Previous Lectures and Workshops

Previous Lectures and Workshops:
2007 |2006 |2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

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Fall 2008

October 16, 5:00pm
Classroom 1, Art Building
Dr. Joyce Szabo, Professor of Art History, University of New Mexico, will lecture on the Cheyenne warrior-artist Howling Wolf.

October 27, 7:00-9:00pm
Craig Auditorium, Science Center
Kate Bredeson, Lecturer of Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago, will present "From Odéon to Avignon: Theater and Performance of May '68."

October 28, 4:30-6:00pm
AMAM/Classroom 1
A viewing of the exhibition Aux Barricades! will be followed by a discussion led by Libby Murphy, Assistant Professor of French, and Andria Derstine, AMAM Curator of Western Art.

October 29, 7:00-10:00pm
Severance 108
A screening of Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise will be accompanied with commentary by Grace An, Assistant Professor of French and Cinema Studies.

October 30, 7:00-9:00pm
Craig Auditorium, Science Center
Kristin Ross, Professor of Comparative Literature, NYU, and author of May '68 and Its Afterlives, will speak on the events during May 1968.

Saturday, November 8 – 5:00pm
A jazz concert marking the 60th anniversary of the start of construction on Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Usonian style home in Ohio, this concert is also held as part of Oberlin College’s 175th Anniversary festivities. Tickets are $15/adult, and available in advance of the concert. Please contact the AMAM Education Department for more information.

November 13, 4:30pm
Classroom 1, Art Building
Dr. Anne Helmreich, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, will present "What is so British about British Art?"

November 13, 7:30pm
Classroom 2, Art Building
Professor Marcello Barbanera, Università di Roma, La Sapienza, will lecture on "The Metamorphosis of Ruins for Cultural Identity."

Spring 2008

Thursday, April 17, 4:30pm
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building
(Reception to follow - East Gallery)

Lecture by Dr. George Keyes (OC 1968), Chief Curator and Curator of European Art, Detroit
Institute of Arts, on the collecting of old master paintings by midwestern museums, and aspects of Northern Baroque art at the AMAM .
(Sponsored in part by the Oberlin Alumni Association)

Monday, April 21, 4:30pm
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building

Lecture by Dr. Carol Eaton Soltis, Consulting Curator, The Center for American Art,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, on "Painting Portraits in Philadelphia, 1790 - 1860".
(Sponsored in part by the Art Department Baldwin Fund)

Friday, May 2, 4:00pm
Ripin Print Gallery

To celebrate the gift of 153 photographs to the Allen Memorial Art Museum from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Dr. Andria Derstine, Curator of Western Art, will conduct a tour of the exhibition and discuss the importance of the gift to the AMAM collection.

Friday, May 9, 3:30pm
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building

Presentation by Ms. Lisa Wisniewski, Creative Manager - Antenna Audio/Discovery Media, Inc.
Ms. Wisniewski will be speaking about the growing field of museum interpretive technologies, and some of her work on projects around the country, including the reinstallation of the Detroit Institute of Arts collection which incorporates a large number of interpretive technologies to help engage the casual visitor.
(Sponsored by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council)

REUNION/COMMENCEMENT WEEKEND PROGRAMS

Friday, May 23, 2:00pm
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building

Stephanie Wiles, John G. W. Cowles Director, will talk about exciting developments for the Allen as we approach our centennial anniversary.

Saturday, May 24, 2:00pm
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building

Andria Derstine, AMAM Curator of Western Art, will lecture on the AMAM's new François Boucher painting, Allegory of the Education of Louis XV.

2007

Tuesday, September 18, 7:00 pm
Ellen Johnson Gallery

Contemporary artist Diana Cooper responds to works on display in the exhibition, "Repeat Performances: Seriality and Systems Art Since 1960," and discusses ways in which Minimalism has effected her own art and working processes.

Thursday, October 18, 5:00 pm
Weltzheimer-Johnson House

Bruce Richards, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will discuss Oberlin College's Frank Lloyd Wright House in his lecture, "Weltzheimer-Johnson House: Good for Performance?"

Friday and Saturday, November 9 & 10
West Auditorium, OC Science Center

"Global Compass" - Five International Curators and Critics Give Their Perspectives on Art Now
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Thursday, November 15, 5:00 pm
Allen Art Building, Classroom 1

"The Connoisseurship of Drawings"
In conjunction with the exhibition On Line: European Drawings, 16th - 19th Centuries, Dr. Diane
De Grazia, a noted specialist on European Art, will lecture on the connoisseurship of drawings, with particular focus on the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Friday, November 16, 4:00 pm
King Sculpture Court

"A Celebration in Honor of William Hood"
Please join the Allen Memorial Art Museum and the Art Department of Oberlin College in celebrating
the career of William Hood, Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art. Click here for a complete list of speakers.

"A Celebration of Baroque Music for the Bassoon"
Bassoon professor George Sakakeeny of the Oberlin College Conservatory will be joined by Catharina
Caldwell, Webb Wiggins, Michael Lynn, and Kathie Lynn Stewart in a concert of French, Italian, and
German music of the 17th and 18th centuries, for bassoon, cello, harpsichord, and baroque flutes. Works
by composers Corrette, Bertoli, Boismortier and Telemann will be featured.

Heather Galloway, conservator, Intermuseum Conservation Association, will discuss the recent conservation of the AMAM’s early Sol LeWitt work 49 Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes.

Photographer Philip Trager discusses his work in the exhibition Philip Trager: A Retrospective in the AMAM’s Stern Gallery, with a reception following.

Charles Beebe Martin Classical Lectures
Craig Lecture Hall, Oberlin College Science Center

Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge, is the speaker for the Charles Beebe Martin Classical Lectures, sponsored by the Oberlin Department of Classics. The AMAM has recently reinstalled a selection of Greek, Cypriot, Etruscan and Roman art in conjunction with the lecture series. Professor Osborne’s theme is “The Politics of Pictorial Representation in Early Athenian Democracy.”

Architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown join former AMAM director and art department chair Richard Spear in recollections of the 1977 addition to the AMAM building and the Art Building. Frederick Fisher (OC 1971) of Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects in Los Angeles will briefly talk about the impact the building had on the development of his career.

This conference has been organized with support from the Clarence Ward Lectureship in Architecture

New Frontiers: American Art Since 1945
Saturday, October 28
King Sculpture Court, 2:00 pm

An Oberlin student ensemble will play works from 1950 to the present in conjunction with the exhibition New Frontiers

"An Insider Look at the American Painting Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art"
Thursday, November 2
Classroom 1, 4:30 pm

Mark Cole, Associate Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the CMA, will discuss highlights from their American Paintings collection and outline the history of collecting at the CMA, relating it to the development of the discipline of American art history as a whole.

Sanford Hirsch, Executive Director of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, will speak on Gottlieb’s work in conjunction with the opening reception of Adolph Gottlieb: Early Prints from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.

Join Professor Nicholas Jones to examine John Keats' poem "Ode to Psyche" and Jacques-Louis David's great painting Cupid and Psyche in the context of post-Napoleonic Europe.

Performing Images, Embodying Race
Ellen Johnson Gallery
Friday, February 24, 4:00 pm

Robert Lancefield, curator of Performing Images, Embodying Race, will discuss the exhibition.

Support for this lecture has been provided by Oberlin College's grant from the Freeman Foundation Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative.

April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building
Friday, March 3, 4:30 pm

Lecture by April Gornik on the current exhibition April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings

"American Luminism"
King Building, 106, 10 North Professor Street
Thursday, April 13, 4:30 pm

William H. Gerdts, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, will present the Fifteenth Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture.

"Negotiating 'Looking Relations' in San Francisco's Chinese Opera Theaters"
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building
Tuesday, April 25, 4:30 pm

Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Associate Professor of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University

Support for this lecture has been provided by Oberlin College's grant from the Freeman Foundation Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative.

"The Weltzheimer/Johnson House in Context: Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses"
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building
Friday, April 28, 4:30 pm

Japanese Woodblock Priniting
October 8, 2:00 pm
Fisher Hall
Artist and master woodblock printmaker Keiji Shinohara will give a free lecture and demonstration on traditional and contemporary hanga (Japanese woodblock printing). Currently a Visiting Artist at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connectiuct, he studied traditional ukiyo-e techniques at Uesugi Studio in Kyoto, Japan for 10 years. Shinohara creates stunning prints of his own and has also worked closely with such artists as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Chuck Close.

Trace Elements
Thursday, November 3, 5:00 pm
Classroom 1, Art Building
Jennie Hirsh, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, will discuss the faculty exhibition on view in the Stern and Johnson Galleries.

Marble Wilderness: Greek Landscapes in Myth and Art
May 5, 5:00 pm
Classroom 1
Claire Lyons, Collections Curator, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, "Marble Wilderness: Greek Landscapes in Myth and Art"
^{Sponsored by the Department of Art's Baldwin lecture fund}

Jim Dine, Then and Now
May 27, 3:00 pm
Classroom 1
Stephanie Wiles, Director of the AMAM, will discuss works in the current Jim Dine drawings exhibition and the artist's first one-man museum show, which was held at the Allen in 1965.

What is Technical Art History?
May 28, 2:30 pm
Classroom 1
Maryan W. Ainsworth (OC '71), Curator of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will discuss her interdisciplinary approach to the study of paintings.

Finding Ruins
May 29, 2:30 pm
Classroom 1
Stephen D. Borys, Curator of Western Art, will speak about the Splendor of Ruins exhibition currently on view at the museum.

Books from the Grand Tour: Architecture, Archaeology and the Dilettante
March 11, 4:30 pm
Clarence Ward Art Library
Joshua Castano (OC '06) will speak at the Clarence Ward Birthday Celebration on his exhibition project Books from the Grand Tour: Architecture, Archaeology and the Dilettante. This show will be on view in the Clarence Ward Art Library from March 11–June 1, 2005

The Ghosts of Old Rome: Classical Ruins and the Grand Tour
April 14, 5:00 pm
Classroom 1
Edgar Peters Bowron, Audrey Jones Beck Curator of European Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "The Ghosts of Old Rome: Classical Ruins and the Grand Tour"
^{Sponsored by the Department of Art's Baldwin lecture fund}

Claude and Architecture: Sources, Contexts, Meanings
April 21, 5:00 pm
Classroom 1
T. Barton Thurber, Curator of European Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, "Claude and Architecture: Sources, Contexts, Meanings"
^{Co-sponsored by the AMAM and Department of Art's Chloe H. Young Lectureship fund}

Jim Dine: Reading Between the Lines
April 26, 5:00 pm
Classroom 1
Judith Brodie, Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
"Jim Dine: Reading Between the Lines"

2004

Christian Holstad
April 8, 2004, 4:30 pm
Classroom 1, Ward Art Building
Christian Holstad, whose work has been selected for this year's Whitney Biennial in New York, is the creator of When the Color Runs Out , which is featured in the current AMAM exhibition Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture .

Lecture
Rona Pondick
May 12, 7:00 pm
Classroom 1, Ward Art Building
Groundbreaking artist Rona Pondick's work (her Baby Blue is featured in the current AMAM exhibition Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture ) is the subject of Rona Pondick: Recent Work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, from May 14≠August 8, 2004.

Dennis Doordan
Clarence Ward Lecture in Architectural History
March 14, 2004, 4:30pm
Classroom 1, Ward Art Building

The Curious Case of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Cold War, presented by Dennis Doordan, Professor of Architecture and Desighn History, University of Notre Dame. Dr. Doordan's talk concerns the 1951 Italian exhibition, Sixty Years of Living Architecture, and early example of American cultural diplomacy during the Cold War. Wright's concept of Usonia figured porminently in European and American responses the exhibition, and and the shows centerpiece was the famous large modle of Broadcre City.

2003

Katherine Solender
Prince of Orange Lecture
Friday, November 7, 2003, 2:30pm
Stern Gallery
Acting Director Katherine Solender will give a 2:30 gallery talk on J.M.W. Turner's historic painting Prince of Orange, William III, Embarked for Holland, and landed at Torbay, November 4, 1688, after a Stormy Passage. Prince of Orange is on loan from the Tate Britain and can be seen in Stern gallery from mid-October, 2003 through Spring, 2004.

2002

Dr. Jeffrey Hamburger
Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture
Monday, October 14, 2002, 4:30 p.m.
Fisher Hall

Dr. Jeffrey Hamburger, Professor of Art History, Harvard University, will give a talk in Fisher Hall entitled St John the Divine: Imitating the Image of God.

Janice Lessman-Moss
Lecture/Demonstration
Saturday, April 27, 2002 - 2:00 p.m.
Art Building, Classroom 1
Professor Janice Lessman-Moss, Head of the Textile Arts program at Kent State University, will give a weaving demonstration and talk about the use of textiles as a creative art form.

Walter Denny
Classical Carpets from the Islamic World and the Nomadic Tradition
Sunday, March 17, 2002 - 2:00 p.m.
Art Building, Classroom 1
Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Environmental Center
Distinguished scholar Walter Denny (OC 1964) is Director of the Art History Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His primary field of research is the art and architecture of the Islamic world, in particular, the artistic traditions of the Ottoman Turks and Islamic carpets. In his lecture, Professor Denny will discuss the role of nomadic weaving traditions in forming and influencing the history of Islamic carpets from the 14th century onward.

Thomas Barfield
In the Land of Wool and Silk: The Historic Role of Nomads in Central Asian Culture, Trade, and Politics
Thursday, March 7, 2002 - at 7:00 p.m.
Art Building, Classroom 1
Professor Thomas Barfield, Chairman of the Anthropology Department at
Boston University, has conducted fieldwork among nomads in northern
Afghanistan; research on the cultural and economic impacts on the Kazaks in
China from the disbanding of the failed collective units established in the
1950s; and most recently, work on refugee repatriation and war
reconstruction for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

2001

Patrick Killoran
Performative Object
Friday, December 7, 2001 - 4:30 p.m.
Classroom 1, Art Building
This young New York-based artist, who has shown at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, the Sydney Biennial, and MOMA's P.S. 1 in Queens, and was a fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, is a conceptual and performance artist.

Fred Wilson
The Silent Message of the Museum
September 20, 2001 - 4:30 p.m.
Fisher Hall
Fred Wilson is a conceptual artist whose installations examine the relationship between museums and the societies they serve and represent. He is best known for his Mining the Museum installation at the Maryland Historical Society in 1994. He has been the subject of numerous art critical essays and reviews in journals such as Artforum, and news media such as The New York Times and Village Voice. Wilson has earned several prestigious grants and awards including one from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1999.