Month: February 2013

JOB: Assistant/Associate Professor of African/African American Art @ Elizabeth City State University

Assistant/Associate Professor-Art Historian.  Responsibilities:  The purpose of this position is to teach existing Art History and survey courses along with Art Appreciation. Strengthen the department’s offerings in African and African American Art History. Provide student academic advisement, participate in committee assignments and perform research and scholarly activities and grantsmanships.   Requirements:  Doctorate in Art History with a background in Western and Non-Western Art with strong emphasis in African and African American Art. Experience with museum and/or gallery desired.

Position is Exempt from the Personnel Act. (EPA Faculty)

Degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.

Under Federal requirements (Fair Credit Reporting Act), ECSU will conduct a criminal background report for all final candidates for all positions and appointments.  Credit and/or driving record reports will be completed on final candidates for positions and appointments that have financial or driving responsibilities as part of the job duties.

Application Process:  Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, official college transcripts and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three (3) professional reference letters via Elizabeth City State University online employment site at https://jobs.ecsu.edu. EOE

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Jezebel has already gone overboard commenting on and identifying the obvious misogyny and racial stereotyping in Sports Illustrated’s Seven Continents spread. They went through each photo, tagging them with gems such as:

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SYMP: Women in American Art @ PAFA

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

In conjunction with The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World │ November 17, 2012 – April 7, 2013

PAFA Graduate Student  Symposium: Women in American Art


10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Auditorium in the Historic Landmark Building
This graduate symposium offers an opportunity for area graduate students to present new research on a particular artist or group of artists in American Art. Featuring original papers presented by graduate-level students at the University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Princeton University, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Temple University, the program will conclude with a panel discussion by illustrious scholars of American Art. (Act 48 credit available for educators.)

Registration: $15 (includes admission). Free for members.

Register online

http://www.pafa.org/museum/Education/General-Adult-Audiences/Symposia/1286/

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

10:00 a.m.       Welcome and Opening Remarks, Dr. Robert Cozzolino

10:30 a.m.       Interior Exposures:Women and the Practice of Home Portraiture, 1885-1920 (Marina Isgro, University of Pennsylvania)

10:55 a.m.       Super Housekeeping? Dorothy C. Miller’s Curatorial Career at MoMA (Karli Wurzelbacher, University of Delaware)

11:20 a.m.       Circulating Abstraction: The Portability and Commercial Success of Women Artists’ Abstract Expressionist Prints (Christina Weyl, Rutgers University)

11:45 a.m.       Q & A, Moderated by Curator of Historical American Art at PAFA, Dr. Anna O. Marley

12:15 p.m.       Lunch Break

1:00 p.m.         Curators and Educators available for conversation in PAFA’s Historic Cast Hall, the Permanent Collection, and The Female Gaze exhibition

 

2:00 p.m.         The ‘Dumb’ Objects of Vija Celmins (Frances Jacobus-Parker, Princeton University)

2:25 p.m.         Where It Was, I Shall Come To Be: Shadows and Absences in The Female Gaze Show (Abby King, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

2:50 p.m.         She Works Hard for the Money: Flashy Patterns and Glittering Surfaces by Mickalene Thomas (Sophie Sanders, Tyler School of Art, Temple University)

3:15 p.m.         Q & A, moderated by Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art at PAFA, Dr. Robert Cozzolino

 

3:45 p.m.         Faculty Roundtable Response  including Michael Leja (University of Pennsylvania), Camara Holloway (University of Delaware), Joan Marter (Rutgers University), Rachael DeLue (Princeton University), Jennifer Zwilling (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) and Susanna Gold (Tyler School of Art, Temple University).

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Location: Courtelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont St., DePaul University, Chicago 
Date/Time: March 7th, 4-9pm.


This free public event will address the provocative, explorative and suggestive work of cultural critics in the digital age. It is particularly interested in how cultural critics address an age that is repeatedly depicted as post-soul, post-race and post-black. 

The symposium will feature three exceptionally talented, perceptive, and incisive writers who have consistently produced intellectual work that deepens our interest in arts and culture; reveals new meanings and perspectives; expands our sense of culture; confronts our assumptions about value and taste; and sharpens our ability to respond to cultural texts. 

Lewis Gordon teaches in the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for African American Studies, with affiliation in Judaic Studies, at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He previously taught at Temple University (where he was a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founded and…

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CONF: Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas @ NYU

March 7-8, 2013

Focusing on the North and South American landscape in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the conference will explore mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice from a hemispheric perspective. While scholarship has generally used the date of 1900 and the border between the United States and Mexico to mark distinct fields, this event seeks to foster a dialogue between disciplines traditionally separated by such temporal and geographic boundaries. How can the “map” as an intellectual model both unite diverse cultures and modes of knowledge as well as highlight their differences? Though maps are often taken as straightforward, objective configurations, they can also expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Whether considering mapping as a traditional cartographic system representing the land or as a contemporary scientific approach to visualizing the body, maps allow for the unique diagramming of relationships between people and spaces, objects and time, vision and knowledge. The conference will use the concept of map-making as “world-making” in order to examine the ways in which power, place, and cultural traditions intersect and come into conflict.

Organized by Jennifer Raab (IFA/Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011 – 2013) with Kara Fiedorek and Elizabeth Frasco (IFA Ph.D. students)

For a detailed conference agenda with abstracts:
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-mapping.htm

This event will be streamed live on:
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/livestream.htm

PARTICIPANTS:

Keynote Speakers:
Jennifer L. Roberts (Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University)
Irene V. Small (Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)

Curatorial Roundtable:
Richard Aste (Curator of European Art, Brooklyn Museum)
Peter John Brownlee (Associate Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago)
Dennis Carr (Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Deborah Cullen (Director and Chief Curator, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University)
Georgiana Uhlyarik (Assistant Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario)

Graduate Student Speakers:
Cabelle Ahn (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Layla Bermeo (Harvard University)
Lauren Jacks Gamble (Yale University)
Sean Nesselrode (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Gabriela Piñero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City)
D. Jacob Rabinowitz (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Caroline Riley (Boston University)
Oliver Shultz (Stanford University)
Catalina Valdés Echenique (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

RSVP
This event is open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To make a reservation for this event, please click here:
http://tinyurl.com/IFAmapping
Your RSVP will apply to both days of the conference. Please note that seating in the Lecture Hall is on a first-come first-served basis with RSVP. A reservation does not guarantee a seat in the lecture hall. We will provide a simulcast in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow. This event will also be streamed online.

This conference is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

SYMP: Beyond the Proclamation: Interpreting Emancipation for Today’s Youth

There will be symposium which will feature presentations by museum professionals, artists, and educators on teaching and engaging K-12 audiences in conversations about the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, as well as other complicated topics in history.

Entitled Beyond the Proclamation: Interpreting Emancipation for Today’s Youth, this symposium is jointly hosted by Independence National Historical Park, Friends of Independence National Historical Park, National Park Service, the Library Company, and the African American Museum in Philadelphia, and University of Delaware’s President’s Diversity Initiative and University Museums.

In honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, this symposium will look beyond the historical facts to explore creative ways that difficult topics in history can be taught.

Panelists and presenters will address the incorporation of multiple teaching techniques for a variety of learning styles for a richer classroom experience. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with their peers and the panelists.

Participating Teachers will be able to earn Act 48 Credits for attending this symposium. Please fill out the educator section of the registration form to receive credit.

Panelists and presenters include:

Panel 1 – Reaching Students in the Classroom and in the Field
· Introduction by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Ph.D.,Director of the Program in African American History, The Library Company of Philadelphia
· Museum Programs: Naomi Coquillon, National Museum of American History
· Experiential Learning: Michelle Evans, Conner Prairie Interactive History Park
· K-12 Educator: Amy Cohen, Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School
· Reference Librarian: Krystal Appiah, The Library Company of Philadelphia

Panel 2 – Bringing History Alive Through Literature and the Arts
· Introduction by Denise Valentine, Storyteller
· Visual Arts: Jerry Pinkney, Artist
· Games: Amy Hillier, The Ward: Mapping Race and Class in DuBois’ Seventh Ward
· Children’s Literature: Cynthia Levinson, Author
· Performing Arts: Michael Bobbitt, Adventure Theatre

*Benjamin Filene, co-editor of Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World, will be the keynote speaker.

When: Saturday February 23, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM EST
Where: WHYY Philadelphia Offices, 150 North 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Contact: Friends of Independence National Historical Park, 215-861-4971, attn@friendsofindependence.org
Registration is $70. Discounts are available for members of the hosting organizations.

The registration link for the symposium is here: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=zfvkdvcab&oeidk=a07e6u90n3n2b6f24ff

Contact information:

Ivan D. Henderson
Curator of Education
University Museums
University of Delaware
203 Mechanical Hall
30 North College Avenue
Newark, DE 19716

EMAIL: ihenders@udel.edu

PHONE: 302-831-8047
FAX: 302-831-8057
WEB: www.udel.edu/museums

CFP: African Photography issue of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies

Call for papers for a special issue of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies

African Photography: Realism and After

The place and meaning of photographs in Africa has shifted dramatically
over time, from colonial and ethnographic practices to radical new forms
of contemporary representation. Photographs circulate as documents, as
remnants in the aftermath of violence and dislocation, as both public
and private records of celebration, kinship and dwelling, and as
artworks. Photography offers a suggestive surface for engagements with
questions of both the imaginary and the real. This special issue of
Social Dynamics invites papers that explore the history, theory and
practice of photography across the continent.

Topics might include:

The role of portraits and family albums
Photographs of public figures
Photography and the history and memory of slavery
African photography and postcolonial modernity
Reading photographs as colonial documents
Photography and liberation struggles
Photography and national history
Local histories of photography
Art photography and imaginative transformation

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by the 22 February 2013 to:
kyliethomas.south@gmail.com

Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies is a peer-reviewed journal
that is published three times a year by Taylor & Francis in electronic
and print format.  The journal is based at the Centre for African
Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is edited by
Louise Green and Kylie Thomas.

For more information about the journal see:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdy20/current

NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture

American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York
NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

At the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
New York City, July 1-26, 2013

Objects matter. Material culture scholars use artifactual evidence
such as consumer goods, architecture, clothing, landscape, decorative
arts, and many other types of material.

The Bard Graduate Center will host a four-week NEH Summer Institute on
American Material Culture. The institute will focus on the material
culture of the nineteenth century and use New York as its case study
because of its role as a national center for fashioning cultural
commodities and promoting consumer tastes. We will study significant
texts in the scholarship of material culture together as well as in
tandem with visiting some of the wonderful collections in and around
New York City for our hands-on work with artifacts. The city will be
our laboratory to explore some of the important issues of broad impact
that go well beyond New York.

We welcome applications from college teachers and other scholars with
some experience doing object-based work, as well as those who have
never taught or studied material culture. Application materials and
other information about content, qualifications, stipends, housing,
etc. is available at http://bgc.bard.edu/neh-institute.

The application deadline is March 4, 2013.

David Jaffee, Project Director
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture

For more information, please contact:

Katrina London
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
38 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
212.501.3026 / nehinstitute@bgc.bard.edu