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There is only one place that you could find a fashion runway, a flower crown display, and a coronavirus-themed collage all in one space — the Wellin Art Share.

The intersection of Hamilton’s introductory sociology course and the Wellin Museum’s spring exhibition resulted in student visual and audio projects that address social issues in unique ways.

The Wellin Museum of Art presents the exhibition SUM Artists: Visual Diagrams & Systems-Based Explorations from Feb. 15 through June 14, including 30 artists and artist collectives.

From questioning whether a coup should ever be labeled “good” to protesting recent immigration policies, opinions expressed by faculty appeared in major national publications via essays and letters to the editor throughout the year.

Students in the “From Collecting to Curating: American Art, 1900 to 1950” class taught by Associate Professor of Art Robert Knight and Michael Shapiro ’71, former museum director of the High Museum of Art, were tasked with making an acquisition pitch on behalf of the Wellin Museum.

Elias Sime, the artist whose exhibition Tightrope is on display at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, received the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art's 2019 African Art Award that recognizes "the best in contemporary African art" on Friday, Oct. 25, in Washington, D.C.

Karen Milbourne, curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, will deliver the Roehrick Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 4:30 p.m., in the Wellin Museum of Art’s Overlook room.

In a letter with the headline Intellectual Diversity in College, Wippman discussed political polarization on campuses and the importance of “encouraging students to develop certain habits of mind, habits that include testing their ideas, searching for evidence and learning to construct, critique and defend arguments, all of which require thoughtful consideration of opposing viewpoints.”

The first time Ethiopian artist Elias Sime saw a motherboard, he thought it looked like a landscape. Created by Sime and his collaborator, Meskerem Assegued, “Tightrope” is a commentary on humanity, technology, and the environment – and how the three interact. On Sept 7, the Wellin Museum not only celebrated the opening reception of “Tightrope,” but also welcomed Sime and Assegued (who acted as translator) to Hamilton as part of the Wellin’s Artists in Conversation series. Johnson-Pote Director of the Wellin Tracy Adler guided the conversation.

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College will present the work of contemporary Ethiopian artist Elias Sime (b. 1968) in an exhibition titled Elias Sime: Tightrope opening Saturday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Dec. 8.