Colburn Gallery Show
Posted on November 17, 2009
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Walker Blackwell and Tarrah Krajnak curated B-sides from the archives of their own “rejected” works, forgotten pictures, and private snapshots. While the process meant allowing one another embarrassing access to external hard-drives and old contact sheets, the pictures deemed un-artistic, non-conceptual, or un-worthy of the light of day are re-contextualized and given new meaning. The final show reads more like a glimpse into a photographic diary where whole pages are missing, but moments of uneasiness, the banal, and vulnerability, show ways in which contemporary photography itself is unfixed, contingent, and ultimately representative of a slippage of meaning.
PICTURING POMPEII FROM THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE VICTORIAN ERA
Posted on November 9, 2009
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Speaker: T. BARTON THURBER, Ph.D., Curator of European Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Art History Lecture
Wednesday, November 18th at 6 PM at 301 Williams Hall
Reception to follow
The systematic excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum beginning in the eighteenth century captured the imagination of scholars, visitors, and artists alike. The discovery of lavish residences and personal artifacts transformed the idea of the Roman world. Over the years, as a wealth of information was increasingly documented and published, artists recorded their firsthand impressions and created idealized reconstructions. These images illuminate the growing understanding of antiquity and reflect the perspectives of their own time.
T. BARTON THURBER, Ph.D., Curator of European Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
Bart received his doctoral degree from Harvard University in 1994. He worked for seveal years at the National Gallery of Art and later held postdoctoral appointments at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C. Bart arrived at Dartmouth College in 1998, where he has organized a variety of exhibitions ranging from Renaissance prints to Early Modern paintings. His publications include articles, reviews, and exhibition catalogues on diverse subjects, including the architecture of Andrea Palladio, French landscape painting, and mythological prints from Mantegna to Picasso.
ARTS221 Advanced Painting Colburn Exhibit
Posted on November 9, 2009
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November 10th through November 13th 2009
Huge Art – Exhibit of Advanced Painting class
Francis Colburn Gallery, Third Floor Williams
Opening Reception: November 10th at 7 PM, coffee and desserts will be served.
Studio Art Adjunct Faculty Exhibit at the Francis Colburn Gallery
Posted on October 26, 2009
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Tenth Roland Batten Lecture – SANITY SCENARIO: Emerging Design Strategies Toward a Sustainable Burlington
Posted on October 1, 2009
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William Fleissig
THE TENTH ANNUAL ROLAND BATTEN MEMORIAL LECTURE on Architecture and Design will be presented by Will Fleissig WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28th at 6:00 P.M. in 301 WILLIAMS HALL at The University of Vermont with a reception to follow.
The lecture and reception are sponsored by the Roland Batten Memorial Fund, Truex/Cullens and Partners Architects, and The University of Vermont’s Visiting Artists, Art Critics and Art Historian’s Lecture Series. The events are free and open to the public.
“SANITY SCENARIO: Emerging Design Strategies Toward a Sustainable Burlington”
Metropolitan areas throughout the US are outlining regional blueprints to achieve a more sustainable platform – including the preservation of critical habitat and watershed areas; building more compactly near transit service to reduce carbon emissions from vehicles; concentrating employment in village centers; providing affordable intergenerational housing; and reducing energy consumption through renewable sources.
University communities such as Boulder CO, Davis CA, Eugene OR and Austin TX are pushing for a new generation of sustainable buildings and applying new planning strategies for smaller towns. Can Burlington and it’s design community help to shape a more sustainable future? How? Who? This presentation will attempt to frame pragmatic design approaches and offer engaging ideas and avenues for citizens, students, architects, environmentalists, elected officials, employers and the community at large.
Will Fleissig is currently developing a new 130 acre sustainable campus called West Village at UC Davis in California. He is the former Planning Director in Boulder Colorado, and is working on new strategies for the Bay Area in CA.
Recording of the talk can be found here, and will be shown on Channel 17 November 5 at 1:00 PM.
http://www.cctv.org/node/84027
Aluan Arguelles: Life Turn on a Dime
Posted on September 30, 2009
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Here is a link to an interview by VPR with the artist:
http://www.vpr.net/flash/audio_player/audio_player.php?id=29436
ART HISTORY GRADUATE SCHOOL INFORMATION SESSION
Posted on September 17, 2009
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Wednesday, September 30th 5:30 to 6:30 in 308 Williams Hall
Thinking about graduate school in art history? Please join us on Wednesday, September
30th from 5:30 to 6:30 in 308 Williams for an information session. We will give tips on
improving your application and offer advice on how to decide where and when to apply. We
will also answer any question you might have about preparing your application, why to
apply for graduate school in art history, and what programs might be right for you.
JOE LEWIS: WELCOME TO JENA: PRINTS FROM THE FRONT
Posted on September 15, 2009
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Exhibit is on display September 22nd until October 9th
The Francis Colburn Gallery
on the third floor of Williams Hall.
The Gallery is open Monday through Friday 9 AM to 4:30 PM.
VISITING ARTIST TALK:
WEDNESDAY SEPT 30, 6:00PM
301 Williams Hall, RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
“The theory of practitioner as change agent – establishing voice and place for diversity – is the cornerstone for my decision making process. Significantly, my images are almost inconsequential because they are not resting places but pathways to sites for internal and personal meditations.
Everything we do leaves some sort of residue. Sometimes it is merely a set of vibrations that rattle around in ever expanding waves out into the universe. At other times it what I call “the one step for man” syndrome, an indelible mark that systematically changes a people, place or thing.
“Welcome to Jena: Prints from the Front” is a collection of markings that reconstruct narratives about how we build relationships between ourselves, regardless of their implications. In this case, the main antagonists are: choice, race, and representation, or other social-phobia or remembrances that haunt our daily lives.”– Joe Lewis
VISITING ARTIST TALK: CORIN HEWITT
Posted on September 15, 2009
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Corin Hewitt at work in his cramped kitchen at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Visiting Artist Talk: Corin Hewitt
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM
301 Williams Hall
For more information on the artist, please read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/arts/design/03chan.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
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ARTISTS’ BOOKS: A DISCUSSION with MILDRED BELTRÉ AND JANE KENT
Posted on September 14, 2009
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ARTISTS’ BOOKS: A DISCUSSION with MILDRED BELTRÉ AND JANE KENT
September 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Special Collections Reading Room
Bailey/Howe Library
University of Vermont
Printmakers, book artists, and University of Vermont professors Mildred Beltré and Jane Kent will talk about their work and share their perspectives on creating artists’ books.
Mildred Beltré was born and raised in New York City. As a child she spent a significant amount of time in the Dominican Republic. She received her BA in Studio Art and Anthropology/Sociology from Carleton College and her MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. She is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant as well as a Residency Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop. Her work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Walker Art Center, and the Jersey City Museum, among others.
Jane Kent teaches drawing, silkscreen and etching at UVM. She received her B.F.A. from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She has taught at Princeton, Brown, Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Bennington College, Rhode Island School of Design, Cooper Union School of Art, and Hunter College, CUNY. Her work has been shown widely and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the NationaGallery, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, and the New York Public Library. Special Collections holds her books Privacy (1999) and The Orchid Thief Reimagined (2003). Kent received a Faculty Research Support Award for her current project, Skating, with text by Richard Ford and etchings by Kent, to be published in 2010 by Grenfell Press.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, call 656-2138 or e-mail uvmsc@uvm.edu.
Parking is available at the visitor parking lot on College St.
FRIENDS OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LECTURE SERIES 2009-2010