Category: Lectures

Alison Kettering, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Art History, Emerita, gave the keynote lecture at the annual Midwest Art History Conference which took place this year in the Twin Cities, March 26 through 28.  Her talk was titled: “From analog to digital: What’s happened to Art History since 1980–Reflections on the last 30 years.”

Jessica Keating, Assistant Professor of Art History, presented a lecture at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas.  Her talk, “A Figure of the Speech: The Verkehrte Welt Automaton”, was part of the Institute’s Ad Astra Lecture Series, which addresses the relationship between art, science, and technology.

Baird Jarman, Associate Professor of Art History, presented “Tammany Hall and the Spectacle of Reconstruction Politics” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Art History Society in Minneapolis on March 28.

Ross Elfline, Assistant Professor of Art History, presented a paper titled “Superstudio and the ‘Refusal to Work'” at the Design Studies Forum devoted to “Rethinking Labor” at the 104th College Art Association Meeting in New York on February 13.

Alison M. Kettering, William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of Art History, presented a paper and led a workshop at the quadrennial conference of Historians of Netherlandish Art in Boston, June 5-7, 2014.  The paper was titled “Confronting Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox in the Louvre,” and the workshop focused on the meanings and associations of objects in 17th-century Dutch genre paintings.

Alison Kettering made a presentation on the “new” Rembrandt portrait in May at the Joslyn Museum, Omaha. The talk was presented in conjunction with the museum’s newly-restored Rembrandt portrait which has, because of the treatment, become firmly re-attributed to Rembrandt.

Marc Simpson, Associate Director of Graduate Studies in Art History at Williams College will present a talk on February 4, 5pm Boliou 104 exploring the early career of Winslow Homer.

Britta Johnson, ’97, will speak about her work at 5 pm followed by a reception to open her exhibit.

Boliou 104 and Gallery

Jessica Rath demos how to make procelain apples, talks about her kickstarter campaign

September 19 and Oct 7 will find David Lefkowitz speaking about his work. In September he will speak at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX on the topic of his work “Lifelike” which has been on display in the gallery since June. The October trip will take him to the New School, NYC where he will be the featured speaker at at the NY Comic and Picture Story Symposium. His topic for that talk will be “NRTHFLD,” a work he installed last year at the Northfield Arts Guild.