Student Picks

Student Picks Highlights

To celebrate the new year of student exhibitions, we’re highlighting pictures and blog posts from past Student Picks shows.

students standing in an art gallery. prints propped up on a table and on a cabinet

Student Picks: From Tissot to Toulouse-Lautrec - Fashion Focus in 19th-century French Art

From Degas’ depiction of dancers, to Mary Cassatt’s rendition of social life and mother-daughter bonds, to Toulouse-Lautrec’s images of prostitutes at the Moulin Rouge, they all allow us to muse over the garments worn at the time by every kind of person in the social spectrum.

Student Picks: Beauty by Design - The Art of Japanese Kimono

While working on a project which involved researching feudal Japanese costume, I fell in love with the beautiful and exotic Japanese kimonos.

woman wearing kimono, holding a tiered lacquer box; upper right corner has a book open to an illustration of a chapter from the "Tale of Genji"

Student Picks: Details - Finding Patterns in Nature

If you ever think your life has become uneventful, and your everyday activities lose their excitement, think again.

Student Picks: Conceal/Reveal – The Exquisite Art of Masking and Costuming

Through the guise of costuming and masking, people are allowed freedom otherwise inaccessible.

portrait of white man wearing dark clothes and a mask

Student Picks: Between the Lines – Image and Prose in the 20th Century Avant-Garde

By combining each artwork with poems, prose, and quotes from authors from the same period, 'Between the Lines' gives the viewer a new perspective on the influential and interpretive relationship between 20th century art and literature.

two stylized stick-like figures standing; figures are blue and orange; white background surrounded by blue

Announcing the 2012-2013 Student Picks Winners!

Congratulations to this year’s Student Picks curators!

wooden table with a red bucket on it, full of colorful slips of paper

Announcing Student Picks Winners 2011-2012

Congratulations to the Student Picks winners for the 2011–2012 academic year!

woman stands next to a red bucket reading a slip of paper

Student Picks: Women, Woodblock Prints and Words

The staff of the Cunningham Center gave me an opportunity to develop, shape and curate an exhibition that was a transformational experience for me.

upper half of image with partial sun and radiating beams; lower half line drawing of sideways face with eye, nose, and mouth all connected with one line; small specks emanating from eyelashes

Student Picks: Who Is She, Really?

I decided to center my show on “questions”: questions the artists ask, questions I posed, and questions the viewer might ask.

black woman seated on bed wearing white dress and holding a cigarette, legs spread open, text between her legs: "Portrait of a woman who has / fallen from grace and into / the hands of evil."