Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

Fall 2007

December 6-16th, 2007
Representing America: Ties that Bind and Lines that Divide.
Student-curated exhibition in the Walker Art Building's Zuckert Seminar Room.
Student-led gallery talks will take place Saturday, Dec. 8th at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and Tuesday, Dec. 11th at 3:30 p.m.
The exhibition, which examines several thematic representations of American life over 150 years, is the culmination of Professor Linda Docherty's Fall 2007 course "Art and Life." The intensive, hands-on class in art history and museum work brought students into the Museum even before it reopened its doors in October 2007.
Academic Spotlight: Students as Curators: Art and Life Mix it Up

David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest UniversityThursday, Sept. 27, 2007
David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University
Art for War's Sake:  WWI and American Visual Culture
Location: TBD 7:30 pm

Professor Lubin teaches courses in the history of art, film, and popular culture. As an undergraduate, Lubin studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema while reviewing music for Rolling Stone magazine. His books include Act of Portrayal, Picturing a Nation, and Titanic, an in-depth critical analysis of the recent blockbuster. He has lectured at colleges, universities, and art museums throughout the U.S., Europe, and China. His latest book, Shooting Kennedy, examines the photographic portrayal of Jack and Jackie Kennedy from their public courtship in 1953 to the events of Dallas ten years later. In 2004 Lubin was awarded the Smithsonian Institution's Charles Eldredge Prize for "outstanding scholarship in American art."

M.E. Warlick, Associate Professor of Art History, University of DenverWednesday, October 31, 2007
M.E. Warlick, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Denver
The Chemical Wedding: Marriage and Sexuality in the Alchemical Vessel
Location: TBD 4 pm

Ellen Miles, Curator, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Ellen Miles, Curator, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Collection Cameos: Presidential Portraits: Past and Present
Location: TBD 7:30 pm

Ellen G. Miles is Curator and Chair of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. She recently served as co-curator of "Gilbert Stuart", an exhibition organized jointly by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Portrait Gallery in 2004-2005, and is co-author of the exhibition's catalogue. She holds a PhD in art history from Yale University and is one of this country's leading experts on American portraiture. Among her many publications are Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years , A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery, and the essay "Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of George Washington", in George Washington: A National Treasure. In 2002, Dr. Miles was a recipient of a Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship and in 2004 she was selected at the Smithsonian as the Secretary's Distinguished Research Lecturer.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Christiane Joost-Gaugier, Art Historian
Collection Cameos:  Nature and the Abstract: Pontormo, Beccafumi and the Early Beginnings of Modern Art
Location: TBD 7 pm