| ARTICULATIONS II: Art Appreciation Lecture Series |
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TUESDAYS 7 to 9 PM *Please note that Trevor Boddy's lecture on Tuesday, November 10 will take place at The University of Lethbridge in room D634 The second installment of Articulations: Art Appreciation Lecture Series will offer participants an introduction to a broad spectrum of key individuals, moments, issues and ideas that have influenced the production of art over the past century. Renowned artists, historians, and other arts professionals will share their insight and expertise, providing an occasion in which to think critically and engage in conversations about art.
THEME 1: Women and Art Jennie Sorkin is a PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at Yale University. She is on the Faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and at the Yale School of Art. Her writing has appeared in the New Art Examiner, Art Journal, Art Monthly, Frieze, NU: The Nordic Art Review, Modern Painters, and Third Text. She has written numerous in-depth catalog essays on feminist topics and artists. She has been a visiting critic at Cal Arts, Ohio University, SVA, Yale School of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Art Journal Award and in 2008, an ACLS/Luce Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Since 1997, Mitchell has been melding feminism and pop culture to play with contemporary ideas about sexuality, autobiography, and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craft. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals across Canada, the US, Europe and East Asia. Allyson Mitchell: Ladies Sasquatch is on exhibit at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery from September 8 – October 30. She is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies at York University. Sept 22: Permission: The Works & Mentorship of Lisa Steele Dana Inkster has a Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies, Concordia University and a BA Political Studies (Minor Film), Queen's University. She teaches in the area of media arts and video production at the University of Lethbridge. Her art practice and research investigate the bounds of cultural representation and expectations of narrative in non-fiction. She has been profiled by numerous critics, journalists, and cultural theorists around the world. Her work spans a variety of genres, from experimental video art to broadcast television documentaries, selections of which have been acquired on all continents. Leslie Dawn received his doctorate in art history from the University of British Columbia. His research investigated problems in the construction of Canadian national identities, colonial landscapes, and the representations of Native peoples in Western Canada by the Group of Seven, as well as how Native groups modified, resisted and used these programs to negotiate a space for ensuring the continuity of their traditional cultures. His book National Visions National Blindness: Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s was published by UBC Press and his essay "The Englishness of Canadian Art" was included in the anthology Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art, edited by John O'Brian and Peter White. Oct 13: Dialogues in the White Cube: Acquisitions for the Contemporary Collection at the National Gallery of Canada Jonathan Shaughnessy is Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Originally from Ottawa, he completed his BFA, Art History, at Concordia University and received an MA in Communications from Carleton University. In 2007 he curated the only Canadian date for the mid-career retrospective exhibition Ron Mueck, organized by the National Gallery of Canada, the Fondation Cartier de l'art contemporain, Paris, and the Brooklyn Museum. Oct 20: The Venice Biennale: Canada's Foreign Affair Barbara Fischer is the Director/Curator of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, University of Toronto, as well as Senior Lecturer in Curatorial Studies in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto. She has curated and written catalogue essays for solo exhibitions for many Canadian artists, as well as one of the most widely circulated exhibitions internationally: “General Idea Editions 1967-1995”. Fischer has taught courses and lectured across Canada on issues in contemporary art and curatorial studies. She is the recipient of the 2008 Hnatyshyn Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art and curated the exhibition Mark Lewis: Cold Morning, at the Canada Pavilion, for the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. Gerald Forseth is a Calgary architect, urban designer, researcher, teacher, writer, curator, exhibitor and traveller with keen interests in and contributions to the public realm, archaeology, culture, history, traditions, politics, contemporary art, sculpture and architecture. He has lectured at the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Mount Royal College and Glenbow Museum. He curated the exhibitions Calgary Modern at the Nickle Arts Museum and Lethbridge Modern at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Nov 3: The Lethbridge Connection Victoria Baster teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge where she introduces the Art Now and Architecture & Design Now series of public presentations by invited speakers. She has held curatorial positions in a number of institutions in Alberta, including the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Glenbow Museum in Calgary, and the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. In addition, she has worked as an independent curator and has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues. With Gerald Forseth, she was co-curator of the 2002 exhibition, Lethbridge Modern: Aspects of architectural modernism in Lethbridge from 1945-1970 and curator of The Buchanan Connection, part of that exhibition project. Since studying architecture and design history at the University of East Anglia in England, her research interests have encompassed late 19th-century design and visual culture, mid-20th-century design in Canada, and contemporary architecture and design and themed environments. Nov 10: Arthur Erickson and The University of Lethbridge Trevor Boddy is a critic, curator, and historian of architecture, as well as a consultant for urban design. He has written extensively on architecture and cities for a variety of newspapers, journals, and magazines, including The Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Seattle Times, Canadian Architect, Architectural Review, Architectural Record, as well as numerous international design magazines. Boddy holds a Master’s degree in architecture, and has taught studio architecture, history, and urbanism at universities across North America. He is the curator of the major exhibition “Vancouverism: Westcoast Architecture and City-building” which opened in Paris after showing in London’s Canada House in the summer of 2008. |
