We're excited to announce that the Fine Arts Department is now the Visual and Performing Arts Department! The name update is accompanied by exciting changes in academic programs, including the addition of an Interarts major, a Music and Theatre comprehensive major, and an Interarts minor. Read on to learn more about what the 2021-2022 school year had in store for our students, faculty, and alumni!

This year's student exhibition featured impressive student art from Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Photography and Studio Arts courses. Awards were presented to three Photography and three Studio Arts students for particularly outstanding work.

Photography Award Winners

1st Prize -- Hannah Roche '25, "Dissociation"

2nd Prize -- Stephanie Hils '25, "Consumed"

3rd Prize -- Summer Telleri '25, "Liminal Space"

Studio Arts Award Winners

1st Prize -- Lia O’Riordan '23, "Exobotany Series"

2nd Prize -- Jo D’Alonzo '24, "skull"

3rd Prize -- Anastasia Stavropoulos '22, "Untitled"

• Julianna Capuano ’22 (Theatre major) was accepted into the Strasberg Acting Studio—a prestigious actor training studio in NYC.
• John Skahill '22 (Visual Arts ID major) was featured in the Delaplaine Arts Center 2022 Emerging Artists Exhibition with his drawing "Balcony."
• Tatiana Tamargo '21 (Art History & Writing ID major) will attend NYU's M.A. program for Visual Arts Administration. Tatiana was also the Art History medal winner for this year.
• Sara McAleer '20 (Art History major) graduated this year with an M.A. in Art History from Tufts University. She will be attending a certificate program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection in the fall.
• Anna DeBlasio ’15 (Theatre & English major) was cast at the Arden Theatre and Walnut Street Theatre (both top-tier LORT professional theatres in Philadelphia) this past winter and spring. She will also join AEA (Actor’s Equity Association—the professional union for actors and stage managers) this summer.
  
• Courtney Bancroft ‘08 (Art History & Psychology major) has been hired as the Director of Digital Behavioral Health at New York's largest health system, Northwell Health.
• Eileen Wold ‘00 (Studio Arts major) recently exhibited her work, “Arctic Amplification,” in a solo exhibit at Core Gallery, Seattle.

The Visual and Performing Arts Department has federal work study positions open in Music, Photography, Studio Arts, and Theatre! Interested students should submit their applications via Handshake at the beginning of the fall semester.