About Arts at Emory

Visual Arts

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Art History

The Art History Department offers courses in the art and architecture of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, modern and contemporary Europe and the United States, the ancient Americas, Africa, and the African Diaspora. In cooperation with the Carlos Museum, the Art History Department brings well-known scholars and artists to campus through the Robert Lehman Art Lectures, the Lovis Corinth Lectureship, and the Art History Endowed Lecture.

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Department of Film Studies

The Department of Film Studies at Emory is an affiliate of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. Courses explore such topics as the history of film, film theory, filmmaking, criticism, and screenplay writing. Each semester, the department presents a series of 35mm feature films. Collectively called the Emory Cinematheque, the series represent a joint effort by Film Studies and Emory College to provide the Atlanta community with programs of important international films. The themes of the programs vary from semester to semester.

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Michael C. Carlos Museum

The collections of the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University span the globe and the centuries. Housed in a distinguished building by renowned architect Michael Graves, the Carlos maintains the largest collection of ancient art in the Southeast with objects from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. The Museum is also home to collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sub-Saharan African art and European and American works on paper from the Renaissance to the present day.

The Carlos Museum works with Emory faculty to develop unique special exhibitions that draw on collections from around the world to engage the public and contribute to current scholarship. The Museum also mounts exciting traveling exhibitions developed by its own curators and other institutions.

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Schatten Gallery of the Woodruff Library

The Schatten Gallery, housed in the Woodruff Library, provides a creative venue for exhibitions of an educational nature that benefit the interests of Emory’s academic community and culturally enrich both campus and community life. Many exhibitions are drawn from the Woodruff Library Special Collections. Through collaboration with outside cultural organizations as well as scholars, programs, and departments within the university, the Schatten Gallery provides an opportunity to show more visual aspects of a wide range of scholarly interests and often mounts exhibitions in conjunction with university lectures, symposia, conferences, and cultural festivals held on campus. Recent exhibitions include The Life and Times of William L. Dawson, Music of Social Change, Avoda: Objects of the Spirit (Jewish ceremonial objects), and Beneath the Banyan Tree: Ritual, Remembrance, and Storytelling in Performed Indian Folk Arts.

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Visual Arts Program

The Visual Arts Program presents exhibitions, courses, programs, and lectures in drawing and painting, ceramics, sculpture, film and video, and photography. In all areas, emphasis is placed on the creation of work of a personal and exploratory nature. Student and professional works are regularly exhibited in the Visual Arts Building and Gallery, which opened in April 2005, and elsewhere on the Emory University campus. Guest artists are engaged for lectures several times per year. In 2003, the Visual Arts Program presented the Emory Chairs Project, a contemporary exhibition in which nationally and internationally recognized artists, Emory students, and faculty created chair sculpture that was displayed in more than 20 locations on campus.

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