About

Mission

Pitzer College Art Galleries believe in the power of art to inspire, engage, and transform. The Galleries’ exhibitions and programs facilitate inquiry into contemporary and historical issues of importance and reflect Pitzer College’s core values of social responsibility, intercultural understanding, interdisciplinary learning, and environmental sustainability. With a focus on inclusivity, we seek to expand and deepen our understanding of the world around us. Through collaborations and partnerships with artists, and the Pitzer community, we facilitate meaningful engagement across multiple constituencies and disciplines.  

About Our Program

University museums and galleries such as Pitzer are unique entities as they serve both external and internal constituencies and are not beholden to the market. This advantage is also a commitment—one that allows institutions like ours to maintain their ethical rigor in education and to promote social equality through exhibitions that are intellectually provocative, justly diligent, and visually compelling. These exhibitions function as teaching tools by encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to pedagogy and providing alternate lenses through which to examine diverse fields of study. Regardless of the disciplinary focus, this image- and object-based approach can expand students’ critical observational and interpretative skills and increase not only visual literacy, a skill employed in most aspects of our lives, but provide a wider cultural understanding and connectiveness to disparate subjects. Pitzer College Art Galleries is a critical conduit of educational, cultural, and social enlightenment for our students. Whether virtual or in person, the Galleries’ will continue to program artist and faculty lectures, cross-disciplinary symposia, in-house produced videos, as well as socially-conscious exhibitions that examine racial and gender equity.