Spring 2010 Speakers Series
The Ryla T. & John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts Spring 2010 Presentation
Jonatán Luna of the Beehive Collective (March 31, 2010 at 7:00 PM in English 106)
Jonatán Luna is an activist with the Beehive Collective who has used art and anti-copyright graphics as educational tools to affect change in the poor Andean region of Colombia as well as to demystify U.S. foreign policy in relation to the war on drugs. Visit www.beehivecollective.org for more information
Spring Speakers Series
Ato Delaquis (Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 7:00 PM in Art B-01)
Ato Delaquis is an internationally recognized artist from Ghana whose paintings have been exhibited worldwide since the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the leading figures of the Ghanaian renaissance after Ghanaian independence. In the seventies he started portraying urban marketplaces, colorful buses and bars filled with dancing and beer drinking Ghanaians. The representation of urban life became a trend among Ghanaian artists. He received his MFA from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA in the 1970s. He currently teaches at the College of Art, Department of Painting & Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.
Ed Bernstein (Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 7:00 PM in Art B-01)
Edward Bernstein is Professor of Art and Co-Head of Printmaking at Indiana University, Bloomington and Director of the Indiana Summer Program in Printmaking and Artists Books at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica , Venice 2000-2009. He received his MFA in printmaking from Indiana in 1973. He studied with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris, holds a B.F.A, painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a B. A. Honors political science from Miami University, Ohio. Bernstein has two regional NEA’s and the Society of American Graphic Arts Award for Excellence.
Spring Art History Lectures
Lori B. Diel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Art History, Texas Christian University
(March 2 at 5:30 PM in Art B-01)
The Politics of Marriage in Aztec Histories
Through the lenses of indigenous painted histories, Dr. Lori Diel looks at the encounter from an Amerindian perspective, investigating the Aztec representation of Spaniards. Lori Boornazian Diel earned her Ph.D. from Tulane University and a B.A. in Art History and Anthropology from Emory University. A specialist in the pre- and post-conquest art of the Aztecs, Dr. Diel’s book, The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2008. She also studies representations of women in Aztec art and material culture. Her recent work on the Manuscrito del Aperreamiento (Manuscript of a Dogging) has been supported through grants provided by the Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University.
Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Early Modern Ibero-American Colonial Art and Architecture Department of Art and Art History
(March 30, 2010 at 5:30 PM in Art B-01)
The Language of Line in Late Colonial Visual Culture: Nostalgia, Politics, and the Calligraphic Portrait of don Bernardo de Galves (1796).
Dr. Ray Hernández-Durán joined the University of New Mexico Art and Art History faculty in Fall 2003. He is affiliated with Latin American Studies and the Colonial Studies Working Group, sponsored by the Latin American and Iberian Institute. His museum experience includes an internship in the Prints and Drawings department of the Huntington Gallery at the University of Texas at Austin, service on the exhibitions committee of the Union galleries at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and most significantly, three years as MacArthur Intern and then MacArthur Fellow in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago. He is in the process of reworking his dissertation, “Reframing Viceregal Painting in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Politics, the Academy of San Carlos, and Colonial Art History,” into a book, tentatively titled, “El origen del arte entre nosotros: A Historiography of Colonial Art History in Mexico and the United States, 1855–1959.”
Earlier This Semester
Drive By Press (Joseph Velasquez & Greg Nancy)
January 27-28, 2010
Drive by Press (DBP) a mobile printing team will be making their second and final visit to Texas Tech on January 27th and 28th. DBP travel the United States(logging over 100,000 miles) encouraging the democratization of art through their exciting public printing demonstrations and lectures.
They will be in the School of Art parking lot (18th at Flint Ave.) demonstrating printmaking and making prints with all those who show up on Wednesday, January 27th from 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM. On Thursday, January 28th they will be at the Student Union Building from 10:00 AM -3:00 PM.
They will give a public talk at School of Art room B-01 on January 27th at 7:00 PM.
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.