Fall 2010 Speakers Series
MFA Candidate Thesis Lecture Schedule
Presented in Art B-01 at 7:00 PM unless otherwise noted
Wednesday, November 3rd
Grant Billingsley (Painting)
Monday, November 8th
John-Thomas Richard (Ceramics)
Thursday, November 11th
Zach Nader (Photography)
Wednesday, November 17th
David Collins (Painting)
Monday, November 22nd
Mark Watjen (Ceramics)
Wednesday, December 1st
Jared Applegate (Painting)
2010 Texas Sculpture Symposium
(November 12-14; TTU Lubbock)
Every other year since 2004 the School of Art hosts this Texas-wide sculpture symposium. In celebration of the near-completion of the sculpture area in the 3D Art Annex, this will be the first time the symposium is held in Lubbock. Artists from around the nation will be brought in to give talks and demonstrations. A retrospective of work by School of Art alumnus, Danville Chadbourne, will be featured at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts.
Earlier This Semester
Dr. Brian Steele, Associate Professor in Art History
September 8 at 5:15 PM in English/Phil 106
“Titian, Clarice Strozzi, and Pictorial Intelligence c. 1540”
Titian presents an infant girl in state without sacrificing childlike demeanor by dispersing iconographic elements that evoke aspects of her anticipated role as wife away from the figure. The image exemplifies Titian’s pictorial approaches to imply significance and to harmonize surface with illusory space in a manner characteristic of Venetian Renaissance painting.
Dr. Janis Elliott, Assistant Professor Art History
September 15 at 5:15 PM in Eng/Phil 106
“Titular Saints, Art, Liturgy and Space: Visual Modes of Communication in 14th-century Choir of the Eremitani in Padua”
The fresco decoration of the choir of the Augustinian church in Padua was painted by Guariento d’Arpo, c. 1340-1360. The Eremitani, as the church is commonly called, was built in the thirteenth century and was dedicated to Saints James and Philip. Scenes from their lives appear on the walls of the choir and their images also appear on the terminals of a large painted crucifix which hung over the altar in the choir. This paper will consider the significance of the dedication of the church to Saints James and Philip and will explore the placement of the hagiographic imagery in connection with the high altar and the liturgy performed there.
Dr. Jorgelina Orfila, Assistant Professor Art History
September 22 at 5:15 PM in Eng/Phil 106
“Art Display as Propaganda Tool Against Fascism: The Paris 1937 Van Gogh Exhibition”
The Van Gogh exhibit presented on occasion of the Paris 1937 International Exposition reflected the cultural policies and social ideology of the Popular Front, an alliance of radical and leftist parties formed to oppose the advance of Fascism. This paper will argue that the display of the Van Gogh show aimed at making the artist’s paintings accessible to the masses, while defending modern art from the indictment of degeneracy inflicted upon it by the German National Socialist party.
Dr. Kevin Chua, Assistant Professor Art History
September 29 at 6:00 PM in Eng/Phil 106
“Donna Ong’s Coral Realism”
Donna Ong's installations conjure up invented worlds that occupy an uneasy realm between the strange and the familiar - a space we have come to call the "uncanny." This talk will delve into this Singaporean artist's installation practice, and try to find grounds to talk about her practice of installation. What does it mean to match, fit, sew, tie, conjoin, and thread objects into what we might call her "assemblies of mind"? Against a familiar trope in discussions of her art, that her work is "drawn from the imagination," I will instead argue that her work brings us back to a grounded reality – the worldliness of the world.
Fall Speakers Series
Karen Kiefer-Boyd, Ph.D., Professor of Art Education and Affiliate Professor, Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State University
September 23 at 6:00 PM in Education Building 001 (basement)
"Emergent Practices in Qualitative Research"
Co-sponsored with the College of Education Helen DeVitt Jones Lecture & Seminar Series.
Penelope Umbrico, photographic artist, Brooklyn, New York.
October 21 at 7:00 PM in Art B-01
Landscape as Knowledge
(The Ryla T. & John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts Program for Fall 2010)
Organized by the faculty of the School of Art in collaboration with faculty from the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University, and receiving major support from the Ryla T. and John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts and the College of Architecture, Landscape as Knowledge will present a year-long series of public lectures, conversations and events to examine embodied intelligence within the augmented environment.
Join our dialog in 2010-2011 with:
September 16 at 5:00 PM in Art B-01
Heidi Hove, conceptual artist, Denmark and artist-in-residence, EarthBound Moon, Bledsoe, TX
September 28 at 7:00PM in English LH001
David Stephenson, Associate Professor, Head of Photography, School of Art, University of Tasmania, Australia
November 9 at 6:30 PM in English LH001
Ann Reynolds, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Eve Andree Laramee, multi-media artist, Brooklyn, New York, Professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art
Coming in Spring 2011
Liz Wells, Curator and Director of the Research Center for Land/Water at the University of Plymouth, UK.
William L. Fox, writer, Director, Center for Art & Environment, Nevada Museum of Art
Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City, California
This series is presented with support from the Ryla T. and John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts, and with additional support from Land Arts of the American West, the College of Architecture and Landmark Arts in the School of Art.
Exhibitions and visiting speakers programs at the School of Art are supported by generous grants from the Helen Jones Foundation and The CH Foundation, both of Lubbock. Additional support comes from Cultural Activities Fees administered through the College of Visual & Performing Arts.