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Art & Art History Reunion Open House
Alums, join us for Reunion Homecoming weekend! Reconnect with classmates, meet current faculty & students, and celebrate our department's community through a series of programs and exhibitions.
Book cover image courtesy of The University of Chicago Press. Portrait of Rose Salseda by Harrison Truong for Stanford University.
New book reflects artists’ perspectives on 1992 Los Angeles riots
In Unrest: Art in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, art scholar Rose Salseda chronicles intergenerational, cross-racial experiences through the prism of art.
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Velvet portraits and a video installation from ماه طلعت / Moon-faced shown as part of What Models Make Worlds: Critical Imaginaries of AI in 2023 at the Ford Foundation Gallery. Image courtesy of Ford Foundation Gallery.
How artists can ‘interrupt’ artificial intelligence
Stanford digital media artist Morehshin Allahyari uses AI in her studio and the classroom to bring creative, critical thinking to the use of the technology that is rapidly becoming ubiquitous.
The Department of Art & Art History is an interdisciplinary department offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in art history, art practice, film and media studies, and documentary film.
Art History
Art History is a discipline that strives to understand works of art, architecture, and design from a variety of perspectives, including the original context of their making and reception as well as their subsequent circulation, collection, conservation, and display. As culturally embedded expressions, works of art may yield multiple meanings depending on the kinds of research and interpretive strategies that art historians bring into play.
Learn more about the Art History program
Art Practice
The Art Practice program on both undergraduate and graduate levels offers production-based curriculum to prepare students for creative careers in the visual arts and to hone their creative capabilities. Access to diverse courses and faculty, cross-disciplinary interaction, and well-equipped labs are among the strengths of this flexible program.
Learn more about the Art Practice program
Documentary Film and Video
Students in the Documentary Film and Video Program become conversant with the documentary tradition as well as with alternative media and new directions in documentary. In addition to the training in documentary production, graduates gain substantive research skills in film criticism and film analysis. The MFA degree is designed to prepare students for professional careers in film, video, and digital media, with the qualifications to teach at the university level.
Film and Media Studies
The Bachelor of Arts in Film & Media Studies provides students with knowledge of film aesthetics, national cinematic traditions, modes of production in narrative, documentary, and experimental films, the incorporation of moving image media by contemporary artists, and the proliferation of new forms of digital media.
Opportunities
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Now accepting applications
The Department of Art & Art History invites applications for part-time lecturers who may be appointed to teach studio art courses at the lower and/or upper division level in media including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, digital and experimental media.
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450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Rm 252
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Bowes Art & Architecture Library (2nd floor)
Current Exhibitions
Electric Contrasts: The Art of the Detail brings together photobooks and magazines to show how the revolution of photography in the late 19th and early 20th century changed the history of…
Digital objects are often seen as alien to craft, as though no hands had shaped them. They can be copied endlessly and exactly, bereft of the maker’s touch.
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