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Visit UCL’s youtube channel to watch our new short film discussing the project. The film focuses on art and the Black presence in Bloomsbury and highlights some of the artwork created by Slade School of Fine Art students during the interwar period.
The Emory University Art History Department announces two positions, beginning Fall 2013:
Art History – African Art – Tenure Track
Assistant Professor. The Art History Department seeks a specialist in African art, late 19th century to the present, with ability to teach introductory courses in African art of earlier periods. Responsibilities will include undergraduate and graduate teaching, supervision of B.A. and Ph.D. theses, and participation in the interdisciplinary African Studies program. Ph.D. required. Teaching experience preferred. Send letter of application, vita, and three letters of reference to Angie Brewer, Art History Department, Carlos Hall, 571 South Kilgo Circle, Emory University, Atlanta, GA30322. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY ONLINE FOR THIS POSITION. Application deadline, January 3, 2013. Emory University is an EEO/AA employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply for this position.
Art History – Generalist (with American Specialty) – Lecture Track
The Art History department seeks a full-time Lecturer in Art History, beginning in the Fall of 2013. We are seeking a generalist to coordinate our two-semester Introduction to the History of Art survey, to supervise the training of graduate student instructors for that course, and to teach courses in an area of expertise, preferably American art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ph.D. required. Applicants should have at least two years’ teaching experience and be prepared to engage in the life of the department, College and University through service and academic committees. The appointment will be at the level of Lecturer with a track for possible promotion to Senior Lecturer and Professor of Pedagogy. For details on Emory’s lecture track opportunities please see: http:college.emory.edu/home/administration/policy/lecturer.html. Application deadline, January 3. A letter of application stating qualifications, a curriculum vitae, and 3 letters of recommendation should be sent to Angie Brewer, Art History Department, Emory University, Carlos Hall, 571 South Kilgo Circle, Atlanta GA, 30322. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY ONLINE FOR THIS POSITION. Emory is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.
Rollins College, Art and Art History Department
Assistant Professor of Art History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45880
Institution Type: College / University
Location: Florida, United States
Position: Assistant Professor
The Department of Art and Art History seeks an Assistant Professor of Art History, tenure track, to teach the visual culture of Africa and the Diaspora, in any geographical and chronological periods. Ph.D. and teaching experience required; scholarly productivity expected.
Primary area of expertise may be in either Africa or the Diaspora, but the successful candidate must be able to teach in both areas. Especially welcome are applicants with interests in interdisciplinary teaching, the development of courses addressing cross-cultural themes, and international experiences.
Preference will be given to applicants with a background in internationalization, community engagement, and/or digital humanities. Opportunities exist for participation with the college’s Cornell Fine Arts Museum, The Africa/African-American Studies Program, and nearby Eatonville.
Rollins supports teaching and scholarship that addresses developing countries. Duties include curriculum development, advising, and other service to the department and to the college.
Please include cover letter, statement of teaching philosophy, and CV listing at least 3 references. Finalists will be contacted about submitting letters of recommendation. Review of applications will begin November 28, 2012 and will continue until position is filled.
Contact:
Professor Kimberly Dennis
Department of Art and Art History
Rollins College
1000 Holt Avenue 2676
Winter Park, FL 32789
Website: http://www.rollins.edu
Primary Category: Art and Art History
Secondary Categories: African American History / Studies
Posting Date: 11/09/2012
Closing Date 01/28/2013
The applications for the 2013-2014 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available at www.borenawards.org. Boren Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.
For the third year in a row, through the African Languages Initiative funding is available for Boren Scholars and Fellows to study one of the following languages at the University of Florida’s summer 2013 program prior to commencing their overseas Boren funded programs.
• Akan/Twi
• Hausa
• Swahili
• Wolof
• Yoruba
• Zulu
In addition, African Languages Initiative overseas programs are available for intensive language and cultural study during fall semester 2013 in the following countries.
• Mozambique (Portuguese)
• Tanzania (Swahili)
• Nigeria (Yoruba)
• South Africa (Zulu)
For a full explanation of the African Languages Initiative, including information on the domestic and overseas programs, please go to http://www.borenawards.org and look under announcements on the left side of the page.
For more information about the Boren Awards and the African Languages Initiative, to register for one of our upcoming webinars, and to access the on-line application, please visit http://www.borenawards.org. You can also contact the Boren Awards staff atboren@iie.org or 1-800-618-NSEP with questions.
Winston Salem State University and the Department of Art + Visual Studies
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), a historically Black, regional, comprehensive, liberal arts university is one of the 17 constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont Triad, the university enrolls over 6,000 students, employs more than 400 full-time faculty members, and offers more than 40 undergraduate programs, eleven graduate programs and one doctoral program.
The Department of Art + Visual Studies offers a major in Art, with two concentrations: Studio Art, and Computer Graphics. Art majors culminate their study with a Senior Thesis Exhibition held annually in the spring in Diggs Gallery. A minor in Art is also offered. In addition to the courses taken by majors and minors, the department also serves a wide variety of students through the university’s General Education curriculum. Classes in drawing, painting, photography, computer graphics and art history are offered, as are innovative Liberal Learning seminars.
Title: Seeking to hire an Assistant Professor of Art History (Position #6084-0000-0000-132). This is a 9 month, tenure-track position.
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The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College seeks a Curator of African Art. The curator is responsible for the documentation, research, preservation, and growth of the historic and contemporary African art collection as well as oversight of the museum’s activity in other areas, such as Oceanic art. The curator is responsible for permanent collection and loan exhibitions related to their expertise and collection area.
Responsibilities include: advising the museum director on matters concerning the collections including documentation, care and disposition; researching and proposing new acquisitions to the museum’s director and acquisition committee; and proposing ideas for original exhibitions that place the collection in cultural and historical context. In addition, the curator organizes all aspects of scheduled exhibitions in their area, manages and implements exhibitions borrowed from other institutions, and collaborates with education and academic programming staff to develop and implement a wide range of interpretive programs based on the collection and exhibitions. The curator engages with Dartmouth faculty and students, providing expertise on museum objects for use by departments for teaching.
Job Requirements
The curator will hold either a Ph.D. in Art History or Anthropology with an emphasis on African art and culture; knowledge and understanding of curatorial practices; museum experience working with collections preferred.
Contact:
If you have questions about the position or its requirements, please contact Juliette Bianco, Assistant Director, Hood Museum of Art at 603-646-3646 or juliette.bianco@dartmouth.edu.
To apply, attach a letter of application, curriculum vitae to the on-line application at
http://jobs.dartmouth.edu/search for position #0013400.
Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity employer.
Posting Date: 11/08/2012
Closing Date 04/01/2013
Institute of Fine Arts at New York University
March 7 – 9, 2013
Deadline: December 7, 2012
Symposium – “Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas”
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Institute of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the upcoming graduate student conference, “Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas,” which will include keynote lectures by Jennifer Roberts (Harvard University) and Irene Small (Princeton University).
This international graduate student symposium will focus on the North and South American landscape in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and seeks to explore mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice from a hemispheric perspective. How can the “map” as an intellectual model both unite diverse cultures and modes of knowledge as well as highlight their differences?
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. As the scholar Donna Haraway contends, “maps are models of worlds crafted through and for specific practices of intervening and ways of life.” The conference will use this 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. Though maps are often taken as straightforward, objective configurations, they can also expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance.
Speakers are encouraged to address not only more traditional forms of landscape art, but also non-traditional approaches and media. Subjects may include European artists depicting the North or South American landscape, or artists from the Americas confronting their own geography. Mapping may engage with ideological issues (imperialism and nationality), representational paradigms (realism and abstraction), or questions of the body (sexuality, ethnicity, mortality).
Possible topics might include:
– indigenous cartography
– traveler artists and explorers
– survey or aerial photography
– nineteenth-century panoramas
– abstraction and the landscape
– American WPA projects
– Mexican muralists
– ethnographic photography
– art and Caribbean mercantilism
– site-specific land art
– genetic/chromosonal mapping
– natural history and botanical illustration
– neuroaesthetics
– performance art
With generous funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the conference will provide a significant opportunity for the exchange of ideas between emerging scholars from around the world who would not otherwise have the chance to share their work. The deadline for the submission of a 20-minute presentation proposal is Friday, December 7, 2012. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by Friday, January 18, 2013. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Papers will be given in English but may be made available in other languages through the conference website. Current graduate students as well as recent graduates are encouraged to apply. Funds for travel and accommodations are available. Please send an abstract and CV to ifaMapping@gmail.com. In your application please indicate your current institutional affiliation and from where you would be traveling.
The conference is organized by Dr. Jennifer Raab, Kara Fiedorek, and Lizzie Frasco, and is supported by grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
For further information or with any questions, please contact ifaMapping@gmail.com.
See also: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-mapping.htm
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 Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism seeks a historian of North American art, 1865-1945, with expertise in diverse cultures and methodologies to begin August 2013. Open rank.
The successful candidate will contribute to the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism’s MA and undergraduate programs in Art History, providing undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, and master’s thesis supervision. The appointee will also be an active participant in the education of studio artists, architects, and arts professionals at the MFA, MA and BFA levels, and will contribute to the vibrant and creative culture of a prestigious art school. Faculty are expected to maintain active professional practices and also participate in departmental and school-wide committees and service.
By December 1, 2012 please submit complete application materials at http://SAICfaculty.slideroom.com. You will be asked to create an account, then complete the application which is a combination of fill-in fields and uploaded documents. Complete the fields for contact information, educational background, and professional references. Required files to upload include: letter of introduction stating your interests and qualifications; résumé, and writing samples (PDF files recommended).
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