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Hope College Department of Art and Art History

The department of art and art history teaches students the skills, theory, and practice to lead a creative life.

08/31/2026

Welcome back, students! We’re so glad to have you all back in De Pree, and we’re looking forward to see what you all create this semester!

08/28/2026

Professor Katherine Sullivan and senior studio art major Carlee Schafer have been hard at work in the studio for their research project, Trickster Is as Trickster Does: Exploring Hybrid Painting Techniques in the Creation of Hybrid Trickster Figures. We’re excited to see the final products of their research!

08/26/2026

De Pree Gallery will be closed on Thursday, August 27. We'll be back to our normal hours on Friday, August 28.

08/25/2026

Earlier this month, Professor Amelia Mendelsohn opened a group show at Krasl Art Center! The exhibition, titled Intervals of Mark and Matter, features paintings by Amelia and five other artists. Per Krasl Art Center’s description of the show:

“Drawing from personal and cultural narratives, the artists engage themes such as family, mythology, migration, and identity to construct works that feel both intimate and expansive. Across the exhibition, painting emerges as a living and expansive practice: one that does not simply depict, but questions, experiments, and reaches outward.”

The exhibition is open through November 7, so head down to St. Joseph, MI, to check it out!

08/24/2026

Sidewise is now open in De Pree Gallery! Stop by to check out the new exhibition by Maggie K. Barrett, our 2026 Borgeson Artist in Residence. The show will be open through September 25, and Barrett will give an artist talk that day at 5:30 pm in Cook Auditorium. Afterward, there will be a closing reception to celebrate the exhibition! Admission is free and open to the public.

08/19/2026

This summer, Professor Lisa Walcott and senior art education major Nico Kazlauskas worked in a cohort with poets, Professor Pablo Peschiera and Katie Barth, focusing on the creative practice and how collaboration within the arts affects character and virtue. Looking at public sculpture, Lisa and Nico experimented with various ways to translate their own practices into collaborative works, and vice versa. Lisa would participate in a weekly welding class in Kalamazoo, often combining the skills into her daily collage practice. Nico focused on combining his interest in film and writing into his sculpture practice. He had two shows in Chicago this summer and is leading a workshop with CSI titled, "Artifacts from Imagined Cinema".

08/17/2026

Our first exhibition of the new school year opens next week! The 2026 Borgeson Artist in Residence exhibition, Sidewise by Maggie K. Barrett will be open August 24–September 25. On September 25, Barrett will deliver an artist talk about her exhibition at 5:30 pm in Cook Auditorium here in De Pree Art Center, followed by a reception to celebrate the show.

In the eight weeks of the Borgeson residency, Barrett handmade each component of the show—from the paper for the prints, to the felted sheep’s wool that wraps the tunnel, and the welded metal of its structure. She’s curious about the weight of materials and the labor it takes to fabricate a mundane object, like a sports net. Through her work, she learns about the resources (time, money, skill, material) it takes to bring a thing into the world. It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t made something out of felt before; she can learn how to make it through weeks or months of research and practice. The exhibition explores ideas of permeability and access. While the title Net Fence implies sports, the piece functions as a barrier to movement. Agility Tunnel—inspired by the cross-species communication of the sheep, shepherd, and sheep dog—allows for passage, transformation, and/or a space to rest. In this installation, Barrett implicates her own body and the viewer's, calling attention to movement and offering an invitation to look up, crawl through, walk slowly, and touch.

The Borgeson Artist in Residence program was inaugurated in 2016 through the generosity and enthusiasm of Hope alumni Clarke ’72 and Nancy Rayner ’72 Borgeson.

08/14/2026

Since Dr. Anne Heath and senior art history major Signe Bieganski have both spent time in Vienna, their summer research project is about the medieval convent of Göss, which is located south of Vienna in Styria. Signe is working on a fresco program made in the 13th century located in the convent's St. Michael's chapel, which depicts imagery from Song of Songs that connects to female monasticism. Dr. Heath is focusing on a collection of 13th-century liturgical garments that were made by the women in the convent for celebration of the mass commemorating the abbey's founder, Adala. For both of them, this has been a summer of detective work, leaving no stone unturned!

08/03/2026

To begin their summer research project, Professor Katherine Sullivan and studio art major Carlee Schafer traveled to New York City, taking in a variety of exhibitions, including the Guggenheim's Carol Bove exhibit; "Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body" at the Museum of the Moving Image; "Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas“ at the Cloisters; "New Humans: Memories of the Future" at the New Museum; and "Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond" at the Met. They'll use what they observed during this trip to inform the work they create back here in De Pree during their project!

07/27/2026

Congrats to recent graduate Shannon Smith on having her work shown to a juried exhibition! Shannon’s piece, titled I Said We Were Sharing (Dúirt Mé Go Raibh Muid Ag Roinnt), was displayed at the Seattle Art Fair with TERAVARNA Gallery from July 23–26.

I Said We Were Sharing (Dúirt Mé Go Raibh Muid Ag Roinnt) is a series of six plates that feature photographs referencing the Great Famine in Ireland. This forced famine was created under British rule; the Irish people had plenty of food, but the British exported most of the crops, leaving them with a failed potato harvest. The photographs are representative images that capture different elements of the hunger, such as coffin ships, statues of starving people, and an image of Shannon in front of an archival photograph of her great-great-grandparents, who were born toward the end of the famine. Layered above the photographs are reference drawings based on historical prints from the Great Famine period, showing what was happening in Ireland at that time. The red patterns drawn on the plates’ edges reference lace patterns that women would create and sell to help support their families. The color red is used because green was not yet associated with Ireland and was considered unlucky, linked to the fae and the death during famine; red was a more readily available dye. The different layers shed light on the complex history of the Great Famine, revealing shared and personal connections that previously would not have been intertwined. The plates rest below your line of sight, inviting you to look more closely, as if you were sitting down and sharing stories around a table.

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275 Columbia Avenue
Holland, MI
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Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 4:30pm

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+16163957500

Website

https://hope.edu/academics/art-and-art-history/

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