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Spring semester
is about to begin at the university, and the Georgia Museum of Art has a full
schedule of lectures and artist talks over the course of the next few months. These
events are all open to the public, and are free to attend. Some of the lecture
events this semester include:
Artist Talk: Ted Kincaid
January
11, 2 p.m.
Texas-based
artist Ted Kincaid will discuss his work in a talk entitled “Stranger than
Non-Fiction.” Kincaid’s work is on view November 17, 2018 – January 13, 2019 in
the exhibition "Ted Kincaid: If I Lose Everything."
Aralee Strange Lecture: Maisha Winn
February
28, 5:30 p.m.
Dr.
Maisha Winn is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education
at the University of California, Davis, and the Cofounder and Co-Director of
the Transformative Justice in Education Center. In her talk, “‘I don't want us
to forget the fire’: Literacy, Activism and Black Literate Lives Overview,”
Winn examines the role of the Black Arts Movement in building a literacy
continuum for readers, writers, speakers and activists. This program is made
possible by the Aralee Strange Fund for Art and Poetry.
Emerging Scholars Symposium Keynote
Lecture: Paul Barolsky
March
22, 4:30 p.m.
Paul
Barolsky will deliver the keynote lecture entitled “Art, Love and Marriage in
the Italian Renaissance” for the 2019 Emerging Scholars Symposium. Barolsky’s
talk will deal with art historical description, interpretation, rhetoric,
aesthetics, beauty, subjectivity, form, playfulness, pleasure and fun. Barolsky
is Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of
Virginia, where he taught the history of Renaissance art and literature for 47
years. He is the author of numerous books, most recently “A Brief History of
the Artist from God to Picasso” (2010) and "Ovid and the Metamorphoses of
Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso” (2014). Presented in collaboration with
the Association of Graduate Art Students and sponsored by the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation.
In Conversation: Rebecca Rutstein and Samantha
Joye
March
28, 6 p.m.
Rebecca
Rutstein, artist and Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding at the
Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and Dr. Samantha Joye, professor of
marine sciences at UGA, will speak about their deep-sea expedition to Mexico’s
Guaymas Basin in the Sea of Cortez. As part of the expedition and artist
residency, Rutstein set up her studio on the ship and created new works
inspired by the data collected in real time. Two of Rutstein’s works, works
"Out of the Darkness: Light in the Depths of the Sea of Cortez" and
"Progenitor Series," are on view at the Georgia Museum of Art.
Presented in collaboration with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Andrea Carson-Coley Lecture: Genny Beemyn
April 12, 12:30 p.m.
This year's Andrea Carson-Coley lecture will be delivered by Dr. Genny Beemyn, director of the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Trans Policy Clearinghouse coordinator for Campus Pride. Until the last decade, what little was known about the experiences of trans college students was largely anecdotal. This talk will examine where we are today with research on trans students (including a discussion of the presenter’s own work) and where we must boldly go.
Andrea Carson-Coley Lecture: Genny Beemyn
April 12, 12:30 p.m.
This year's Andrea Carson-Coley lecture will be delivered by Dr. Genny Beemyn, director of the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Trans Policy Clearinghouse coordinator for Campus Pride. Until the last decade, what little was known about the experiences of trans college students was largely anecdotal. This talk will examine where we are today with research on trans students (including a discussion of the presenter’s own work) and where we must boldly go.
For a full list
of programming at the Georgia Museum of Art, please visit our website.
