Category: lectures & talks

LEC: Curating Pacific Spaces @ Int’l Studio & Curatorial Program

URL for additional information: http://www.iscp-nyc.org/events/current/curating-pacific-spaces.html

On August 13th, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents the panel Curating Pacific Spaces: Recent Developments in Contemporary Art from the South Pacific. New Zealand is home to one of the largest populations of Pacific people in the world, however Indigenous Pacific artists and curators have, until recently, rarely been featured in the art history of this nation. Today a new generation of indigenous artists endeavor to have their contribution to the contemporary art scene of the South Pacific fully recognized.

Curators of contemporary Maori and Pacific Islander art, Reuben Friend and Shelley Jahnke, will present their findings on recent developments in contemporary Pacific Art, from trends in the private gallery scene to the latest generation of emerging millennial artists. Reuben Friend’s findings highlight the types of contemporary Pacific Art currently being exhibited in public galleries in New Zealand and how these works translate to an international audience. Shelley Jahnke’s research examines the dynamics of selling and positioning contemporary Māori and Pacific Art within New Zealand and international markets.

Reuben Friend is an artist and curator of Māori and Pākehā lineage. From 2009-2013, he worked as the Curator of Māori and Pacific Arts at City Gallery and recently relocated to Brisbane where he works as the Exhibition Manager at Logan Art Gallery while developing contemporary Pacific art projects on a freelance basis.

Shelley Jahnke is a Māori curator with experience working within public and commercial galleries in New Zealand. Prior to taking up the role of curator, at Te Manawa Art Gallery, Palmerston North, she worked exclusively for an Asian-based private international art collector and contributed to the curation and project management of the international touring show Roundabout. This ambitious three year project debuted at the City Gallery, Wellington in late 2010 and later the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2012.

The presentation will be facilitated by ISCP artist-in-residence Shigeyuki Kihara.
Contact Email: ebees@iscp-nyc.org

Trends in Contemporary Nigerian Art Talk @ SOAS

africanartinlondon's avatarAfrican Art in London

Two of Nigeria’s most distinguished contemporary artists will be at the School of Oriental and African Studies this Thursday.

Ben Osaghae and Fidelis Odogwu, both alumni of Nigeria School of Art Polytechnic in Edo State will be discussing trends in contemporary Nigerian art.

Ben Osaghae has been described as a ‘social chronicler’. His paintings, drawings and mixed media creations contemplate the mundaneness of daily life. A discerning colourist, his work is often identified by bright figures floating on the wide, flat surface of his canvas. Osaghae’s work is often charged with political opinion revealing of his frustrations with regards to the development of his country.

Fidelis Odogwu is a sculptor who works within the visual narratives of Nigerian art, using repetitive designs and traditional motifs. Odogwu is able to transform masses of metal into objects that look fit for astral travel. He is a master of shape and symmetry using zig-zags, spirals…

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LEC: “Negro Cloth” by Seth Rockman @ The New School

The New School History Department and the Market Cultures Group NYC
invites you to attend:

“Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America”
Seth Rockman
Associate Professor of History
Brown University

Monday, May 6 @ 6pm
80 Fifth Avenue, Room 529

This talk considers the emergence of the American “negro cloth” industry in
the 1820s and 1830s. At the intersection of material culture studies,
business history, and comparative slavery, this talk traces the circuits of
social knowledge that complemented the circuits of capital in the
simultaneous expansion of the factory and the plantation. Enslaved men
and women played a collaborative role in the design of particular textiles,
and their preferences for some products and critiques of others structured
patterns of labor hundreds of miles away. The research is drawn from a
larger study underway on the inter-regional trade in plantation provisions:
Northern-made hats, hoes, shoes, shovels, and even whips manufactured
for use on Southern slave plantations.

Seth Rockman is associate professor of History at Brown University. His
2009 book Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early
Baltimore won several awards, including the Merle Curti Prize from the
Organization of American Historians. Rockman’s essay on the Jacksonian Era
appears in the recent American History Now volume published by the American
Historical Association. His findings on North-South economic ties have been
previewed in the New York Times “Disunion” blog and the Bloomberg News
“Echoes” blog. Rockman serves on the governing board of Brown University’s
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.

http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/events.aspx?id=94359

Seminar Series, Art and Museums in Africa Michaelmas 2012 @ Cambridge Centre of African Studies

Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme
Seminar Series Michaelmas 2012
Art and Museums in Africa

The Collaborative Research Programme is supported by the Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust

Monday 29 October at 5pm, Room S1, ARB
Atta Kwami: Independent Artist, Art Historian and Curator

Grace Note
The talk assesses the legacy of Grace Salome Kwami (1923-2006) as a modern
Ghanaian artist, educator and mentor. Her varied oeuvre of photographs,
textile designs, terracotta figures, pots, portraits, drawings, paintings,
decorated calabashes, sculpture, bead work and dress-design are of such a
high and consistent standard that people are considering establishing an
art museum in her house in Ho, Ghana. Towards the end of her life Grace
Kwami spent many months in Kumasi, where she had trained in the 1950s as a
Specialist Art Teacher at the Kumasi College of Technology, (now the KNUST).

Atta Kwami is a Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge/Africa Collaborative
Research Programme, Art and Museums in Africa (2012/2013). He completed his
Ph.D. in Art History at The Open University in 2007. As a Senior Lecturer,
he taught painting and printmaking from 1986 to 2006 at the College of Art,
KNUST, Kumasi. A number of his paintings hang in major public collections
including the National Museums of Ghana and Kenya, the V&A Museum, London,
the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York and The British Museum.

This Seminar is accompanied by the exhibition ‘GRACE’ by Atta Kwami and
Pamela Clarkson. The exhibition is located on the 3rd floor of the Alison
Richard Building and will run until 15 March 2013.

Seminars are held in Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road,
Cambridge CB3 9DT
For enquiries contact the Centre of African Studies on 01223 334396
centre@african.cam.ac.uk, www.african.cam.ac.uk

The 2012 Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture: Maurie D. McInnis “Slaves Waiting for Sale: Visualizing the American Slave Trade”

Martin Berger talks about his 2011 book, SEEING THROUGH RACE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDnom7xma4

Professor Berger’s lecture at the California College of the Arts (San Francisco campus), November 17, 2011.

Professor Berger’s lecture at the California College of the Arts (San Francisco campus), November 17, 2011.

LEC: The Artist’s Voice – Leonardo Drew in Conversation with Thelma Golden @ Studio Museum

LEC: The Gertrude Stein Paradox @ SVA

Jeff Edwards's avatarThe Visual & Critical Studies blog

This Monday, April 2nd at 7:00 p.m., the Visual & Critical Studies Department will present “The Gertrude Stein Paradox: Michèle Cone heads a panel of renowned Stein scholars.” Here is a detailed description of the event from SVA’s Press Resources page:

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents The Gertrude Stein Paradox, a roundtable discussion led by historian and SVA faculty member Michèle C. Cone about Gertrude Stein, patron of the arts and mercurial author and thinker. The panel discussion coincides with “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” the exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 21 – June 3, 2012. Dr. Cone will be joined in conversation by Mary Ann Caws, distinguished professor of English, French and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and Dean Emerita of the Graduate…

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LEC: Vinegar Hill Monument Proposals Unveiled @ Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

On Friday, April 20th, the nationally renowned sculptors, Melvin Edwards, Preston Jackson, Lorenzo Pace and Rodney Leon will present their past works to the Charlottesville community as part of the jury process to create a monument about Vinegar Hill, the African American neighborhood destroyed by urban renewal in the early 60′s.  This is the first sculpture commissioned by the community since 1926.  It will be sited on the historic Jefferson School, originally founded in 1865 and currently being renovated as a City Center whose heart is the African American Heritage Center.  The event will take place from 5-6:30 at Burley Middle School on Rose Hill Drive.

Melvin Edwards is one of America’s foremost sculptors whose work can be found in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York the Modern Museum of Art, New York and the L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Preston Jackson, a professor of sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago is best known for his figurative work, which can be found in the collections of Perdue University, Lakeview Museum, Peoria and the Waterloo Museum of Art, Waterloo. The design team of Lorenzo Pace and Rodney Leon is recognized for their lower Manhattan visitors’ center and slavery monument that marks the 18th century African burial ground.

Jurors for the competition are Carmenita Higginbotham, assistant professor of American art history specializing in depictions of race in American visual productions of the 1920s and 1930s; Sarah Tanguy curator ART in Embassies, US Department of State, as well as an independent curator and critic based in Washington, DC.; and Franklyn Walker, a local artist whose work describes the African American experience and who grew up in Vinegar Hill.

According to Jefferson School Foundation Chair Martin Burks, “the competition is yet another example of the way in which the Jefferson School Foundation and the African American Heritage Center look for meaningful partnerships that significantly impact the City’s cultural landscape.” He continues, “Partnering with the City’s Dialogue on Race allows us to leverage resources to produce a work that is historically significant, locally and nationally, and further establishes Charlottesville as a location where contemporary artistic production is celebrated.”

For additional information contact Elizabeth Breeden, vinegarhillmonument@gmail.com or 434-977-5411

http://dialogonrace.org/call-to-artists/

ICS Lecture and Screening: Patricia Mohammed’s “The Temples of the Other: The South Asian Aesthetic in the Caribbean” and “Coolie Pink and Green”