Art History and Archaeology
Calendar for Department of Art History and Archaeology
*Saturday, November 7, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Opening reception and exhibition viewing for registered participants
Friday, November 6, 6-8 p.m.
In conjunction with its groundbreaking exhibition /Sargent and the Sea/,
the Corcoran Gallery of Art presents a scholarly symposium featuring
presentations by seven internationally-recognized scholars on themes
related to the exhibition.
Presentations:
Opening Remarks
*Sarah Cash*, bechhoefer curator of American art, Corcoran Gallery of Art
/Sargent and the Paris Art Scene/
*Richard Ormond*, project director, John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné
/Unbridled Enthusiasm: Sargent and European Marine Painting in the 1870s /
*Nancy Locke*, associate professor of art history, The Pennsylvania
State University
/Sargent's "Traveling Culture": Transatlantic Crossings, Expatriate
Experience, and the Workings of a Cosmopolitan Aestheticism/
*Peter Gibian*, professor of English, McGill University
/To Finistère By Way of Field and Strand/
*Maureen C. O'Brien*, curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Art,
Rhode Island School of Design
/The Lure of the South/
*Elaine Kilmurray*, co-author and research director, John Singer Sargent
Catalogue Raisonné
/Describing is Descending: Moby-Dick and Art History/
*Alexander Nemerov*, professor and chair of the history of art
department, Yale University
In /Sargent and the Sea/, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together
for the first time more than eighty paintings, watercolors, and drawings
depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John
Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter
of the late nineteenth century.
Creative Dialogue: Outcast and Society
Two performances this season at the Center, Disfarmer and Hotel Cassiopeia, take us into the worlds of well-known outcasts, suggesting how their removal from society allowed them to produce art that captures, honors and creates magic from a world that we sometimes take for granted. A panel led by David Serlin considers the role of the “loner” and the power the outsider might have to see society more clearly.
DISFARMER
conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin
original music by Dan Moses Schreier
text by Sally Oswald
Thursday, November 5 . 8PM
Friday, November 6 . 8PM
Ina & Jack Kay Theatre
TICKETS $37 / $9 STUDENT
Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theater that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.
This performance is supported, in part, by the Henson Endowment for Performing Arts.
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The Photography of Disfarmer
Enter the town of Heber Springs, Arkansas through the work of American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer. Steven Kasher of the Steven Kasher Gallery leads a pre-performance digital exhibit of the work of the reclusive artist who inspired Disfarmer.
DISFARMER
conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin
original music by Dan Moses Schreier
text by Sally Oswald
Thursday, November 5 . 8PM
Friday, November 6 . 8PM
Ina & Jack Kay Theatre
TICKETS $37 / $9 STUDENT
Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theater that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.
This performance is supported, in part, by the Henson Endowment for Performing Arts.
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Cocktail Reception 5-6PM, David C. Driskell Center, Cole Student Activities Building
Keynote Speaker 6PM in ASY 2309
"Modernist Primitivism: The Heart of the Matter"
Jack Flam, Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History,
Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center
10AM-5PM
Symposium. The Phillips Collection
Center for Advanced Study
In the Visual Arts
Wyeth Lecture in American Art
"Minstrelsy 'Uncorked': Thomas Eakins’ Empathetic Realism"
By: Richard J. Powell
Duke University
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:30 pm
East Building Auditorium
Reception to follow
Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington
Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of art and art
history and professor of African and African American studies at Duke
University. He received his BA from Morehouse College; an MFA from
Howard University (1977); and an MA (1982) in Afro-American studies, an
MPhil (1984), and a PhD (1988) in history of art, all from Yale
Univer-sity. He has taught at University of Hartford (1982), Middlebury
College (1986), and at Duke University, where he was appointed assistant
professor (1989 – 1992), associate professor (1992 – 1998), and full
professor (1998 – ). In addition, he has served as guest curator and
consultant at the Field Museum of Natural History (1983 – 1984) and
director of programs at the Washington Project for the Arts (1987 –
1989). His honors and awards include the Ednah Root Visiting Curatorship
in American Art, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(1994); a Du Bois Insti-tute for Afro-American Research fellowship,
Harvard University (1992 – 1993); and a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1992 – 1993). Recently,
he was selected as editor in chief of /The Art Bulletin /(2007 – 2010).
Professor Powell’s books include /Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black
Portraiture /(2008), /Black Art: A Cultural History /(2002; revised and
expanded edition of /Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century /[1997]),
/Jacob Lawrence /(1992), and /Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H.
Johnson /(1991). In addition he has organized numerous exhibitions for
which he has written catalogues, such as /Circle Dance: The Art of John
T. Scott /(2005), /Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow /(2002), /To
Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and
Universities /(1999), /Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem
Renaissance /(1997), /The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism
/(1989), /From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the
Washington Area /(1989), and /James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art
/(1986).
/This lecture is supported by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art./
CARLOS BASUALDO
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
7:00 PM
In collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism
Falvey Hall, Maryland Institute College of Art Campus
1300 Mt. Royal Avenue
Carlos Basualdo, Keith L and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, comes to Baltimore to share his experiences curating on the global stage. The curator of numerous international exhibitions, Basualdo most recently served as lead organizer of Bruce Nauman's celebrated exhibition in the United States Pavilion at the recent Venice Bienniale exhibition.
MICA Students/Staff/Faculty and Contemporary Museum Members: FREE
General Admission: $10
Students: $5
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Center of American Art Presents the Philadelphia Seminar in American Art
Blown-Up Flowers: Georgia O'Keeffe, Photography, and the Great War
Alan C. Braddock - Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 3:00PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Building Media Room
Admission is free.
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
PH.D. COMPLETION PROJECT WORKSHOPS
Curriculum Vitae
and
Cover Letters
Becky Weir, M.A.
Assistant Director
University Career Center and the President’s Promise
Friday, November 13, 2009
Lecture Hall 0200, Skinner Building
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
This workshop provides a discussion of the parts of a CV, how to write it, what to include, how to use it and how it differs from a resume. Writing tips for preparing a CV will be given, and sample CVs and cover letters will be disseminated.
For registration and additional information, please visit: http://www.gradschool.umd.edu/grrd/workshops.
Questions: 301.405.4180 or retention@gradschool.umd.edu
National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The
talks are held at noon in the Archives’ Executive Board room on the
second floor of the Victor Building at 750 Ninth Street NW. Please bring
your own lunch and beverage. Please contact Liza Kirwin at
kirwinl@si.edu <mailto:kirwinl@si.edu> if you need special accommodations.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon
Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American
Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from
outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements
of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz
(goerlitza@si.edu <mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to
our list.
National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The
talks are held at noon in the Archives’ Executive Board room on the
second floor of the Victor Building at 750 Ninth Street NW. Please bring
your own lunch and beverage. Please contact Liza Kirwin at
kirwinl@si.edu <mailto:kirwinl@si.edu> if you need special accommodations.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon
Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American
Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from
outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements
of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz
(goerlitza@si.edu <mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to
our list.
MICHELANGELO'S DAVID: NAKED MEN IN PIAZZA
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:30 in the Maxwell Multi-Purpose Room
of the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
The Art History Graduate Student Association and Department of Art
History are pleased to announce a lecture by John Paoletti (Kenan
Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus and Professor of Art History,
Emeritus at Wesleyan University). Dr Paoletti is a renowned scholar
whose contributions to both Renaissance and Modern art history have
helped shape the field as we know it today.
We hope you will join us for Dr Paoletti's lecture which will be
immediately followed by a reception in the lobby of the Zimmerli Art
Museum. For more information please visit http://arthistory.rutgers.edu. Directions to the museum are
available at http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/.
Camara Holloway, assistant professor, University of Delaware, will speak on "Homo africanus harlemi: The Image of the New Negro."
The lunchbag lectures are sponsored by the Archives of American Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The talks are held at noon in the Archives’ Executive Board room on the second floor of the Victor Building at 750 Ninth Street NW. Please bring your own lunch and beverage. Please contact Liza Kirwin at kirwinl@si.edu<mailto:kirwinl@si.edu> if you need special accommodations.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz (goerlitza@si.edu<mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to our list.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz (goerlitza@si.edu<mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to our list.
Please join us every Wednesday at noon for an informal social hour between the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the Art History and Archaeology Department.
We will meet in the seminar room (ASY 4304). Bring your lunch!