AUC Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective FALL 2019 HIGHLIGHTS + UPDATES
Highlights + Updates Students + Enrollment Faculty + Staff Partnerships Marketing Microsite Press Events Looking Ahead, Spring 2020
Student Enrollment
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Growing Interest In September 2019, the AUC Art History +
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Curatorial Studies Collective reported 12 Art History Majors & Curatorial Studies
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Minors. Student interest has been consistent throughout the semester.
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Declared majors and minors are expected to grow by 6 additional students (from 15 in December 2019) once Spring 2020 registration is complete.
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Congratulations, Neil Grasty! Early College Program in Art History & Curatorial Studies, Summer 2019 Accepted to Morehouse College to begin in Fall 2020!
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FALL 2019 ART HISTORY SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS Destinee Filmore | Tempe Stewart | Ming Washington
FALL 2019 FACULTY UPDATES
Cheryl Finley, Ph.D.
Keynote Address, 10/16/2019, Morven Museum and Gardens, Princeton, NJ, in coordination with the 1619 Project Programming Keynote Address, 11/13/2019, "Not Everybody's Ancestors Came Over on the Mayflower," Oberlin College Department of Art History and Allen Memorial Art Gallery Keynote Address, 12/5/2019, "From Slave Ships to Black Lives Matter," Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, Brown
Bernida WebbBinder, Ph.D.
Yasmine Espert, Ph.D.
Katherine Calvin Completed a very strong first semester! Please see the
Selected to take part in a series of three workshops
Completed PhD in Art History at Columbia University
following slides with highlights of student
focused on teaching the history of American art through
Speaker, ”Black Like Who? : Performing Black Power
achievements in class.
direct engagement with primary resources. This new
in British Film & TV,” Department of Art History.
initiative is hosted by the Smithsonian's Archives of
Fordham University, 11/ 2019
American Art, the Lunder Institute for American Art at
Scholar-Artist in the Archive: Connecting
University, conference, 12/5-12/6/2019
Colby College, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The first
Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association, William
workshop took place at the Archives of American Art in
Sanders Scarborough Prize, 12/4/2019, for Committed to
Washington, DC, 9/26-28, 2019
Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton UP, 2018)
Speaker, "The Song of Black Pearl: Intersections of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize for Committed to
Blackness in Oceania and the United States" at Black
Imaginations in Cinema and Beyond . School of
Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton UP, 2018)
Portraiture[s] V: Memory and the Archive Past. Present.
Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California,
Future.
10/ 2019 (accepted for publication in 2020)
Revolutions in Haiti and Guadeloupe "Past and Present,” conference presentation for Constellations: Connections, Disruptions, and
Katherine Calvin's Fall 2019 Course Highlights! SAVC 110 Understanding the Visual Arts Students curated a mini-exhibition of five works, conceptualizing the entire exhibition, from the works included and the curatorial statement, to the museum location(s) and accompanying program ideas. Impressive creative effort was put into their poster designs and programming [see pictured examples]
SAVC 312 Africa, Antiquity & Contemporary Expression Students visited Reynolds Cottage to analyze works by several artists discussed in class, such as Wangechi Mutu and Julie Mehretu. President Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D. stopped by during the group's discussion of Willie Cole's Stowage Study!
SAVC 141 Ways of Seeing I: Pyramids to Cathedrals Students developed short research papers on a topic of their choosing and presented their findings and methods. Students examined a wide variety of works, from the rock-cut churches of Ethiopia and early Mayan figural sculpture to Egyptian works from the Amarna period and monumental Roman architecture.
FACULTY RESEARCH WORKSHOP The Faculty Research Workshop is an informal gathering of Art History and Curatorial Studies teaching faculty begun in September 2019 to provide a supportive, interactive forum for sharing ideas, papers in progress, future presentations and research skills. Meeting once a month during the academic year, it is designed to foster research innovation and encourage collaboration.
On Leave AY 2019-2020
ABAYOMI OLA, PH.D. AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES | Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars 2019
Lines of Dissent in Anglophone West Africa, 1950-1970 examines how the graphic medium of newspaper illustrations and cartoons functioned as tools of resistance against colonialism in Anglophone West Africa. RESIDENCY: Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park
October Staff New Hire! Lauren Jackson-Harris PROGRAM COORDINATOR As an arts management professional, curator and program development manager, she brings her innovative and progressive approach from previous experience in some of the nation’s largest art scenes.
Partnership: The High Museum of Art
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PRESS HIGHLIGHTS ESSENCE MAGAZINE Featured in the December 2019 issue, "Black Masterpiece , The Art Issue: Muses, Power Players and Creatives." The publication has a monthly circulation of 1,050,000 and a readership of 8.5 million. ESSENCE is the premiere lifestyle, fashion and beauty magazine for African-American women.
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Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis (Spring 2020 Guest
GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING "Atlanta HBCUs Train Next Generation Of African American Art Curators" interview with Cheryl Finley by Rickey Bevington & Sophia Saliby. Georgia Public Broadcasting's nine public television stations deliver quality PBS and locally produced programming to every county in Georgia, and to significant portions of surrounding states.
Lecturer) are named "Deciders" - a significant list of art industry leaders in the Winter 2019 issue. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely circulated art
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magazine in the world. Its readership of 180,000 in
“The Atlanta University Center Collective for The Study
124 countries includes collectors, dealers, historians,
of Art History and Curatorial Studies offers new major
artists, museum directors, curators, connoisseurs, and
in Art History" article. The Spelman Messenger
enthusiasts. Published in print four times a year, it
serves as the alumnae magazine and is the official
reports on the art, people, issues, trends, and events
magazine of Spelman College.
shaping the international art world.
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
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EVENTS
September 2019
Sept 9- Thinking Outside of the “White Cube” | Innovating Art Exhibition & Display, Spelman Innovation Lab
Sept 15- Opening Receptions | Crafting for Life, The Sense of Something Universal, Guy Gabon: Soleil de la Conscience/ Sun of Consciousness, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Sept 11- Opening Program | Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 –2003, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Sept 13- Opening Reception | INTERVAL with Myra Greene, Spelman College, MOCA GA
Sept 19- “Pop-up” Conservation Lab Tour & Conversation, The Carlos Museum
Sept 24- Exhibition Tour | Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta with Cosmo Whyte, Morehouse College, High Museum of Art
September 2019 Event Descriptions Sept 9- Thinking Outside of the “White Cube” | Innovating Art Exhibition & Display, Spelman Innovation Lab
The “white cube” format – a minimalist, white-walled setting – has become the standard way that works of art are displayed in museums and galleries. Curators, art historians and those working with art objects often must consider how location and space help to tell the story of the displayed artworks and the artists who create them. During this Spelman Innovation Lab workshop, participants are asked to shift their thinking about where and how art is exhibited and how works of art might be experienced rather than simply viewed. Join the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies as we “idea smash” and consider new frontiers of exhibition and display.
Sept 11- Opening Program | Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 –2003, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Come along with the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies faculty and staff to celebrate the Fall 2019 exhibition, Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 –2003 at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
Sept 13- Visualizing American Slavery | Archival Resources of the 1619 Project , Lecture by Dr. Cheryl Finley, Spelman College
“The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are” (Nikole Hannah-Jones/The New York Times). Join Dr. Cheryl Finley, Director, AUC Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies and author of the award-winning book, Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton UP, 2018), as she illustrates the visual resources that art historians, curators and artists have used to illustrate the tragedy and legacy of American slavery.
Sept 13- Opening Reception | INTERVAL with Myra Greene, Spelman College, MOCA GA
Join us for the opening reception of Professor Greene’s new show INTERVAL at MOCA GA. In INTERVAL, Myra Greene utilizes fabric, dye, silk screening, and sewing to further explore representations of race and the body. At the center of Greene’s practice is a consideration of how our understanding of color is completely dependent on context—materially, culturally, and historically. Myra Greene is a 2018/2019 Working Artist Project fellow. The MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) is an awards program to support established visual artists of merit who reside in the metropolitan Atlanta area. This initiative provides an unparalleled level of support for individual artists, expands the Museum’s mission, and promotes Atlanta as a city where artists can live, work, and thrive. The 2018/2019 Working Artist Project was curated by Allison Glenn, the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Sept 15- Opening Receptions | Crafting for Life, The Sense of Something Universal, Guy Gabon: Soleil de la Conscience/ Sun of Consciousness, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum Come along with the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies faculty and staff to celebrate the Fall 2019 exhibitions, Soleil de la Conscience (Sun of Consciousness) with Guy Gabon, 2019 Clark Atlanta University Art Museum’s Black Optics Artist-in-Residence, Crafting for Life - A Permanent Collection Exhibition & The Sense of Something Universal.
September 2019 Event Descriptions Sept 16- Art History Research Resources @ the AUC | Spelman College Archives & Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
The Atlanta University Center (AUC) houses some of the nation’s most significant works by artists of the African Diaspora. Historically, the AUC provided resources to African American artists as they were being excluded from national visual art communities. Today, our institutions continue to support black artists through exhibitions and acquisitions. Using their archives and permanent collection, the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum and the Robert W. Woodruff Library offer students the unique opportunity to study and integrate these works and archival materials into coursework and research. Join Dr. Cheryl Finley as she introduces students how to use the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and the Spelman College Archives in art historical research.
Sept 18- Artist Guides Tour | Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 –2003, with artist and scholar Tina Dunkley, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Come along with the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies faculty and staff to dive deeper into the Fall 2019 exhibition, Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 –2003 at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
Sept 19- “Pop-up” Conservation Lab Tour & Conversation, The Carlos Museum
Join a panel of conservators for a discussion about the examination and treatment of a 19th-century Indian painting depicting the Jain cosmos in human form. In preparation for its display, the team has been treating this painting on view in the John Howett Works on Paper Gallery since mid-August. They will share information from the technical investigation of the painting undertaken by Emory students in conservator Renée Stein's “Technical Art History” class and share updates on the ongoing work in the "pop-up" lab. Participants will enjoy a special tour of the lab before the panel conversation.
Sept 24- Exhibition Tour | Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta with Cosmo Whyte, Morehouse College, High Museum of Art
Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta is the third in a series of exhibitions at the High Museum focused on work by Atlanta-based artists. The exhibition features six artists who address issues related to place,
belonging, and heritage in their work: Jessica Caldas, Yehimi Cambrón, Xie Caomin, Wihro Kim, Dianna Settles and Cosmo Whyte. Compelled by the national debate and dialogue around immigration reform, this iteration of the High’s Atlanta drawings project features artists whose distinct voices, diverse perspectives, and personal experiences represent worldviews informed and enriched by their cultural heritage and the bond they share as members of a diverse creative community in Atlanta. Join Cosmo Whyte, Artist, Instructor of Art & Program Director, Creative and Performing Arts at Morehouse College, as he leads students through the exhibition and discusses his own work.
Sept 26- Crazy in Love with Collecting: Beyoncé, Jay Z & Making $ense of the Art Market | Lecture by Dr. Cheryl Finley, Spelman College
Dr. Finley’s lecture takes us inside today's celebrity culture, highlighting the intersection of art, collecting, performance and display. Underscoring the scholarly framework of her current book project, Black Market: Inside the Art World, she shines a light on the global art economy, focusing on the relationship among artists, museums, biennials and migration.
Sept 30- Film Screening & Panel Discussion, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
The Women's Research and Resource Center will host a Tribute to Toni Morrison. Included in the tribute, a film screening of Toni Morrison - The Pieces I am and a panel discussion with filmmaker, Timothy GreenfieldSanders and invited speakers. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am offers an artful and intimate meditation on legendary storyteller Toni Morrison. The film examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. In addition to Ms. Morrison Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am includes original music and evocative works by contemporary African-American artists including Kara Walker, Rashid Johnson and Kerry James Marshall.
BONUS: Presentation: Power & Portraiture, Curating the Presidential Portrait, October 15, 2019, with Dorothy Moss, Ph.D. Dr. Dorothy Moss is Curator, Painting, Sculpture and Performance at the National Portrait Gallery, Coordinating Curator of the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative and Director, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
Field Study: Art Insider New York, October 16-19, 2019 in collaboration with the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Highlights: Black Portraiture[s] V. Memory and the Archive: Past, Present, Future. Academic Conference at NYU Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chairman of Education Coffee with Antwaun Sargent, independent writer, curator, critic and curator of the upcoming exhibition The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion and Dr. Sarah l. Lewis, Harvard art historian and editor of Aperture special issue
223, Vision & justice, 2016
October 2019
Oct 1- AUC Art Collective Inaugural Lecture | "Model Athlete: Race, Technology, and Boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in Early Twentieth-Century Paris" with Dr. Lyneise Williams, UNC Chapel Hill
Oct 1- AUC Art Collective Inaugural Lecture | "Model Athlete: Race, Technology, and Boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in Early Twentieth-Century Paris" with Dr. Lyneise Williams, UNC Chapel Hill
Oct 15- Power & Portraiture | Curating the Presidential Portrait – Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018 by Amy Sherald
Oct 22- Thinking Outside of the “White Cube” | The Trap Music Museum
Oct 15- Atlanta Celebrates Photography Public Art | The FENCE Photography Walking Tour with Dr. Cheryl Finley, Spelman College
Oct 25- Crafting for Life | Student-led Object Lessons at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
October 2019 Event Descriptions Oct 1- AUC Art Collective Inaugural Lecture | "Model Athlete: Race, Technology, and Boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in Early Twentieth-Century Paris" with Dr. Lyneise Williams, UNC Chapel Hill
The creation of the glamorous Black male athlete iconographic type in mass media is explored through the intersection of beauty, technology, fashion, masculinity, and the Black male athletic body in 1920s and 1930s Paris. This lecture is made possible by the Atlanta University Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies and the Alice L. Walton Foundation. Lyneise Williams is the Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD Yale 2004). She is the author of Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932, (February 2019, Bloomsbury Academic Publishers), which examines how Parisians’ visual iconography of Latin Americans in popular imagery inextricably links blackness to Latin American identity beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century.
Oct 4- Making Exhibitions: Curatorial Stories presented by the High Museum of Art in collaboration with Emory University Art History
Come along with the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies faculty and staff to learn about how curators make exhibitions through storytelling. Ruth Fine, Curator, National Gallery of Art (19722012), Stephanie Heydt, Curator of American Art, High Museum of Art and Sarah Kennel, Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art present Something over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series currently on view at the High Museum of Art.
Oct 10- Understanding Art Therapy with Dr. David Gussak at Georgia State University’s Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series
Art, Art History, Law, Psychology and Criminology come together in the field of Forensic Art Therapy which uses art as evidence to help resolve legal disputes. David Gussak, Ph.D., ATR-BC., is a Professor in The Florida State University Graduate Art Therapy program. He is also the Project Coordinator for the FSU/Fl Department of Corrections Art Therapy in Prisons Program. He has presented extensively internationally and nationally on forensic art therapy and art therapy in forensic settings. Among his numerous journal and chapter publications, he has also authored his own books, including -among others- Art on Trial: Art Therapy for Capital Murder Cases (Columbia University Press) and the soon to be released Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity (Routledge Publishing). He is also the co-editor [with Dr. Marcia Rosal] and contributing author of The Wiley Handbook of Art Therapy. Dr. Gussak is working on his latest book on the relationship between art and violence for the Oxford University Press.
Oct 15- Atlanta Celebrates Photography Public Art | The FENCE Photography Walking Tour with Dr. Cheryl Finley, Spelman College
The FENCE is a large-scale traveling photography exhibition reaching over 8 million visitors annually through open-air exhibitions in 8 cities across North America: Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn, Calgary, Denver, Houston, Sarasota and Seattle. The Atlanta exhibition stretches 700+ feet on the Atlanta Beltline and features over 40 photographers telling diverse stories from around the world. Join Dr. Cheryl Finley, Art Historian & Director, AUC Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies for a walking tour of this annual exhibition during Atlanta Celebrates Photography, an annual, citywide photography festival that includes a wide variety of exhibitions and events around Atlanta and throughout the surrounding communities. ACP’s public art program features temporary projects in a variety of locations. Public Art reaches beyond the traditional arts venue and expands the way we consider photography.
October 2019 Event Descriptions Oct 15- Power & Portraiture | Curating the Presidential Portrait – Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018 by Amy Sherald
Dorothy Moss, Curator of Painting & Sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution will give an intimate, behind-the-scenes story of her work in bringing Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama to life. Dorothy Moss is the Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, the coordinating curator of the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative and the Director of the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. In February 2020, Moss's essay on Amy Sherald's portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama will be published in The Obama Portraits, a richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama (Princeton University Press / National Portrait Gallery). Her vast curatorial work includes IDENTIFY: Performance Art as Portraiture, The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now and The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers. Her forthcoming exhibition Hung Liu: Portraits of the Promised Lands, 1968–2020 will open at the National Portrait Gallery in 2021. Moss has held positions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Oct 22- Thinking Outside of the “White Cube” | The Trap Music Museum
Originally conceived as a pop-up exhibition in October 2018, Atlanta’s Trap Music Museum quickly evolved into a dedicated museum and one of Atlanta’s most in-demand (and Instagrammable #trapmusicmuseum) cultural destinations. A musical genre native of Atlanta, the history and culture of trap music is contextualized and displayed through the museum’s immersive installations and art exhibitions. Join the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies and the Trap Music Museum staff & invited artists as we tour the Trap Music Museum and discuss the role of curatorial practice in illustrating the story of trap music, while giving a platform to local and emerging artists in Atlanta.
Oct 25- Crafting for Life | Student-led Object Lessons at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum Join the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies faculty and staff as six students in Dr. Webb-Binder’s Seminar in Curatorial Practice give gallery talks that demonstrate the insight they have gained about selected art objects in CAUAM’s permanent collection exhibition, Crafting for Life. The object lesson is a foundational exercise in the object-based teaching approach of the AUC Collective. Oct 30- Come on in Y’all | The Archives Profession & You at Woodruff Library
October is archives month! Join the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History & Curatorial Studies faculty and staff for an information session about career opportunities in the archives profession. Through this program, you will learn firsthand about the profession from your very own AUC Archivists and the role of the archivist in similar professions including the fields of museum and curatorial studies, library science and conservation.
BONUS: Lunchtime Conversation with Curators: Lauren Haynes and Hallie Ringle in collaboration with the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, November 7, 2019 Lauren Haynes, Curator of Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Hallie Ringle, Curator of Contemporary Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Art History Endowed Colloquium at Emory University, The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture with James Meyer, November 22, 2019 James Meyer, Curator of Modern Art, 1945-1974, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
November 2019
Nov 2- Guided Exhibition Tour | Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series with Spelman College President, Mary Schmidt Campbell at the High Museum of Art
Nov 4- Lunchtime Conversation | A Black Girl’s Guide to Art History : Rule Number One: Leap headfirst into adventure! Lunchtime Conversation with Dr. Bernida Webb-Binder, Spelman College
Nov 14- Open Studios | Atlanta Contemporary
Nov 18-Lunch Panel & Information Session | Internships in the Visual Arts
Nov 7- Lunchtime Conversation with Curators
Nov 21- Conversation |1952: A Reflection on the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum Permanent Collection with Dr. Maurita N. Poole
November 2019 Event Descriptions Nov 2- Guided Exhibition Tour | Something Over Something Else: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series with Spelman College President, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., at the High Museum of Art Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, author of the award-winning biography, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden (Oxford University Press, 2018), has conducted extensive art historical research on Romare Bearden’s life and work. Through this exclusive, guided exhibition tour at the High Museum of Art, she will share insight into the prolific career of one of America’s most important twentieth-century artists.
Nov 4- Lunchtime Conversation | A Black Girl’s Guide to Art History : Rule Number One: Leap headfirst into adventure! Lunchtime Conversation with Dr. Bernida WebbBinder, Spelman College
Dr. Bernida Webb-Binder, Assistant Professor of Art History & Curatorial Studies at Spelman College has adventured across the country and around the world as an art historian. This engaging talk pairs famous works of art with Dr. Webb-Binder's exciting personal photographs of her global adventures in art history from rural Louisiana to Carleton College in Minnesota to graduate school in New Zealand, to her first teaching job in California, to research in Hawaii, to Ph.D. studies in Upstate New York, to invited conferences in Florence, London and Washington, and now, Atlanta! Join Dr. Webb-Binder as she shares her “Top Ten Rules” for bringing Black Girl Magic to Art History and Curatorial Studies and explore where art history can take you!
Nov 7- Lunchtime Conversation with Curators
Please join the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in partnership with the AUC Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies for an exclusive lunch with Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., Director at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and co-curator of Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 - 2003, Lauren Haynes, Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Hallie Ringle, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. In advance of their evening panel discussion, When, Where, and How We Enter: Honoring the Legacies of Black Women* the curators will discuss their dynamic careers. Please bring your questions to this rare opportunity to learn about curatorial studies from the inside out. *The evening panel discussion will include Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Melissa Messina, Curator of the Mildred Thompson Estate and co-curator of Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986 - 2003, along with the curators mentioned above.
Nov 7- Panel | When, Where, and How We Enter: A Conversation on Amplifying the Legacies of Black Women Abstract Painters, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Join AUC Collective staff & faculty at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art for a landmark conversation with women curators who are leading the charge to increase the visibility of Black women abstract artists. Panelists include Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Lauren Haynes, Curator of Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Melissa Messina, Curator of the Mildred Thompson Estate, and Hallie Ringle, Curator of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art. Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, will moderate the conversation.
November 2019 Event Descriptions Nov 8- Artist Talk | RaFia SanTana
Join Brooklyn-based, multi-disciplinary artist, RaFia Santana for an engaging talk about exploring identity through art. Santana’s work has been exhibited at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, MoCADA, Tate Britain, the Museum of the Moving Image, Housing NY, BronxArtSpace, and more and has been featured in publications such as Teen Vogue, Paper Magazine, VICE and Topical Cream Magazine. Read more here: https://raf-i-a.tumblr.com/
Nov 14- Open Studios | Atlanta Contemporary
Would you like to learn more about how art is made? Are you interested in meeting local artists? Join the AUC Collective faculty and staff for Open Studios at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center for a behind-the-scenes look at how and why artists do what they do.
Nov 16- Thinking Outside of the “White Cube” | The Temporary Art Center Symposium
Conceived of by Atlanta-based artist and curator, Scott Ingram, the Temporary Art Center seeks to create awareness of the talented artists living and working in the city, as well as highlight those who must leave in order for their careers to flourish. In the soon to be demolished, Conklin Metal Building, the Center will present Project, an exhibition featuring work by local artists and those who once called Atlanta home. Join the AUC Art Collective faculty and staff for a lively symposium on understanding the Atlanta art scene. Read more here: www.temporaryartcenter.com
Nov 18-Lunch Panel & Information Session | Internships in the Visual Arts
Internships are critical for art history and curatorial studies students interested in gaining hands-on experience in the art world as well as building a professional network. Students from all majors are welcome to join AUC Collective students, faculty and staff for an engaging session about internships. The session will feature a panel of students who have held internships at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Petersen Automotive Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. The panel discussion will be moderated by Toni Ireland, Assistant Director - Career Planning & Development at Spelman College. Following the panel, information will be provided on how to prepare for your Summer 2020 internship. Art History majors and Curatorial Studies minors are eligible for paid summer internships.
Nov 21- Conversation |1952: A Reflection on the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum Permanent Collection with Dr. Maurita N. Poole
Join the AUC Art Collective faculty & staff and Director and Curator of the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Maurita N. Poole as she facilitates a discussion of John Wilson's 1952 mural "The Incident" in relation to several works submitted to the Atlanta Annuals the same year. Come to participate in a dialogue about what this suggests about trends in African American art in the early fifties. The discussion will also consider what it reveals about developments since that time.
Invited Students: Ming Washington C' 2022, Spelman College + Destinee Filmore C'2021, Spelman College
Looking forward to Spring 2020... January 24th To Preserve a Legacy: Art
Conservation at the Atlanta University Center symposium in collaboration with the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network January 25th Looming Chaos exhibition opening & reception with TK Smith (Tina Dunkley Fellow in American Art at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum) January 30th Wieland Private Collection visit with Art Advisor and Curator, Rebecca Cochran February 3rd Lecture by Photography Historian, Leigh Raiford, Ph .D. March 3rd Lecture by Art Historian & Photographer, Deborah Willis, Ph.D.
Spring 2020 Field Study Opportunities Saturday, February 1- Sunday, February 2 | Getty Graduate Symposium 2020 in Los Angeles, California Wednesday, February 12th - Friday, February 14th | College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois Saturday, February 22nd- Sunday, February 23rd | Opening of the Momentary, a new space for contemporary visual and performing arts in Bentonville, Arkansas Sunday, March 8th - Wednesday, March 11th | Art Insider Washington D.C. May | The Dakar Biennale (Dak'Art - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain) in Dakar, Senegal
Special Research Project | Mapping Art History at the AUC Mapping Art History at the AUC is a new initiative of the AUC Art Collective designed to bring greater awareness of the art historical foundations of the AUC through guided student research, including oral history interviews, archival research at the Woodruff Library, and mapping and design projects at the Spelman Innovation Lab. Part of a larger plan to map and record the history of the arts in the West End, students also will participate in a workshop at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in April 2020 in collaboration with Dr. Mabel O. Wilson's Reconstructions architecture and urban planning exhibition scheduled for fall 2020. At the end of the semester, students are encouraged to present their research in progress at Research Day at Spelman College and in other capstone presentations of the AUC.
Thank you! Image: Students view work by Morehouse College alumnus, Derek Fordjour at the AUC Woodruff Library