Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Art and Art History Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2025
Katrin Birk, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Explorations of Life (Through the Forms of Those Less Loved)
Mariko Bolton, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Ghosts
Ethan Cline, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, The Experience Machine
Maya Keeney, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, True Colors: Exploring Performance and the Authentic Self
Abbi Vosen, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Mind Place
Submissions from 2024
Seven Delgado, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Familia Descocida
Grace Hanson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Fluttering and Falling
Hsar Sar Lwin, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Go Go
Ren D. Manuel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Painting Punctum
Ren D. Manuel, Art History (ARTH) 2024, Separating the Body of Christ from the Body of a Jewish Man: The Non-circumcision of Christ in Art of the Italian Renaissance
Brett Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Reasonably Rural: Non-Narrative in Print
Brett Olson, Art History (ARTH) 2024, “Stephen Varble: Alternative Approaches to the Waste Crisis”
Sophie Rast, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, The Ant Hill
Maddie Smith, Art History (ARTH) 2024, El Sueño de La Malinche: A Woman’s Body under Construction
Hannah Ward, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, To Be and To Love
Eleanor Weston, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Shoreline and Canoe Watercolors
Submissions from 2023
Hannah Babcock, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Body and place
Eledon Beyene, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Eledon's Fall Comps
Sawyer Blair, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Wood and Clay: A Material Study
Robin Cheatham, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Reflection On Self
Nicolo Del Negro, Art History (ARTH) 2023, Peggy Guggenheim Matron of Modernism: How Friends, Money, Love, and Luck Forged an Art Collection
Eve Gorman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Gorman Studio Arts Comps Fall 2022
Elise Hudson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, The Feminine Grotesque
Kyosuke Imai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Remembering
Caroline Jimenez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Altered Perceptions
Tatiana Jimenez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Humans and Nature
Joella Lai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Abstraction of Movement
Arianna Lone, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Dots & Loops
Emily Luna, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Untitled (family portrait collage)
Sidra Michael, Art History (ARTH) 2023, Inventing a “Self”: An Exploration of the Self-Portraiture of Nicolas Poussin and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Rylyn Monahan, Art History (ARTH) 2023, War, Art and Memory: The Tensions between Historical Accuracy and Mythmaking in the Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama
Sam Nelson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, when the weather has been above freezing for a week I am going to buy baba ghanoush
Neda Tehrani, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Nostalgia, Memory, and Illusions of the Past
Erin Timmins, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Who Are You When No One Is Watching?
Isaiah Vijil, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Untitled
Magdalena Worman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Empty White Space
Submissions from 2022
Michael Albrecht, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Lou
Daniel Ashurst, Art History (ARTH) 2022, Stabilizing Mountains, Numinous Rivers: Reclusive Shanshui at the Song Court
Maia Danks, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Making Connections Through Functional Design
Esme Graham, Art History (ARTH) 2022, Animal Harm: The Inclusion of Animal Cruelty in Contemporary Art
Grace Lee, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, The Extra(Ordinary)
Adam Nakasaka, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Revisited
Ben Perry, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Figure Gestures in India Ink
Tyrone Quigley, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Seeing the Figure
Mattison Shreero, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, The Museum of Cosmic Warning
Caroline Tsui, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Keep Calm And Choose Lead: A Graphic Novel
Submissions from 2021
Isabel Arevalo, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Pain as Transformation: Healing in the Body
Lydia Chau, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, On Dealing with the Aftermath
Maris Daleo, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Victims of Humanity
Claire Dettelbach, Art History (ARTH) 2021, Ecstatic Exhaustion: Ignatian Spirituality and Orazio Gentileschi's Paintings of Saint Francis in Ecstasy
Tyrell Floyd, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Penjamonial
Beatriz Furtado, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Studio Art Comps Project
Cedar Heffelfinger, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Mending
Mash Ibtesum, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Irradiance
Brennan Johnson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Dreaming, Dying
Emma Korosei, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Bean Fish
Laura McCarron, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Laura McCarron's Studio Art Comps
Zach McCrary, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Weight
Andie Nakahira, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Crying Over Spilled Kombucha
Sophia Rogers, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, things i hold onto when i get worried it'll all go away
Sophia Rogers, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, You used to say our freckles were angel's kisses
Irene Stoutland, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Constructed Nature
Martha Sudderth, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Baby Teeth
Sean Topel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Studio Art Comps Sean Topel
Emily Wight, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, A Story Through Scars
Gavin Young, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, The bowl as an Intimate Object
Gabriela A. Zegarra Sam, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Happy birthday, over the years
Yifei Zhu, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, What If
Submissions from 2020
Bea Crow, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Studio Comps
Avery Davis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Large Scale Figure Drawing
Avery Davis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Trans Utopias
Celeste Gaughan, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, I Want To Show You Something
Marietta Geist, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, A Ring
Graham Kaegi, Art History (ARTH) 2020, Sustainable Critical Regionalism: Rick Joy and Ethical Architecture
Jin Kim, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Gehenna, or, a map of love and death
Jean Liang, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Digital Figure Studies
Junyi Min, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Majulah Singapura
Maya Powell, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Repeated Refrains of Nature
Molly Sandweiss, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Cracks and Chaos: Finding Meaning in an Infinite Universe
Florence Solomon, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Beauty From Ashes
Anna Stubbs, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Exploration in Plywood, Paint, and Figures
Mika Takamori, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Stasis of Unresolved Conflicts Within the Mundane
Submissions from 2019
Levi Atkinson, Art History (ARTH); Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, Untitled (44.623731, -122.723401)
Hannah Hemmerly, Art History (ARTH) 2019, Reimagining Our Domestic Lifestyle: Philip Johnson and The Glass House
Xinyi Liu, Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, The Possession Pills & Harmony
Stephan Snyder, Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, Remnants
Justine Szafran, Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, Ink Wash Documentation
Elaine Tian, Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, Anatomize, Atomize, Me
Patrick Wigent, Art History (ARTH) 2019, Towards A Network Aesthetics: The Power of Art in a Neoliberal Age
Amanda Zeilinger, Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, Closeness Generator
Amanda Zeilinger, Art History (ARTH) 2019, Watching You, Watching Me: the intersection of legality and ethics In Arne Svenson’s 2013 series “The Neighbors”
Submissions from 2018
Benjamin Nicholas Alexander, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, The Language of Architecture
Lori Valesca Barrientos Sanchez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, III. beginning
Brandon Allen Carrillo, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, dysphoric
Lynn Nicole Daniel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Afterimage
Madeline Kennedy Garcia, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Mental Spaces I,II,III
Walker Johnston, Art History (ARTH) 2018, Arts Factories is France: A New Conception of the Role of the Artist in Society
Daihui Meng, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Untitled
Alex John Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Folds and Facets: The Functional Form
Peycen Ouyang, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Untitled
