Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts had “How To Take Something That’s Ephemeral And
Make It Endure” accepted for inclusion in the Northwest Arts Center’s INT’L All Media 2025 exhibition; and had “Who Can Cheat Destiny” selected for group exhibition “Unboxed: Rethinking the Grid” at the Brick City Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO; “Serious Emails Must Be Sent From The Computer, Not The Phone” selected for the 2025 National Juried Painting Exhibition at The University of Southern Mississippi; “Is Maybe A Polite No?” was accepted at the WHIM exhibition at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio and at the Rockport Art Association & Museum National Juried Show. She had two pieces “Inexorably Eating Bamboo While You Blankly Stare” and “Do I Need Blood Pressure Medicine Before Entering This Museum” selected for 40 under 40 at the The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences. “The Cat Sits In The Back Back, Watching Ice Chunks Fall Off The Window” was selected for the Providence Art Club’s National Open Juried Exhibition. “We Are Now Closer To 2050 Than 1990” was on view at the Residence of the United States Ambassador to Peru.
Christopher Swist, Lecturer in Music and Director of Recording Arts had his Prelude for Marimba, performed at several festivals including most recently the 2025 Taipei Asia Pacific Band Association Competition.
Christopher Houlihan, John Rose College Organist-and-Directorship Distinguished Chair of Chapel Music and Artist-in-Residence, performed in an invited solo recital, Aspen Music Festival, Colo., in July 2024; as orchestral soloist (Barber, Toccata Festiva) with the Holland Symphony Orchestra (Johannes Müller Stosch, music director and conductor) at Hope College, Mich. in September 2024; and as orchestral soloist (Hanson, Organ Concerto and Guilmant, Symphony No. 1) with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (Carolyn Kuan, Music Director and Conductor) at Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford at Trinity College in September 2024.
Professor of Fine Arts Robert Kirschbaum’s print folio/artist’s book “The 42-Letter Name” was acquired by The Thomas J. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as part of its artists’ books collection.
Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, exhibited work in the solo exhibition “What If” at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La. The exhibition continues through February 18. At right: I Would Like to Use the Photo of Jenny Wu’s Cat for My Headshot Please, 2024, latex paint and resin on wood panel (photo courtesy of the artist).
Professor Wu’s work It Turns Out That 16oz Of Coffee At 5:11 P.M. Is Too Much Coffee was awarded first prize for 35 Under 35, an exhibition juried by Ruba Katrib and was on view in July and August 2024 at The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences in Loveladies, New Jersey. The 2024 work is latex paint and resin on wood panel.
Michael FitzGerald, Kluger Family Professor of Art History
• Curator of the exhibition Pablo Picasso: Structures of Invention. The Unity of a Life’s Work, Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain, 2024-27.
Robert Kirschbaum, Professor of Fine Arts
• Group exhibition: “Genesis: The Beginning of Creativity,” The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City, June 1-July 30, 2023.
Scott Reeds, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
• Intaglio print Promo Code 1 included in a group exhibition in the 2024 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, curated by Yugi Hiratsuka with catalog, Bradbury Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Ark., January-February 2024.
Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts |
Trinity has announced the appointment of three new named professorships; Sarah Bilston, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of English; Clayton P. Byers, Donald L. McLagan Associate Professor of Engineering; and Mark E. Stater, Ward S. Curran Distinguished Professor of Economics.
The debut novel by Trinity College Associate Professor of English Ethan Rutherford, North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, has been named by the National Book Foundation as a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.
Several members of the Trinity community represented the College recently at the American Political Science Association’s 121st Annual Meeting and Exhibition.
