For the 21st year, the Williamson is offering paid internships. This year, there are six to choose from, encompassing work in art administration, conservation, and exhibitions.
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Summer Internships: Getty, Wilson and Turk Internships at the Williamson Gallery
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The Williamson Gallery Celebrates 20th Year of Getty Multicultural Internships
Initiated in the wake of Los Angeles’ civil unrest in 1992, the Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program seeks to increase diversity within the staffs of museums and visual arts organizations by offering paid internships to students of diverse backgrounds who either live or attend college in Los Angeles County. At Scripps, that mission is carried out in a variety of ways, including extensive hands-on work with the Scripps College art collection, interviews with professionals in the field, and a wide array of trips to the art meccas of Los Angeles.
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Ken Gonzales-Day
Run Up and About a hundred yards from the road are both photographs from Ken Gonzales-Day’s Searching for California’s Hang Trees series, part of the artist’s extensive work on the history of lynching in California, which also includes his photographic series, Erased Lynchings, and his book, Lynching in the West: 1850–1935. These projects share a common goal: complicating the viewer’s understanding of the history of racial violence in America.
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Nancy Macko
Macko came to a new understanding of the life cycle as a continuous process, rather than a series of discrete stages. Macko’s work encourages the viewer to join in this realization—to stop looking at childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age as separate phases, and to instead see the beautiful and surprising ways life’s phases overlap.
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Michael Kenna
This juxtaposition of man-made objects to the natural world displaces the viewer’s focus away from the natural elements to the manmade, ultimately creating a sense of balance. Kenna continues to baffle the viewer through his interesting use of perspective.
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Genji’s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Featured in this exhibition will be a rich array of woodblock prints by many of Japan’s leading artists on The Tale of Genji, which was written over 1,000 years ago by the Japanese court lady Murasaki Shikibu, and which has proven to be a great influence on Japanese culture.
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African-American Visions: Catalog
Accompanying the African American Visions exhibition is a catalog, which highlights works from the exhibition that are paired with short essays on the works, in large part written by the faculty of Scripps. An excerpt from the catalog on a recent gift to Scripps College follows.
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African-American Visions
In honor of Dr. Samella Lewis, Professor Emerita of Scripps College, this exhibition featured works from the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College and the personal collection of Samella Lewis. It focused on images by African American artists and other artists who address the African American experience.
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Summer Hiatus
The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery is closed for Summer 2012. We will reopen with the African-American Visions exhibition on September 1st, 2012.
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A Preview of Clay’s Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968
Take a break from studying for finals and delve into the LA art scene of the fifties with “A Preview of Clay’s Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968.” Mary MacNaughton, director of the Williamson Gallery and Associate Professor, Art History, Scripps, will give a preview of the upcoming exhibition at the [...]
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Williamson Gallery News
- Scripps College Presents Annual “Senior Art Show,” Showcasing Original Art by Students April 25, 2013
- Searching for the Perfect Red: Selections from the Scripps College Collections March 14, 2013
- “Denatured Nature” The 69th Scripps College Ceramic Annual January 3, 2013
- Nuremberg Chronicle Returns to Denison Library After Two-Year Conservation October 5, 2012
- A Woman With a Vision August 20, 2012
- Door Restore August 8, 2012
