Study abroad in Spain: The world as our classroom
Arts and CultureSUMMARY: Dukes bring art to life with dance; Madison Art Collection loans works to Ben Shahn exhibition
Professor Raymond Dingledine Jr. with students: Opportunities to study abroad were limited for the women of Madison College.
Dance and Music students led by Rubén Graciani, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, perform a choreographed dance in an interior courtyard of the famed Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid on Oct. 20, 2023.
Professor Laura Katzman, a Ben Shahn scholar, was invited by the Reina Sofía’s director to serve as guest curator of the art exhibition Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity / De la no conformidad.
“I was thrilled by the opportunity to bring 30 years of research to a project that would allow me to present Ben Shahn’s far-reaching artistic and social vision to vast numbers of international audiences on such a grand an prominent scale.” — Laura Katzman, professor of art history