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April 27, 2015

Collective Bargaining: SCC Votes to Add to Scripps Collection

SCC members voted to include photography, prints, a Japanese theater costume, ceramics and artists’ books to the College’s collection of artworks.

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February 28, 2015

More Ideas about Art: Winter and Spring Talks Hosted by the Williamson

Intriguing presentations, on a variety topics, await you!

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July 6, 2014

Conserving Works of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Rare and valuable Chinese paintings from the 16th through 19th centuries are being conserved and used for teaching and exhibitions at Scripps.

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Picturing Mexico: Alfredo Ramos Martinez Symposium Video and Summary

A summary of the recent Williamson Gallery symposium on Martínez, held at Scripps.

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April 7, 2014

Andy Warhol Prints Gifted to Scripps College

Andy Warhol, Ingrid Bergman (The Nun), 1983 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Following Andy Warhol’s lead, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. continues to surprise and delight. In 2008, Scripps College received an astonishing gift of 150 Warhol works, including 50 silver gelatin prints, as part of […]

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The Big Picture: Photographs and Archives of Aperture Cofounder Go to Scripps

Image: Edward Weston at Rhyolite, Nevada, 1948 by Dody Weston Thompson, Thompson Family Trust, c. 2012 Scripps College is delighted to announce the recent gift of 461 photographs by mid-century American photographer Dody Weston Thompson. A key participant in the West Coast photography movement, Weston Thompson was also a major chronicler of that era. The […]

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MISC. – Scripps Senior Exhibition 2014 Open through May 18

Responsible for every aspect of the exhibition, seniors take on many challenges as they create an exhibition of their work, bringing their undergraduate studies in studio art to a strong finish.

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March 24, 2014

Drowning in Drought: Williamson Interns’ Exhibition at Gallery 112 through April 11

The Williamson Gallery’s interns have teamed up to create an exhibition on a theme of their choosing.

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November 14, 2013

Ansel Adams Museum Set: Stunning Addition to the Scripps Collection

Between 1978 and his death in 1984, Ansel Adams created a special inventory of photographic prints of the pieces he considered to be his finest and most iconic. One of these sets has found a home at Scripps.

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Williamson Awarded Grant from the NEA

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced that the Williamson Gallery is among those organizations to receive an NEA Art Works grant to conserve four Chinese textiles in the Scripps art collection, the oldest dating from the late sixteenth to early seventeenth century.

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