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Name and hometown?Isabel Smith (she/her/hers). St. Augustine, Florida.  Class year and major/minor?Class of 2024. Undecided but intended Communication Studies major, Gender and Sexuality Studies minor. Did you do anything this summer or during quarantine related to the arts?My parents are self-employed artists; my mom is a 2D mixed media artist and my dad manages the business and writes poems for each of my mom’s work. It wasn’t really a “job” per say, but I helped them where I could: curating social media posts, packaging art and taking it to the post office, and editing the website.   Why were you interested...

Ellen MuellerResist in Place (still), 2019Digital Video, 0:01:54On loan from the Artist On view in the E. Craig Wall, Jr. Academic Center from October 4 - November 21st, 2020. Please note: All buildings on campus, including the Wall Center, are only open to Davidson students, faculty, and staff due to the pandemic. We are planning to re-screen videos at a later date when the campus opens to the community! Sign up for our mailing list to stay in the loop. Ellen Mueller’s Resist in Place, which features airplanes and their condensation trails slicing across the sky in various directions, invokes a childlike sense of...

Philippe Halsman (American, 1906-1979)Anna Maria Alberghetti, 1961PhotographGift of F.A.P.A. II Philippe Halsman’s passion for photography began at age fifteen when he found an old camera of his father’s in the attic. He bought glass plates with money from his allowance and taught himself how to develop them in the bathroom of his home. As a young man, he studied engineering in Dresden, Germany, but after a trip to Paris for his sister’s wedding, he decided to abandon his degree and move to Paris to pursue photography. He wanted to fill a void he saw in the body of popular photography...

Name and hometown?Gabi Sarussi and I’m from Scottsdale, Arizona Class year and major/minor?I’m a senior Economics major and Studio Art minor. Did you do anything this summer or during quarantine related to the arts?This summer I had my first major commission for a painting, and started a personal art Instagram account. Follow me here for a look at what I’m currently up to! @gold.finch.designs Why were you interested in interning with the galleries?I’m really interested in pursuing a career within gallery/museum work after I graduate from Davidson, and always love being surrounded by artists and art.  What role does art...

Louise Nevelson (American, 1899-1988)Reflections IV, 1983Color etching, aquatint, and screenprint49.25 x 40.25 in inGift of Carol Quillen, Davidson College President, and George McLendon I first learned about Louise Nevelson’s works in Dr. Shaw Smith’s “Contemporary Art History” course. In the course, we focused on Nevelson’s assemblage sculptures, which place random items into grids, exploring order vs. chaos. We unpacked a lot of ideas when studying Nevelson’s monochrome sculptures, including synecdoche, a priori thinking, and oculesics. When viewing these works on the floor to ceiling projection in the Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center, what struck me the most, however,...