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EXH: “Red/Black: Related Through History” @ Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis
February 12, 2011 – August 7, 2011
Explore the interwoven histories of African Americans and Native Americans with Red/Black: Related Through History. This groundbreaking exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Eiteljorg Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Red/Black includes the NMAI panel exhibit IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas and portrays the shared experiences of African and Native Americans as allies and adversaries, through images, artifacts, film and more. The exhibition also explores issues of race and identity and the question: “Who am I and who gets to say so?” Red/Black will be supported by performances, genealogy workshops, lectures and other dynamic programming.
http://www.eiteljorg.org/ejm_WhatsHappening/Exhibitions/Details.asp?ID=2916
“Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century” Symposium, MOLAA/Getty
Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century is a two part symposium that will take place in Southern California and in Lima, Peru. The panel of speakers will be comprised of an international group of scholars, curators, museum directors and artists who will discuss new approaches to studying and presenting Latin American art in the 21st century. The first session, from March 11 – 13, 2011 will be held at MOLAA and at The Getty Center in Los Angeles; the second session, from November 2 – 4, 2011 will be held at the Museo de Arte de Lima in Peru. Both sessions will address the same topics but will introduce different speakers.
EXH: “True Self: The Search for Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art” @ MMoCA
Until June 2011
True Self: The Search for Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art explores the ways artists have understood and conveyed the essence of the self—through facial expression, body language, dress, and the particulars of setting—in a selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs. Drawn from MMoCA’s permanent collection, the exhibition lists a broad range of artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Sonya Clark, Chuck Close, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Leslie, Diego Rivera, Cindy Sherman, Hollis Sigler, Raphael Soyer, and Ida Wyman.
True Self is organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and is on view in the museum’s Henry Street Gallery. Exhibitions in the Henry Street Gallery are generously funded through an endowment established by the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
Course Proposals Sought for 2011 Summer MoMA Courses
Deadline: Monday, March 21, 2011
The Department of Education is seeking new instructors and course proposals for five and eight-week summer MoMA Courses. We also invite previous applicants to re-submit or update existing course proposals. Please feel free to pass along the call-for-proposals to any colleagues outside the Museum who may be interested.
The summer term begins the first week of June and continues through early August. Each class meets once per week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., or in the evenings from 6:00 – 7:50 p.m. or 8:10 – 10:00 p.m. The times may change slightly based on classroom availability and other conflicts. Enrollment is limited to twenty students per class (twelve for studio classes) and classes meet in the Museum’s classrooms, as well as in the galleries when they are available. A class may be cancelled if it does not meet enrollment requirements (a minimum of twelve students). The stipend for course instructors is $2,400 for an eight-week course and $1,500 for a five-week course. Prior teaching experience is required.
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The Idea of Archive—Producing and Performing Race, Duke University Library
February 25 – 26, 2011
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Research Center, the Duke University Libraries and the Office of the Provost present the inaugural Atelier @ Duke, a series of panel discussions on “The Idea of Archive—Producing and Performing Race.” This program is free and open to the public.
Mel Edwards & Jayne Cortez, Visual/Verbal Dialogue, University of Delaware
Paul R. Jones Annual Lecture presents:
Mel Edwards and Jayne Cortez
Visual/Verbal Dialogue
March 7, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Longtime partners, Melvin Edwards and Jayne Cortez are internationally renowned artists. Their professional work comes together on occasion, as in the illustrations Edwards provides for Cortez’s writings and her poems inspired by his sculptures. This rare collaborative presentation provides an exceptional opportunity for their personal, political and artistic voices to come together publicly in celebration of the arts and their liberatory capacity.
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Black Studies in Art & Design Education Conference @ Parsons
For more information contact Coco Fusco at fuscoc@newschool.edu or visit our webpage: http://finearts.parsons.edu/home/?q=node/56
EXH: “Material Girls” @ Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore
BLACK WOMEN PRESENT THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORKS IN MATERIAL GIRLS EXHIBITION AT REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM
http://www.africanamericanculture.org/materialgirls.html
January 25, 2011 (BALTIMORE, MD) — Thirty-eight three-dimensional works of art by eight black women artists will be featured in the special exhibition, Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum from February 12 to October 16, 2011. This exhibition celebrates the traditions of skill, innovation and creativity practiced by black women, both past and present.
Material Girls features an impressive lineup of artists at varying points in their careers including Chakaia Booker, Sonya Clark, Torkwase Dyson, Maya Freelon Asante, Maren Hassinger, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Joyce J. Scott and Renée Stout. This exhibition highlights the materials they prod, ply and piece together in works that play on unique cultural meanings, personal memories and social agendas.
Curated by Dr. Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Material Girls explores the intersection of art and craft with works of art made with both traditional mediums—wood, clay, paper and glass—and non-traditional ones—rubber tires, plastic bags, model cars and human hair. Works on view feature intimate, handcrafted beadwork to monumental sculptures with industrial materials weighing over 1,000 pounds.
“The caliber and creativity of these artists is astounding,” notes Dr. Wilkinson. “Their sculptural works have a highly sensory appeal, ranging from the gleaming visual surfaces of hand blown glass to the coarse textures of volcanic stone. A key concern is environmental issues, and many of the artists use recycled materials in their works.”
“This original exhibition is a landmark moment in the museum’s history,” says Executive Director Dr. David Taft Terry. “Material Girls is a contemporary art exhibition that draws on the history of African American material culture. We are delighted to work with such an esteemed group of black women artists.”
The Material Girls 48-page catalogue will be available for $20 in the museum shop during the run of the exhibition
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Anatomy/Academy Graduate Symposium @ PAFA
March 26, 2011, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Free after museum admission.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will host a graduate symposium in
conjunction with the exhibition *Anatomy/Academy: Nexus of Art and Science*
In tribute to Philadelphia’s historical importance as a center for the
artistic and anatomical study of the human body, this symposium examines the
body in relation to the material and visual culture of American art,
focusing on how Philadelphia’s dynamic art and science communities fostered
knowledge of the human body from the early nineteenth century to the
present.
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