Posts by Katherine Smith

September 30 Lindsey Walsworth ’05, architectural historian and cultural resources specialist Lindsey Walsworth ’05 delivered an engaging talk on the history of historic preservation in the US, with emphases on contributions from women and developments in the South. This introduction…

September 23 Students in Building on Dana are studying 19 areas in and around the Dana Fine Arts Building. They selected areas and made sculptural prototypes to try on the floorplan. We are aiming for a spatial models of areas…

Heather Ligler, PhD, AIA, Assistant Professor and Foundations Coordinator of the School of Architecture, Florida Atlantic University September 23 Heather Ligler, who has worked with Mr. Portman and studied his architecture as an historian, introduced the shape grammar of Entelechy…

September 16 Students in 3D Thinking made a 1in:1ft scale floorplan of the first floor to try in the space, with a few practice forms. Great start; we'll likely have reduce the size a bit.

Christina Crawford, MArch, PhD, Art History, Emory University September 16 Christina Crawford, our first guest speaker, provided an outstanding introduction to our class in an overview of John Portman’s career in the context of postwar urban development in Atlanta. Her…

September 15: opening celebration A generous grant from Jeanne ’55 and Carroll Berry, which includes their library of books on The Irascibles and mid-century abstraction, has allowed us to recreate the reading area that was original to the building, on…

September 13 With Prof. Tina Pippin, Religious Studies, and Rachel Cochran, Director of Development & Program Evaluation and Co-Founder, Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance, we planted seeds for winter sowing, with the goal of including them in our gardens in the…

September 9 We spent the day getting to know our new spaces and marveling at the Dana Art Library & Reading Room, which is almost ready! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper…

July 2024 In fall 2023, Agnes Scott College launched the Department of Creative Arts, merging disciplines of art history, dance, music, studio art, and theatre into a new major with concentrations in these fields, a major currently unmatched in other…