Lunch and Learn Lecture Series, artist and professor Emma Steinkraus discussed her work, influences and ongoing concern with gender and the environment on March...
Emma Malinak, Arts & Life Editor
• February 14, 2023
Feb. 24 will mark the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Tania Kozachanska, ’26, wanted to ensure that as that date approached, she was doing everything she could to help her home...
Artist and Virginia Tech visual arts professor Sam Blanchard gave a lecture on Jan. 24 about his works installed in the latest exhibit of Washington and Lee’s Staniar Gallery.
His exhibit, titled “Futile...
Emma Malinak, Arts & Life Editor
• February 8, 2023
The Museums at Washington and Lee University opened two new exhibits on Feb. 1 to display the work of female ceramic artists from the global east and west.
“Born of Fire: Contemporary Japanese Women...
The phrase terra ignota, or “land unknown” in Latin, has historically been used by mapmakers to denote unexplored territory.
But for artist Amanda Lechner, featured in Washington and Lee’s Staniar...
Elliott King, professor of art history, gave a lecture on surrealism through the lens of artist Donald Nield on Jan. 18. Nield’s paintings are featured in Staniar Gallery’s “Donald Nield: American...
Creativity is now for a cause.
The recently launched Wilson Art Organization is an entirely student run organization that collects and sells student art works.
With the help of the Community Legal Practice...
Eliot Dudik, an eastern Virginia photographer who won the 2014 PhotoNola Prize and whose works have been recently featured on CNN, held an artist’s talk on Oct. 21 in Wilson Hall.
His large-scale photographs...
Capitalism is a tree trunk and an unfolded package of toothpaste, according to painter and artist Paul Ryan.
In order to discuss his career and his collection of paintings, the sun that never sets, that...
