FAAH Past Events - Fall 2009

from Prof. Hicks:

Please join the downtown outdoor artist market Arts On Foot this Saturday, September 12, from 11am- 5pm for the latest hand-crafted functional ceramic works created by Joe Hicks Ceramics. These very exciting new designs marry wheel thrown and fabric-like, soft-slab vessels with the practicality of everyday use. They will be presented for vending on the corner of 9th and F streets in Penn Quarter.

Arts On Foot is an anual event in front of the Museum of American Art on F between 7th and 9th streets. In its 17th year, Arts On Foot is a growing and exciting downtown festival containing many artists, live music, and food from surrounding resturaunts for the entire afternoon.

Please visit:

www.joehicksceramics.com
www.artsonfoot.org

Visiting Artist/Scholar Committee Meeting Wednesday, 16 September, 6 PM in A-101

Open to all Fine Arts and Art History undergraduate majors, MA and MFA students. This committee of students and faculty members has been formed to invite a number of local, national and international artists and scholars to campus for one or two day visits.

Attendees to the next meeting should bring a short list of candidates, preferably art historians and artists that will be in the Washington area for an event or fellowship this fall. Also bring some sense of their schedule and how you plan to contact them, if they are selected.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the German parliament in Bonn voted for Berlin as the new capital for East and West Germany (1991). The interwoven layers of past and present have turned Berlin into a vast case study on how to deal with memory and history in a democratic society. In their lecture, conceptual artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock will examine memorials and the interaction of politics, history, the media, architecture, art, and the public sphere.

Sponsored by the Department of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures; the Department of Fine Arts and Art History; the Department of History; and the Judaic Studies Program

U.S. Department of the Interior Museum Presents
Erika Doss
Chair and Professor at the University of Notre Dame Department of American Studies

Indians, Corn, and the American West
Maynard Dixon's New Deal Mural for the U.S. Department of the Interior

Explore the complexities surrounding government-funded art projects during the 1930s, and how American artist Maynard Dixon negotiated with New Deal tastemakers in his depiction of modern American Indians and the American West. Following the lecture, visitors are invited to view Dixon's Themes of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Indian and Soldier and Indian and Teacher murals in the Main Interior Building.

Saturday, September 19
2:00-3:30pm
Interior Museum Classroom

U.S. Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240

www.doi.gov/interiormuseum

Summer Student Exhibition
Smith Hall of Art South Hallway
July 17 - September 18

This exhibition consists of drawings that were completed during the 2009 Summer Session Drawing 1 course. The class covers a variety of observational drawing techniques meant to provide a foundation for further art study and increase a student's awareness of artistic traditions.

Even Exchange
George Washington University/American University Exchange Exhibitions
September 14 - October 2, 2009

GW MFA students (second/finishing years) Chanan Delivuk, Sarah Koss, Jacqueline Levine, Patrick McDonough, Maureen O'Connell, and Teresa Sites will feature their work on the first floor of the Rotunda in the Katzen Center at American University.

Second year MFA students at American (Brendan Loper, Rachel Sitkin, Claire Feng, Annette Isham, Carlie Leadjeld, Matthew Shelley, Jerri Castillo, Megan Rees,Yumi Hogan, Amy Kreiger, and Mindy Hirt) will feature their work in our Classroom 102 Gallery.

Friday October 9, 2009 @ 5:30pm
1957 E Street, NW
City View Room – 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20052

Light refreshments will be served before and after the event – please join us!

ABSTRACT: Religions are powerful communities of feeling. They structure human relations in patterns that rely on media and the arts to do cultural work such as nurture children, disseminate information, and order forms of association by arousing and managing common sentiments. In 18th and 19th c. Europe and North America, a discourse of “sympathy” or fellow-feeling was the basis of moral conduct and the glue of social life. Images have played an important role in mediating sympathy by promoting moral causes, acting as propaganda, and eliciting deeply-felt reactions to injustices. Yet the felt-life of religion exhibits a tension between compassion and solidarity. By scrutinizing how images were used to generate sympathy, we are able to see how the sense of community depends on both feeling for some (sympathy) and feeling against others (antipathy). Investigation of these discursive relationships shows that the study of visual culture should not be isolated from other forms o
f sensation and representation.

BIO: David Morgan is Professor of Religion at Duke University with an additional appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He is author of The Lure of Images (Routledge 2007), The Sacred Gaze (California 2005), Protestants and Pictures (Oxford 1999), Visual Piety (California 1998). Morgan has edited and co-edited several volumes for Routledge, including Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief (forthcoming), Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture (2008), and Re-Enchantment (2008). He is also co-founder and co-editor of Material Religion, an international journal on the material culture of religions.

Themes in American Studies Lecture Series is sponsored by:
GWU American Studies Department
amst@gwu.edu
202.994.6070
www.gwu.edu/~amst

FREE for current Fine Arts & Art History students
$25 for non-FAAH students (one way or round trip)

Leave from Gelman at 7am
Arrive in Chelsea (23rd and 10th) at 11am-12pm
Leave Chelsea at 8pm

On Saturday, Oct. 17, the Department will hold the seventh annual Graduate Student Symposium. The talks will begin at 9:30, and coffee will be available earlier, at 9:00, in the hall outside the large lecture room. The symposium has been an important event in the life of the Department, and I hope to see you all there. It is a chance to hear the research work of fellow students and those at AU in a formal setting.

Schedule:
9:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast

9:30-12:30 Welcome and Morning Session in room 114:

- Giselle Larroque Obermeier (GW), "The Multiple Portraits of Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein"
- Maria Mahon (AU), "Ben Shahn's Multifunctional Photographs: Innovative Vision and Pictorial Inspiration"
- Laurie Tylec (GW), "Man Ray: Aerographs, the Machine, and New York Dada"
- Patricia Bray (AU), "The Ephemeral Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres"

12:30-1:30 Lunch in Classroom 102

- Margaret Collerd (GW), "To Make and to Look at, Not to Eat: John Cage, Mud Pies, and How to Make Art"
- Noorah Alsabah (AU), "Quadratura and Light in Guercino's Casino dell'Aurora Frescoes"
- Jordan Isabella Amirkhani (GW), "'Relache' or Relache?: An Analysis of Francis Picabia's Instantiesme in Two Acts"
- Angel Reed (AU), "Lady Wisdom and Her Attendants: Andrea Sacchi's Barberini Fresco"

small
October 5, 2009 - October 23, 2009
Classroom 102, Smith Hall of Art

The Miniature show is an open exhibition that celebrates small works of art. Size must not exceed 100 square inches. Artworks of all mediums are accepted in this exhibition. The first week of this exhibition will feature current MFA and BA students in the George Washington University. The second two weeks of the exhibition will also include works from open call artists.

from the WPA:

Washington Project for the Arts announces the
Artists Selected for OPTIONS 2009
Mullins_Reincarnation

left to right: Jenny Mullins, American Reincarnation Machine, 2009, mixed media, 84 x 60 x 36"; Graham Coreil-Allen, New Public Sites, 2009, multimedia installation & performance, dimensions variable; Polly Townsend, Summit, 2009, oil on canvas, 47 x 52"

Washington, DC, July 14, 2009 - Washington Project for the Arts will present its thirteenth installment of the biennial exhibition, OPTIONS, from September 17 - October 31, 2009 at 1358 Florida Avenue NE, second floor. This year's exhibition, featuring works by thirteen of the region's most exciting artists will be curated by Anne Collins Goodyear, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

As a tradition, OPTIONS is a survey of the brightest and most talented emerging artists in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia regions. The WPA originally developed the biennial series in 1981 with legendary artist Gene Davis and Washington Review Managing Editor Mary Swift as curators of the first WPA OPTIONS showcase. OPTIONS exhibitions offer the opportunity for artists who do not have gallery representation at the time of their selection to increase their visibility and presents visitors with a glimpse into the breadth and diversity of contemporary art practice in the region.

After a review of over 200 mailed submissions and visits to the studios of over 250 artists throughout the region, WPA is pleased to announce our curator's selection of artists for OPTIONS 2009:

Leah Beeferman, VA; Jessica Braiterman, MD; Graham Coreil-Allen, MD; Younseal Eum, VA; Andy Holtin, DC; Sue Johnson, MD; Patrick McDonough, DC; Kim Manfredi, MD; Jenny Mullins, MD; Ding Ren, DC; Matthew Smith, DC; Polly Townsend, DC; and Matthew Wead, MD.

An opening reception is planned for Thursday, September 17, 2009 from 6-8pm. Please stay tuned to our web site (www.wpadc.org) for more information as the exhibition approaches.

Congratulations to the selected artists!

OPTIONS 2009 is funded, in part, by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Meet the Artist: Brian Jungen

from the Hirshhorn website:

Event Info

Born to a Swiss-Canadian father and a First Nations mother, Vancouver-based artist Brian Jungen explores his cultural identity, as well as the complex exchange of goods and ideas in our globalized world. The artist discusses the drawings, sculptures, and installations featured in his solo exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and highlights future projects with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, chief curator at Castello di Rivoli and the artistic director of Documenta 13. “Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort” is on view Oct. 16, 2009–Aug. 8, 2010. This program is free.

If you haven't been to the OPTIONS '09 exhibition yet, this Saturday, 10/17 is THE day to go!

Now in its thirteenth rendition, 'OPTIONS' is the WPA biennial exhibtion of the region's most promising, underexposed talent. Each 'OPTIONS' exhibition is selected by a different curator from an open call and extensive studio visits throughout DC, MD and VA.

Join us on Saturday 10/17 for a talk led by this year's 'OPTIONS' curator, Anne Collins Goodyear (Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution).

Hear about the search that led to her selection of the 13 artists in the show. This year's selected artists: Leah Beeferman (VA), Jessica Braiterman (MD), Graham Coreil-Allen (MD), Younseal Eum (VA), Andy Holtin (DC), Sue Johnson (MD), Patrick McDonough (DC), Kim Manfredi (MD), Jenny Mullins (DC), Ding Ren (DC), Matthew Smith (DC), Polly Townsend (DC), and Matthew Wead (MD)

Many of the artists will be present to add to the discussion including: Leah Beeferman, Graham Coreil-Allen, Andy Holtin, Patrick McDonough, Ding Ren and Matthew Smith.

BONUS: Arrive at the gallery at 2:00pm for a free performance in the form of a walking tour by Option's Artist, Graham Coreil-Allen. The tour is an exploration of spacial shifts in the surrounding developing area. More info here: http://www.wpadc.org/exhibitions/options_walking_tours.html

There are plenty of cool places to eat lunch in the H street area so you should make a day of it and have the FULL OPTIONS EXPERIENCE!

(full color catalogs available at the exhibition)

OPTIONS '09 is located at 1358 Florida Ave NE, 2nd Floor, above Conner Contemporary Art

for more information visit: http://www.wpadc.org/exhibitions/exhbt_current.html

The GW Classics department is offering these lectures in conjunction with the Archaeological Institute of America's Washington DC Society. Both events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
7:00 - 8:30 pm in Smith 114
Barbara Tsakirgis, Associate Professor of Classics and Art History, Vanderbilt University
"Palaces in Greek World"
This lecture will be associated with Prof. Eric Cline's course: CLAS 119, 80 Early Aegean & Greek Civ-338BC

John Gerrard is coming to campus this Friday, November 6, for critiques with our MFA students. His work will also be featured at the Hirshhorn.

Special Saturday Hours: Saturday, Oct. 31st, 11am-5pm [Artist will be present]

Minstrelsy "Uncorked": Thomas Eakins' Empathetic Realism

Richard J. Powell
Duke University

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:30 pm
East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art

Reception to follow
Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington

Visiting artist Lincoln Schatz will lecture from 2:30 - 3:30 in Smith 114. All are welcome!

When: Monday, November 16 at 4pm
Where: Classroom 102
Who: everyone!

Please come with ideas for the two open gallery slots (January 18-29 and February 15-26) and your calendars for setting up exhibition committee.

As We Live and Breathe

Exhibition: Examining "Green-ness" in the contemporary visual environment.

September 11 to November 14, 2009

During the opening week of the artist’s major midcareer survey at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare visits the Hirshhorn to discuss his work with NMAfA curator Karen Milbourne. Like the Hirshhorn’s “The Age of Enlightenment—Antoine Lavoisier” (2008) on view in “Strange Bodies” until Nov. 15, much of Shonibare’s work poses questions about politics, identity, and cultural authenticity in a postcolonial world. “Yinka Shonibare MBE” is on view at the NMAfA Nov. 10, 2009– Mar. 7, 2010. This program is free.

The George Washington University Department of Fine Arts and Art History presents:

'I don't make boy sculptures': David Smith, Frank O'Hara, and Gender Assignment

Artist Brice Marden will make a rare public appearance for the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series on Sunday, November 22, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head of the department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art. Part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series, This lecture is also held in conjunction with the exhibition, The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, which features many of Marden’s works, including Picasso's Skull, 1989-1990.

FREE for current Fine Arts & Art History students
$25 for non-FAAH students (one way or round trip)

Leave from Gelman at 8am
Arrive at the Philadelphia Museum of Art around 10:30
Leave at 8pm