Calendar
Thursday, February 14, 2013
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Fine Arts 010
Lecture by Dr. Alice Burmeister, Associate Professor Art History, Winthrop University
"Demonstrating Iyawa: The Aesthetics of Capability in Hausa Art"
Sponsored by the Robert and Avis Burke Lecture Series
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Friends of Art Work in Progress Scholarship Event
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. held in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Room 174
The event will allow Friends of Art and other interested community members to meet several recipients of Friends of Art scholarships and awards, and learn about their academic ambitions, research methods, studio practices, influences and inspiration. Light refreshments will be served while award recipients give brief presentations about their studies.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Indiana University, Art Museum
Three Remarkable Women
5:15 - 6:00 p.m. Woodburn Hall, Room 101
IU Art Museum director and art historian Heidi Gealt will discuss the Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery, a painting that marks a connection among three remarkable eighteenth-century women: the sitter, Margaret Chinnery; the famous French writer, Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis; and the celebrated French painter Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.
A reception will follow this event.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Indiana University, Art Museum
Noon Talk
Evidence of a Remarkable Friendship
12:15–1:00 p.m. Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
Cherry Williams, the curator of manuscripts at the Lilly Library, will discuss the relationship between patron of the art, Mrs. Chinnery and celebrated author, Madame de Genlis in early nineteenth-century England and France.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
AHA (Art History Association) Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Rebecca Green, Bowling Green State University
5:00-6:00 p.m. Fine Arts 102
Lecture title: : Community Public Artistic Responses to HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and TobagoBio: Rebecca L. Skinner Green is associate professor of World Art and culture and has been teaching at Bowling Green State University since 1996, where she served as Division Chair for almost 10 years. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University in African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art History (1991 and 1996 respectively), and her B.A. in Art History from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Honors in African Art History, 1986). Her research focuses on traditional and contemporary art and culture in Africa, with particular specialization on Madagascar, where she studies the relationships between ancestors, funerary practices, divination, gender roles, and traditional and contemporary art. Her research is currently expanding into art and culture in the Caribbean, with primary focus on Trinidad and Tobago, contemporary art, and communal public artistic responses to HIV/AIDS. Her work, which has resulted in conference papers, articles, books, edited volumes, curated exhibitions, and television interviews, has been sponsored by a Social Science Research Council fellowship, a Foreign Language Area Studies grant, a Fulbright fellowship, two Fulbright-Hays fellowships, and an American Association of University Women fellowship. Green regularly presents papers at national and international conferences, including the African Studies Association, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (where she served on the Board of Directors), the Caribbean Studies Association, and others. Green's publications include: "From Cemetery to Runway: Dress and Identity in Highland Madagascar," in Contemporary African Fashion. Suzanne Gott and Tina Loughran (eds), Indiana University Press, 2010; and "Conceptions of Identity and Tradition in Highland Malagasy Clothing," in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. Special Issue: African Fashion/African Style. Victoria Rovine (editor), June 2009. Green has also authored: "Kanga/Proverb Cloths‚" in Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion, Valerie Steele (ed.), Charles Scribner & Sons, 2005; "Betsileo Textiles: Negotiating Identity Between the Living and the Dead," in Unwrapping A Little-Known Textile Tradition: The Field Museum's Madagascar Textile Collection. Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Judy Odland, and Bennet Bronson (eds). UCLA's Fowler Museum, 2005; and "Ancestral Dreams: Re-Visiting the Past, Re-Living the Present, Re-Creating the Future," in Memory and Representation: Constructed Truths and Competing Realities. Eber, Dena E., and Arthur G. Neal (eds), Bowling Green: Popular Culture Press, 2001
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Hannah Higgins, University of Illinois at Chicago, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Fine Arts 102
Sponsored by the Robert and Avis Burke Lecture Series
Lecture title: "The Ghost in the Machine: The Experimental Art of Manframes."
A Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Higgins is the author of Fluxus Experience (University of California Press, 2002) and The Grid Book (MIT Press, 2009) and an edited anthology with Douglas Kahn, Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of Digital Art, about the mainframe phase of experimental computer art from 1960-1970 (University of California Press, 2012. Higgins has lectured internationally on topics ranging from Fluxus to the art of Marcel Duchamp, a variety of grid structures across the arts and sciences, and artists’ games. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1994 and has been the recipient of DAAD, Getty and Philips Collection research support.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Indiana University, Art Museum
A Lecture and Performance
Giovanni Battista Viotti: Italian violin virtuoso and composer
2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor
Dr. Massimo Ossi, Professor of Musicology from the Jacob School of Music, will discuss violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti's friendship and collaborations with his patron, Mrs. Chinnery. Dr. Ossi's presentation will be followed by a performance by students from the Jacob School of Music. The music program will include a quartet for flute and strings and a cello duet, representing the kinds of chamber music Viotti composed for Madame Chinnery's salon and private entertainment.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Indiana University, Art Museum
Keynote Lecture
Reading, Writing and Representing: A Tale of Three Women
5:15- 6:15 p.m. Location:TBD
Mary D. Sheriff, the W.R. Kenan, Jr Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina and author of The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (1996) will present the keynote lecture.
In Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s stunning Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery, the celebrated painter and patron of the arts rub shoulders with the influential writer Stephanie de Genlis, whose manuscript Mrs. Chinnery is holding. Through a visual analysis of the image combined with a reading of the artist’s memoirs, the sitter’s letters, and the writings of Stephanie de Genlis, this paper explores the portrait as a narrative of the relations among three distinguished women.
A High Tea Themed Reception will follow the lecture.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Graduate Student recognition reception
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Grunwald Gallery of Art
Friday, May 3, 2013
Undergraduate Student recognition reception
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Grunwald Gallery of Art
