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How do images, objects, museums, and monuments shape our history and contemporary experience? Learn the history and dynamics of art: how to look and how to write critically about visual and material culture, past and present.

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Students, visitors and staff attend the opening reception at the Tufts University Art Gallery.

Visual Resources Collection

The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) located in the Fine Arts House supports the pedagogical needs of our faculty, students, and staff.

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Biblical Stories, South Facade, Church of Aghtamar, 915 CE

Department Announcements

Call for Papers: (De)Spatializing Sites: Art Out of Place - Graduate Student Symposium | April 9, 2027

Graduate Student Call for Papers/Proposals: Ekphrasis: An Art History Graduate Journal Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University
All submissions are due by January 15, 2027 through the journal’s online Submissions Tab. Please select the appropriate section (Academic Essay, Book Review, or Exhibition Highlight) at the time of submission.

Ekphrasis is an online scholarly journal produced by the graduate students of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. Published annually in partnership with Tisch Library, the journal provides a platform for art historical exploration and analysis to fulfill its essential objective.

Inaugural issue published Spring 2026