Artifacts of the Future: Artists’ Interventions in the Environment October 12-13, 2017 (Professors Pamela Karimi & Rebecca Uchill)

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artifacts-of-the-future-artists-interventions-in-the-environment-tickets-37094881790

Native New Bedford artist, Mark Dion artworks are being exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.  The exhibition is entitled Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist  and will open Oct. 4, 2017 and continue through Jan. 1, 2018.

In conjunction with Mark Dion’s survey exhibition will be an symposium entitled, Artifacts of the Future, and will be begin at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Thursday, Oct 12, 2017 | 6–8 PM and continue at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Friday, Oct/ 13, 2017.

Artifacts of the Future (NBWM)
Thursday, Oct 12, 2017 | 6–8 PM

Keynote Session: Inspired by the City that Lit the World: Mark Dion Reflects on His Creative Process

  • 6:00–6:30 PM: Pamela Karimi (Moderator & Lecturer) | The Artist and the American Post-Industrial Landscape
  • 6:30–7:30 PM: Mark Dion |  Space, Nature, and Materiality in New Bedford and Beyond
  • 7:30–8 PM: Caroline A. Jones | Commentary and Q&A

LOCATION: New Bedford Whaling Museum, Cook Memorial Theater
18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740. Registration required. Registrants please arrive 15 minutes early to guarantee your seat. This event is presented by UMass Dartmouth.

Friday, October 13, 2017 | 9 AM–3 PM (ICA)

  • 9:00–9:30 AM: Coffee Reception
  • 9:30–9:45 AM: Welcoming Remarks
  • 9:45–10:15 AM: Mark Dion and Ruth Erickson in Conversation
  • 10:15–11:45 AM: Morning Session
    A. Laurie Palmer | In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction
    Cecilia Vicuña | Quipu Mapocho/Quipu Womb: Two Works in the Land and in the Museum, Addressing the Ancient Stories of Water and
    Survival in Chile and the Mediterranean
    Lize Mogel | Walking the Watershed
    Moderator: Sarah Kanouse
  • 12:00–1:30 PM: Lunch Break
  • 1:30–2:30 PM: Afternoon Session
    Juan William Chávez | Working as a Hive in the Urban Ecosystem
    Lenka Clayton | …circle through New York
    Moderator: Kirsten Swenson
  • 2:30–3:00 PM: Rebecca Uchill | Concluding Reflections

 LOCATION: Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater. 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA

The symposium is co-organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Northeastern University; University of Massachusetts Boston; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; and University of Massachusetts Lowell. It begins at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, in Mark Dion’s hometown, and continues the next day at the ICA/Boston.

Rebecca Uchill, Art History Lecture is the new web editor for CAA Art Journal Open

“CAA’s president, Suzanne Preston Blier, has appointed Rebecca Uchill as the new web editor for Art Journal Open, endorsing the recommendation of the editorial board of Art Journal. Uchill, who currently is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Art, Science, and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joins the College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth in September as a full-time lecturer. Uchill’s three-year term for Art Journal Open commences on July 1, 2017; she succeeds inaugural web editor Gloria Sutton, assistant professor of contemporary art history and new media at Northeastern University. During her term, Uchill will be responsible for commissioning and vetting content for the website, including artist projects and essays. She will serve on the Art Journal editorial board.

Uchill is the coeditor (with Caroline A. Jones and David Mather) of Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense (MIT Press, 2016), as well as curator of the artist entries for the volume. She organizes interdisciplinary events and programs, including the recent “Being Material” symposium at MIT and a series of curatorial experiments with the collaborative Experience Economies. Uchill has published in journals such as Future Anterior, Museum and Curatorial Studies Review, Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, and Journal of Curatorial Studies. She has curated exhibitions at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Mass MoCA. Uchill earned her PhD in history, theory, and criticism of art at MIT in 2015.”

“Rebecca Uchill is the New Web Editor for Art Journal Open”. CAA News Today. June 1, 2017. http://www.collegeart.org/news/2017/06/01/rebecca-uchill-is-the-new-web-editor-for-art-journal-open/.

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Making Her Mark – Art History Capstone Exhibition

Making Her Mark is an exhibition highlighting late nineteenth-century paintings, illustrations, books, and sculptures by Rhode Island women artists and their contributions to the modernity narrative. The exhibition focuses on a group of women artists who were instrumental in the establishment of one of the first American art clubs, The Providence Art Club, that accepted women as equal members, as active board members and as artistic colleagues.  Over the course of the later half of nineteenth century women artists, such as Rosa Peckham, Emily McGary Selinger, Helen Watson Phelps, Emma Swan, Charlotte Gilman, Mary C. Wheeler, and Sophia Pitman, along with other female artists, worked, traveled, and exhibited alongside their male contemporaries.  Many of these women pursued opportunities to show their artworks in salons and galleries in the United States and abroad, including Paris and London. These remarkable women, artists, suffragettes, art instructors, authors, and community leaders help form and contribute to the regional and national artistic and cultural conversation. The exhibition celebrates these women artists and recognizes their struggles as well as their accomplishments to the American history.

The exhibition is part of the capstone experience where students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience. This is the 6th year that Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin, art history professors, have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum quality exhibition and publication. This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities in Providence.  This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Providence Art Club.

The exhibition runs from April 12 thru April 29, 2017 at the Main Campus Art Gallery located in the College of Visual & Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Address is 285 Old Westport Road, adjacent to parking lot 7, Dartmouth, Massachusetts. We invite the public to attend the opening reception and gallery talk on Wednesday, April 12 from 4pm -6pm. The public exhibition hours are Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. -4 p.m. For more information, please contact, Dr. Anna Dempsey, adempsey@umassd.edu and Allison J. Cywin, acywin@umassd.edu. You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550.

Public Art and Activism – UMass Dartmouth – Art History Undergraduate Symposium

Art History Undergraduate Symposium
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Public Art and Activism
April 18, 2017

Public art is used to raise awareness, to shift ways of thinking, and to protest. In the past, this work bypassed galleries, museums, and formal art institutions and instead found its home on streets and public squares. Today, public art is increasingly showcased on social media. Transcending geographical borders, in the past two decades art of various mediums has been generated and displayed on social media networks in the hopes of creating a better world.

The current political climate in the United States, combined with human rights issues in various parts of the world have created an influx of activist art with strong public presence. Additionally, as our culture becomes more and more visual, activists increasingly turn to art to draw more attention to their political agendas. The Sixth Art History Undergraduate Symposium at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth aims to examine the intersections of public art and activism.

Keynote

2017 Playful Perspectives by Lucas Cowan, Curator of the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA. Before his tenor at the Greenway, Mr. Cowan worked for the Maryland State Arts Council as the director of public art programs, and senior curator of exhibits for Chicago’s highly regarded Millennium Park in Chicago.

Student Panels

Panel One: Contexts for Change

Chloe Bartlett, Blaine Little, Luisa Perez and Mariah Tarentino

Panel Two: Locations and Spaces·

Corey Arena and Kathryn Cua

Panel Three: Artists at Work

Lingjun Jiang. Melody Miller. and Devika Sen

Symposium: Making Her Mark: Women Artists (1880-1900)

What: “Making Her Mark: The Women Artists of the Providence Art Club, 1880”

When: noon to 4 p.m. weekdays and 2 to 4 p.m. weekends through March 30

Where: Providence Art Club, 11 Thomas St., Providence

Information: (401) 331-1114, providenceartclub.org

What: Emergence of women as artists and art educators

When: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday

Where: First Baptist Church in America, 75 North Main St., Providence

Admission: Free, but space is limited. Contact Providence Art Club to reserve a spot.

 

http://www.providencejournal.com/entertainmentlife/20170322/providence-art-club-honors-its-female-founders-in-making-her-mark-exhibit

Women, Art and Fibers: Contemporary Responses to Abolition and the Journey North Exhibition

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Women, Art and Fibers: Contemporary Responses to Abolition and the Journey North
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA, 02747
Exhibition dates: March 8, 2017 – April 4, 2017
Opening Reception: March 8, 4-6 pm, Comments by the Artists: 5 pm
Guest-Curated by Laurie Carlson Steger and Dr. Memory Holloway
Exhibiting Artists: Cathryn Amidei, Suzi Ballenger, Laurie Carlson Steger, Sonja Dahl, Barbara Eychaner, Brooks Harris Stevens, Karen Hampton, Margaret Leininger, Faith Ringgold, Linda Rhynard, Marcia Weiss, plus members of the Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth Quilt group, Naomi Henry, Lesyslie Rackard, Christie Rawlins-Jackson, Kimberly Radcliffe, and Susi Ryan

Women, Art and Fibers: Contemporary Responses to Abolition and The Journey North, focuses on the influences of the slave trade, the whaling industry and the textile industry which linked New Bedford MA and Savannah, GA.
The exhibition, guest-curated by Laurie Carlson Steger and Dr. Memory Holloway, with work by fifteen fiber artists from across the nation, includes historic garments from the Rotch-Jones Duff House and Garden Museum as well as a story quilt from the New Bedford Historical Society. The opening reception with the comments by the artists is held on Wednesday, March 8, from 4 to 6 pm. Visitors are advised to use Parking Lot 7. An exhibition catalog written by Dr. Memory Holloway, will be available.

The selected works respond to local Quaker and abolitionist histories and stories of the enslaved who escaped via the Underground Railroad, often passing through New Bedford. Traditional and contemporary textile techniques and materials create artworks of compelling solidarity and stature that unite a diverse community.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with International Women’s Month, and New Bedford’s Fiber Art Month.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Dartmouth Cultural Council, which is a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Additionally, we would like to thank the following for their generous assistance in making this exhibition possible: ACA Galleries in New York City, LCH Designs, New Bedford Historical Society, Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden, Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth with special thanks to Anderson Airmotive Products Company Inc., Fall River, MA.

Public Art and Activism – Undergraduate Student Symposium

Public Art & Activism

Public Art & Activism

KEYNOTE:   Lucas Cowen, Curator of Public Art, Curating for the Public: The Rose Kennedy Greenway  Conservancy

Subject Fields:
Cultural Studies,Urban Studies, Heritage and Museum studies Art History, Media & Visual Culture Studies, Women & Gender Studies, and Studio Art with focus on art as activism

Public art has been used to raise awareness, to shift ways of thinking, and to protest. In the past, this work bypassed galleries, museums, and formal art institutions and instead found its home on streets and public squares. Today, public art is increasingly showcased on social media. Transcending geographical borders, in the past two decades art of various mediums has been generated and displayed on social media networks in the hopes of creating a better world.

The current political climate in the United States, combined with human rights issues in various parts of the world have created an influx of activist art with strong public presence. Additionally, as our culture becomes more and more visual, activists increasingly turn to art to draw more attention to their political agendas. The 6th Art History Undergraduate Symposium at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth aims to examine the intersections of public art and activism. We invite students of various disciplines to share their thoughts on the topic of public art as activism. Papers may focus on specific historical or contemporary examples, but may also address broader thematic questions such as: • How has activist art evolved since the invention of social media?
• Is creating art activism enough? Does it truly affect broader socio-political issues?
• How is activist art similar and different across varying geographies?
• Is there a line between activist art and propaganda?

Please send a 200-word abstract (along with essay title and a short resume) to the president, Mariah Tarentino (mtarentino@umassd.edu) by March 13th, 2017. Those whose proposals are accepted will be notified shortly thereafter and requested to submit full papers and PowerPoint presentations no later than April 5th, 2017.

The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS

Art History Faculty News: The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative is proud to publish a new dossier of original essays, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS, co-edited by CVPA Art History Professor Pamela Karimi.

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Published on the occasion of the recapture of ISIS-controlled areas in Northern Iraq, these essays by prominent scholars of Middle Eastern art and architectural history document, quantify and theorize the demolition of cultural heritage in the Middle East, taking a long historical view that encompasses instances of destruction of the cultural heritage in the Middle East from the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the demolition spree of ISIS today. Exploring the agency of ancient monuments in today’s cultures, the ways in which this agentival capacity has been enacted or rejected through acts of violence, care, mediatization, or indifference, the authors of the essays in this collection describe the impact of obliterating architecture on our psyches, cultures, philosophies, and historiographies.

http://we-aggregate.org/project/the-destruction-of-cultural-heritage-from-napoleon-to-isis

To spur further research and reflection, a compilation of essential sources and news reports of instances of cultural demolition accompanies the essays.

http://we-aggregate.org/piece/appendix-a-selection-of-news-articles-on-the-destruction-of-cultural-heritage-in-the-middle-east

Stateless Exhibition Opens

Exhibition “Stateless” opens and runs through January 29, 2017. The exhibition brings together the work of four artists who reflect on the recent refugee crisis and issues of human displacement and migration. Artists Respond to the Refugee Crisis: Gohar Dashti, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Pantea Karimi and Jodi Stevens. Curator by Pamela Karimi.
stateless Photograph by Gohar Dashti, from the stateless series (2014-15). Courtesy of Robert Klein Gallery.

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