The public forum outlined below is free and open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Media are asked to call the contacts above to cover the sessions. It will be webcast live at si.edu/flashpoints.
Author: Camara Dia Holloway
I am the Project Manager for the Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute. I earned my PhD at Yale University in the History of Art Department and specialize in twentieth century American art with a particular focus on the history of photography, race and representation, and transatlantic modernist networks. I also serve as a Founding Co-Director of the Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH).
SYMP: Two Centuries of Black American Art Roundtable @ LACMA
Two Centuries of Black American Art
A 35th Anniversary Roundtable
David Driskell, Keynote Speaker
Saturday, May 14, 2011
2 pm
LACMA | Bing Theater
Free, No reservations
Two Centuries of Black American Art, organized for LACMA in 1976 by guest curator David Driskell, powerfully demonstrated the contributions of black artists to American art and art history from 1750 to the mid-twentieth century.
JOIN Professor David Driskell and distinguished panelists Dr. Bridget Cooks, Cecil Fergerson, and Dr. Samella Lewis to honor and consider the significance and impact of this historic exhibition. Franklin Sirmans, Curator, Contemporary Art, will moderate the discussion. Brooke Davis Anderson, Deputy Director, Curatorial Planning, and Austen Bailly, Associate Curator, American Art, will introduce the program.
Sponsored by LACMA’s American Art Council.
EXH: “Romare Bearden: The Artist as Activist” @ The Nathan Cummings Foundation [NYC]
An exhibition organized by the Romare Bearden Foundation
Romare Bearden: The Artist as Activist examines how an American artist agitated for change through the power of his art and writing. This show traces Bearden’s evolution into a true master artist whose work changed our ways of seeing the world and thus our readiness for action in it. On display will be original works as well as examples of his magazine covers and editorial cartoons.
Curated by Diedra Harris-Kelley, C. Daniel Dawson and Robert G. O’Meally
This exhibition is on view from April 28, 2011–July 22, 2011
at the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
475 10th Avenue, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 28, 6:00pm–8:00pm
Live music and refreshments
RSVP by April 22 at ncf.events@nathancummings.org
Viewing Hours
9:00am-5:00pm, Monday through Friday, by appointment only.
Please contact Arnita Morabito at 212-787-7300, Ext. 206.
SYMP: Nka Roundtable III: “Contemporary African Art and the Museum”
Nka Roundtable III: “Contemporary African Art and the Museum”
Over the next several weeks curators and directors of major museums in the United States, Germany, Japan, South Africa and the UK will engage in spirited but substantial discussion on the relationship between contemporary African art and the museum. I expect excursions into the history of this relationship, its crucial moments, state of affairs, and challenges that remain. In the process, we shall debate issues of presenting this material in art and ethnology museums; the politics of acquisitions and display; museums and scholarship; and the place of contemporary African art–relative to the “traditional” and western contemporary. I suspect that there will be surprising turns in the course of our discussion, but I am certain that the deliberations of this diverse, unprecedented and distinguished panel of curators will surely be of immense value to students and scholars working or interested in this exciting, dynamic field. Please join us!
Convener: *Chika Okeke-Agulu* (Princeton University)
Participants: *Marla Berns* (Director, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles), *Christa Clarke* (Senior Curator, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ), *Laurie Ann Farrell* (Director of Exhibitions, Savannah College of Art & Design Gallery, Savannah, GA), *Khwezi Gule* (Chief Curator, Hector Pieterson Memorial, Johannesburg), *Kinsey Katchka* (independent scholar/curator), *Yukiya Kawaguchi* (Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka), *Clive Kellner* (Curator-at-Large, The Gordon Schachat Collection, Johannesburg), *Karen Milbourne* (Curator, Smithsonian National Museum for African Art, Washington DC), *Raison Naidoo* (Director Arts Collections, Iziko: South African National Gallery, Cape Town), *Enid Schildkrout* (Chief Curator/Director of Exhibitions, Museum for African Art, New York) *Chris Spring* (Curator, British Museum, London), *Ulf Vierke* (Director, Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth), *Okwui Enwezor*, *Salah M. Hassan*.
CFP: Session at Southeastern College Art Conference @ Savannah, GA
“African Diaspora Artists in the Americas: New Histories, New Constructions, New Interpretations”
This session will focus on new research addressing art created by African Diaspora artists in the Americas from the colonial eras to the present. In the last two decades, scholars have both expanded the field of study of African American and African Diasporic art and developed newly nuanced interpretations of the meanings and implications of racialized discourses about artistic production and stylistic interchange. This sessions seeks papers addressing issues raised by these new discursive constructions related to relationships between artists, social politics, and contemporary visual culture; the significance of trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific artistic and cultural interchange; the intersections of gender and class with racialized identities; post-colonial approaches to the history and effects of slavery; and challenges to the notion of race itself as an organizing category of knowledge. Papers that address any aspect of these dimensions of the history of African American or African Diasporic Art in the Americas are welcomed.
Please submit a 200-word (maximum) proposal using the form found on the SECAC website plus a 1 page CV by April 20, 2011 to session Chair: Helen Langa, e-mail: hlanga@american.edu (see address and phone below)
http://www.secollegeart.org/forms/2011_SECAC_Call_for_Papers_PROPOSAL_FORM.doc
For more information about the conference and SECAC, see: http://www.secollegeart.org/annual-conference.html
Helen Langa, PhD
Director, Art History Program
Associate Professor, Art History and Gender Studies
Katzen Art Center 233
Art Department
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington D.C. 20016-8004
hlanga@american.edu
202-885-1682
SYMP: African Art Symposium in Honor of Dr. Sidney L. Kasfir @ Emory
Critical Encounters: A Graduate Student Symposium in Honor of Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Friday & Saturday
April 22 & 23, 2011
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Emory University
Reception Hall
Throughout her career Dr. Sidney L. Kasfir has sought to rethink the way scholars, artists, museums, and viewers understand and categorize African art. She has attempted to expand our classificatory system without allowing generalizations to dilute the complex efforts of artists, cultures, and visual languages. This symposium, organized in honor of her retirement from Emory University, considers three themes to which Dr. Kasfir has contributed: Commodification and Tourism; Heritage; and The Artist, The Workshop, and Cultural Brokerage.
Invited graduate students from across the country, in multiple disciplines working with visual culture in Africa, will explore topics related to these themes in a day-long symposium that is open to the Emory community and the public.
This program is co-sponsored by Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum, Art History Department, and Institute for African Studies.
Friday, April 22
7:30 pm
Keynote Address
Dr. Chika Okeke-Agulu, Assistant Professor of Art History, Princeton University, New Thoughts on the Mbari Mbayo Workshops in Osogbo, 1962-66
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EXH: “Richmond Barthé: The Seeker” and Gallery Talk @ Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
Richmond Barthé: The Seeker
November 6, 2010 – June 12, 2011
Gallery of African American Art
Beau Rivage Resort & Casino Gallery
Guest Curator: Margaret Rose Vendryes
Richmond Barthé, who was born on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, began his career in 1927 during his training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Barthé initially studied painting, but after he was exposed to modeling the human form in clay, he found his calling and began to attain success as a sculptor. After his move to New York, where he was associated with the Harlem Renaissance, Barthé established a reputation as one of the leading modern artists of his time, as well as one of the first African American artists to obtain critical success and celebrity.
Gallery Talk and Reception
Saturday, April 16
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Guest Curator, Margaret Rose Vendryes, Ph.D. will speak on the highlights of bronze sculptor, Richmond Barthé’s life and career. She will also be available to sign her book Barthé a Life in Sculpture which is available for purchase in the Museum Store.
The event is Free for members
$5 for non-members
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PUB: Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America by Tanya Sheenan
“Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America,” by Tanya Sheenan was released last week from Penn State University Press.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03792-9.html
In Doctored, Tanya Sheehan takes a new look at the relationship between
photography and medicine in American culture, from the nineteenth century
to the present. Sheehan focuses on Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia,
exploring the ways in which medical models and metaphors helped strengthen
the professional legitimacy of the city’s commercial photographic
community at a time when it was not well established. By reading the trade
literature and material practices of portrait photography and medicine in
relation to one another, she shows how their interaction defined the space
of the urban portrait studio as well as the physical and social effects of
studio operations. Integrating the methods of social art history, science
studies, and media studies, Doctored reveals important connections between
the professionalization of American photographers and the construction of
photography’s cultural identity.
EXH: “Reframing Haiti: Art, History and Performativity” @ Brown University, et al.
From March 23-April 21, 2011, Brown University, in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design and the Waterloo Center for the Arts, will host a multi-venue exhibition of more than 100 works of Haitian art.
In conjunction with this exhibition, titled, Re-Framing Haiti: Art, History and Performativity, Brown will host five visiting Haitian artists, who will present public lectures and workshops.
The exhibition and all artist events will be free and open to the public.
http://brown.edu/web/reframing-haiti/
Contact: reframinghaiti@gmail.com
401-863-3137
OPP: Archaeological Field School on Edgefield, South Carolina Pottery Communities
Archaeological Field School on Edgefield, South Carolina Pottery Communities
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Anth. 454-CF and 455-CF (6 credits; 6 weeks), May 23, 2011 to July 1, 2011
This field school will provide training in the techniques of excavation, mapping, controlled surface surveys, artifact classification and contextual interpretation. Students will work in supervised teams, learning to function as members of a field crew, with all of the skills necessary for becoming professional archaeologists. Many students from past University of Illinois field schools have gone on to graduate study and professional field-archaeology positions. Laboratory processing and analysis will be ongoing during the field season. Evening lectures by project staff, visiting archaeologists, and historians will focus on providing background on how field data are used to answer archaeological and historical research questions.
Learn more on our web site —
http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/Edgefield/
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