Somatic, created by Cole Sansom '19 and Katie Hulihan BMC '20 for the class The Documentary Body, uses a plastic mannequin to explore themes of embodiment via interactive live-streaming video.

"In Progress” was the final exhibition for the spring 2018 course “Theory and Practice of Conceptual Art.”  The exhibition featured individual works of visual art, performances, and score based works, as well as a joint project in collaboration with Mariel Capanna, who donated a large painted mural which she had completed at Haverford. Visitors cut out their favorite sections, leaving verbal descriptions in their place.

Organized by Tess Haas BMC '18, PLEASE TOUCH THE ART: an anti-aesthetic project features textile works that value tactility and touch over visual aesthetic. At the intersection of curatorial theory and artistic practice, this project aims to be wholly accessible to all. PLEASE TOUCH THE ART features small-, medium-, and large-scale embroidery works, along with one sculpture (co-created by local Philadelphia sculptor Cameron King) and one interactive piece.

PACC project We’re in It (Remaking the World) rethought the problematic term “outsider art” to reconsider how all of us move between “inside” and “outside.” Building narratives and relationships through speech, drawing, and the written word, lead artist Samantha Mitchell worked with the artists and staff of Ardmore’s Center for Creative Works (CCW) to organize a VCAM exhibition of work created by CCW and Haverford artists, a bookmaking workshop, and other events.

Curated by students in Sally Berger’s class Visual Studies 210: Moving Image Media and Art Exhibition, Green Screen features a mid-career exhibition of all of visiting filmmaker Sam Green’s short films.

Created by Cristian Espinoza '18, Marisol is a multimedia performance and exhibition that explores the intricacies of an embodied intersectional life, considering the fluctuating emotional states an intersectional life can entail: loneliness, fear, confusion, joy, and pride. Photo: Alliyah Allen.

Organized in conjunction with the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery exhibition Unwilling: Exercises in Melancholy, members of the Hurford Center’s 2017-18 Faculty Seminar “The Arts of Melancholy” created a public archive of artwork, texts, recordings, and other materials.

VCAM hosted multidisciplinary artist Mariel Capanna for the first three weeks of April 2018, where she visited courses, facilitated a fresco workshop, and created an immersive three-walled painting exploring memory and loss.

In this installation, Eli Baden-Lasar '21 explores garments as historical documents which he reanimates by wearing, ranging from his great-grandmother’s wedding veil to his grandfather’s medical scrubs and NYPD jacket to his sister’s prom dress.

Food! Food? features paintings, drawings, watercolors, and collages by students in Ying Li’s painting and drawing classes in the Haverford Fine Arts Department, variously depicting food as cultural and metaphorical icons.

This photographic timeline showcases the making of an electric guitar in the VCAM Maker Arts Space, built by Micah Maben '21 and documented by Jessica Lopez '21.

Who Belongs? Exodus and Arrival features works by PACC artists Jacobia Dahm and Griselda San Martin that illuminate current political discourses on human rights, social justice, and the global refugee crisis.

Luba Mendelevich '19’s installation recreates an amorphous memory of her childhood inspired by W. G. Sebald’s short story Dr. Henry Selwyn.

Born into a conflict she was too young to remember, Dita Cavdarbasha ’19 created a series of poetry-videos addressed to her Serbian neighbors to attempt to reconcile the displacement that informs her identity.

Created in conjunction with the course “PJHR 315: Oral History and Activism,” taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Anne Balay, Bus(t) the Bubble highlighted the Tri-Co Bus and Van drivers who knit together the Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore communities.

In Lay/Lines, Isabella Siegel ’19 visualized layers of three Philadelphia neighborhoods and drew them onto sheets of clear acetate. The viewers were able to rearrange the layers, and interact with the work to bring layers to the front, or push others behind.

Alliyah Allen ’18 created a series of photographic portraits of womxn of color at Haverford College, imagining the project as a remedy in a world where self-care can be easily overlooked.

Created by Colin Fredrickson ’20, Shedding City focused on the discarded or “shed” items that are designed to be forgotten, drawing on recyclable materials collected over a month on campus.

Created for the class Sculpture 200: Materials and Techniques with Naomi Safran-Hon, Jessie Lamworth ’18’s Big Mess seizes the open canvas of the room and animates an eruption of colors from its every facet.