Givens Scholarships

Art History in Italy and Greece Jonah Woods ’18—My trips this past fall, thanks to the Givens Award were eye-opening experiences into vastly different periods of history and allowed me to appreciate […]

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Cal Hockemeyer ’19—Having the opportunity to spend a semester 4,000 miles from home while pursuing my education was perhaps the most intellectually enlightening time of my life. Having to adapt to another […]

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Jonathan Montoya ’18 El Museo Del Prado El Museo Del Prado was by far my favorite museum of all the ones I visited while abroad. It featured famous works of art by […]

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Dakota Rhodes ‘18 Architecture as Art I was walking through Berlin, on my way to Checkpoint Charlie when what I had been learning at Wabash had kicked in. It was a utopic […]

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Michael Lumpkin ’18 Arch of Titus Coming into my Junior year at Wabash College, I had not given the study of Western European Art nearly the time or attention it deserves. Over […]

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Marcus Hoekstra ‘18 Spain’s beautiful symbiosis of religion “Wow…that’s great…so what made you study religion?” It’s a common response to a frequent question. What made me study religion? You see, what most […]

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Jacob Covert ’18 Islamic Art and Architecture in the Spanish Context Art is often one of the most omnipresent constants in our lives; however, it often goes unnoticed to the unknowing or […]

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Zackery Carl ’18 Sistine Chapel During my time abroad, I have had the opportunity to see absurdly beautiful architecture and art, such as Gaudi’s Casa Batlló, the Seville Cathedral, and The School […]

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Andrew Brake ’18 “How art reflects society and class relations” My experience discovering western art in Europe has been incredible thanks to the Givens Scholarship. The scholarship gave me the power to […]

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Austin Crosley ’18 My study abroad experience has left me incredibly thankful and humbled. As the French novelist Gustave Flaubert put it, “travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place […]

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Benjamin Elliott ’18 Before this semester, the last art class I took was in junior high, if I remember correctly. I’d never seen myself as particularly artsy, anyway – I’ve never graduated […]

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Cody Cochran ’18 Before I ultimately decided to study abroad in Valencia, Spain, I looked over the course catalogue; the one class that stood out to me particularly was one titled, simply, […]

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