Tuscaloosa. — Explore the visionary landscape of the medieval Book of Revelation with one of its eminent scholars, Dr. Richard K. Emmerson. Dr. Emmerson will deliver a public lecture, “Apocalypse Illuminated,” on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 6:30 pm in Smith Hall 205 on UA campus. Richard K. Emmerson is Dean Emeritus of the School of Liberal Arts at Manhattan College, former Professor and Chair of Art History at Florida State University, and currently Visiting Distinguished Professor at FSU. He has served as Deputy Director of Fellowships at the National Endowment for the Humanities and as Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, and has edited Speculum, Studies in Iconography, and Traditio. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he received the Medieval Academy Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies in 2009. Dr. Emmerson’s research focuses on medieval apocalypticism and its representation in art, drama, and visionary poetry. He has published seven books, including Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature (1981), The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature (1992, with Ronald B. Herzman), and The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (1993, with Bernard McGinn). His most recent book, studying the seven-hundred year history of medieval Apocalypse manuscripts, is Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Manuscripts, published by Pennsylvania State University Press in 2018. He has authored more than fifty articles, many studying word-image relationships in medieval illustrated manuscripts. Recent essays include “On the Threshold of the Last Days: Negotiating Image and Word in the Apocalypse of Jean de Berry,” in Exploring the Threshold of Medieval Visual Culture (2012); “Visualizing the Visionary: John in his Apocalypse,” in Looking Beyond: Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval Art and Thought (2010); “Framing the Apocalypse: The Performance of John’s Life in the Trinity Apocalypse,” in Visualizing Medieval Performance (2008); “Visualizing the Vernacular: Middle English in Early Fourteenth-Century Bilingual and Trilingual Manuscript Illustrations,” in Studies in Manuscript Illumination: A Tribute to Lucy Freeman Sandler (2008); “A ‘Large Order of the Whole’: Intertextuality and Interpictoriality in the Hours of Isabella Stuart,” Studies in Iconography (2007); and “The Representation of Antichrist in Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias: Image, Word, Commentary, and Visionary Experience,” Gesta (2002). Image credit: Silos Apocalypse: Northern Spain, c.1100, British Library Add. MS 11695, ff.147v-148. Richard K. Emmerson's lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, go here: https://art.ua.edu/resources/visiting-artists/. Smith Hall, 427 Sixth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, is a four-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. Parking is free on campus in a legal space after business hours. For more information on this or the other speakers in our upcoming Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, contact Rachel Dobson (rachel.dobson@ua.edu) or Pete Schulte (pschulte@ua.edu).
Artist Karl Haendel to Speak at UA
Tuscaloosa. — Artist Karl Haendel will give a public lecture on Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall, on UA campus. Known for his use of appropriation and meticulous draftsmanship, Karl Haendel works in "issues of artistic and cultural heritage and power." His work has been described as "strategically [manipulating] tangled visual, material, and textual themes, often to humorous and evocative effect." Haendel makes drawings, installations, films and public projects in Los Angeles where he lives and works. He received a bachelor’s degree in art semiotics and art history from Brown University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Haendel also studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Articles and reviews about his work have been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Guardian and in magazines including The New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, Art and America and Modern Painters. Haendel has been included in the Biennial of the Americas (2015), the Whitney Biennial (2014), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Prospect (2011), and the California Biennial (2004, 2008). His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Guggenheim Museum, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Fogg Art Museum; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. He has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the California Community Foundation and is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY; Wentrup, Berlin and Barbara Seiler, Zurich. Image Credit: Karl Haendel, Rodeo 9, 2017, pencil and graphite powder on paper, 103 x 77 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. Karl Haendel's lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, click here. 205 Smith Hall, at 427 Sixth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, is a four-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. Parking is free on campus in a legal space after business hours. For more information on this or the other speakers in our upcoming Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, contact Rachel Dobson (rachel.dobson@ua.edu) or Pete Schulte (pschulte@ua.edu).
Art Historian to Talk on Black Arts Movement
Tuscaloosa. — Dr. Rebecca Zorach will deliver a public lecture, “‘The Time is Now!’ The Black Arts Movement in Chicago, circa 1968,” on Wednesday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m., in 205 Gorgas Library. Please join us for a pre-lecture reception at 5:30 p.m. in 205 Gorgas Library sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences Diversity Committee. Rebecca Zorach (Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago) is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University where she teaches and writes on early modern European art (15th-17th century), contemporary activist art and art of the 1960s and 1970s. Particular interests include print media, feminist and queer theory, theory of representation and the multiple intersections of art and politics. Included among her many publications is the award-winning book, Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Before joining the faculty at Northwestern she taught at the University of Chicago for fourteen years. She has been a visiting faculty member at Yale University, the École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales and Williams College, where she was Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor in 2013-14. Her books include The Passionate Triangle (University of Chicago Press, 2011); the edited volumes Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis (with Amy Bingaman and Lisa Shapiro Sanders, Routledge, 2002); The Idol in the Age of Art (with Michael Cole, Routledge, 2009) and Art Against the Law (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014). Recent articles have addressed AfriCOBRA's gender and family politics; Claes Oldenburg's lawsuit challenging the copyright of the Chicago Picasso and the experimental art center Art & Soul, founded on the west side of Chicago in 1968 by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Conservative Vice Lords, a former street gang. She is currently completing a book on Art & Soul and the landscape of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago (late 1960s-1970s), and undertaking a new project that will consider the relationship of artistic and political agency to natural and social ecologies. She is a member of Feel Tank Chicago, is on the board of the South Side Community Art Center and South Side Projections and co-organizes the archive and oral history project Never The Same with Daniel Tucker. Image credit: Darryl Cowherd, Be Black, Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Dr. Zorach's lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, go here: https://art.ua.edu/resources/visiting-artists/. Gorgas Library, 711, Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, is a four-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. Parking is free on campus in a legal space after business hours. For more information on this or the other speakers in our upcoming Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, contact Rachel Dobson (rachel.dobson@ua.edu) or Pete Schulte (pschulte@ua.edu).
Artist Wendy White to Speak at UA
Tuscaloosa. — Artist Wendy White will give a public lecture on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. in Gallalee Hall Room 227, on UA campus. Wendy White’s work has been described as “most preoccupied with the lifespan of seemingly dissonant places, people, and things, all of which are bound by the same sense of impermanence and eventual decay.” The themes of White’s work include athletes and athletics, machismo culture, domesticity, branding and pop culture, which she expresses with photographic images, layered fields of paint, cutout shapes, letters, text and spray-painted graffiti. Wendy White lives and works in New York City. She holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Her exhibitions include The Art Show: Art of the New Millenium in Taguchi Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan; Futbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014); Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection: A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan (2015); So Athletic, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (2012); Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (2011); Hue & Cry, Sotheby's S|2, New York, N.Y. (2012); Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University, Mich. (2012); Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (2010); and Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Neb. (2010). She has had solo exhibitions at Leo Koenig Inc., New York, N.Y.; Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium; Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago; Cabinet, Milan; Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris; and Galeria Moriarty, Madrid. White is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts painting fellowship in 2012 and a George Segal painting grant in 2008. Her work was featured in Phaidon’s anthology Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting and will be included in the forthcoming group show entitled The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, curated by Franklin Sirmans, at Perez Art Museum, Miami. Her website is here: http://www.wendywhite.net/. Image Credit: Wendy White, Janet Guthrie, 2017, acrylic and inkjet on three canvases, Dibond, 72 1/4 x 60 1/4 inches. Image courtesy of the artist. Wendy White’s lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, click here. Gallalee Hall, 174 6th Ave., Tuscaloosa, is a little over five-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. Parking is free on campus in a legal space after business hours. For more information on this or the other speakers in our upcoming Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, contact Rachel Dobson (rachel.dobson@ua.edu) or Pete Schulte (pschulte@ua.edu).
Art History Scholar to Talk on 1930s Cartoon
UPDATE! Professor Gregory Clark's lecture is Thursday, January 25, at 5:00 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall. Tuscaloosa.–Professor of art history Gregory Clark will give a public lecture on Thursday, January 25, at 5:00 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall on UA campus. Dr. Clark will present a highly engaging and multimedia presentation, "Max and Dave Fleischer's Betty Boop: A 20s Flapper Marooned in the Depression-Era 30s." Gregory Clark is Professor of Art History at Sewanee where he has taught since 1989. Dr. Clark holds a Ph.D. in art history from Princeton University. He is a scholar of early American animation, and he is a dynamic lecturer on this topic. Professor Clark's published scholarship has centered on manuscript illumination in northern France and the southern Netherlands in the fifteenth century. In addition to numerous articles, he has published four books since 1997. The first was a commentary on a Book of Hours made in Bruges, Belgium, around 1455. Three years later, Clark published a monograph on the Ghent Privileges Master, a book painter active in the southern Netherlands from around 1440 to 1460. His study on the Spitz Hours, a manuscript made in Paris around 1420, was published in 2003 by the J. Paul Getty Trust. In 2010, Clark saw to press a commentary volume to accompany the complete facsimile produced by ADEVA of Graz, Austria, of the Da Costa Hours, a masterpiece of about 1515 by the celebrated book painter Simon Bening of Ghent and Bruges. Dr. Clark's lecture is part of the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama. To see our past and future visiting artists and scholars, click here. Smith Hall, 427 6th Ave, Tuscaloosa, is a four minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. Parking is free on campus in a legal space after business hours.
Gallery Talk on Printmaking Scheduled in the SMGA
Visiting artist and alumnus William Hall will hold an exhibition walkthrough in the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Tuesday, November 7 at 10:00 a.m. Hall will talk about prints in the current show, Contemporary Consolidated: Selections from the Permanent Collection. As a former master printer at the esteemed Pace Editions for three decades, Hall is intimately familiar with the printing process, the artists and many of the prints on exhibit in this exhibition. During his time at Pace, Hall worked with internationally acclaimed and lesser-known contemporary artists including Donald Baechler, Richmond Burton, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Tara Donovan, Helen Frankenthaler and more, representing a broad range of printmaking processes. A highpoint of Hall’s career was assisting master printer Aldo Crommelynck for ten years at Pace. Crommelynck is best known for his extensive collaboration with Pablo Picasso. Originally from Red Level, Alabama, William Hall received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from UA in 1973 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and printmaking from the University of Texas in 1976. He moved to New York in 1982 and began his career as a printmaker and collaborative printer at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop. Four years later, he established his own studio, NYLE Press, and then joined Pace Editions in 1988 until his retirement in 2015. Pace is one of the largest publishers of contemporary fine art prints in the United States. The William and Sara Hall Collection includes more than 475 signed, limited-edition artists’ prints that the Halls collected over the years. The Halls donated the $1.5 million collection to UA’s Sarah Moody Gallery of Art in 2014. Funding support for this event comes from the printmaking media area of The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History and New College. For more information, contact the gallery at (205) 348-1891 or go to http://art.ua.edu/gallery/smga/. Read this news release online: For more information about The University of Alabama’s programs in studio art and art history, go here: https://art.ua.edu/academics/graduate-programs/art-requirements/. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/. Parking is free on campus in a legal space after business hours. Contact the gallery at (205) 348-1891 or go to http://art.ua.edu/gallery/smga/.
Visiting Artist Ridley Howard to Lecture
Tuscaloosa.-- Artist Ridley Howard will give a public lecture on Thursday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. in Gorgas Library 205 on UA campus. Georgia native Ridley Howard is a figurative painter and speaker and co-founder of the artist-run gallery 106 Green in Brooklyn, N.Y. Howard's work has been written about in the New York Times, Art In America, Artforum, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications. 106 Green was listed in the New York Times,' "10 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn" in April of 2017. Howard received his BA and BFA from the University of Georgia, Athens, and MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He currently shows with Marinaro Gallery, NY; Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm; and Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami. He has had solo exhibitions at Koenig & Clinton, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; and Savannah College of Art and Design. Howard will have a forthcoming exhibition at Galeria Mascota in Mexico City. Recent group exhibitions include Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, curated by Eric Fischl, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT; Human Condition, curated by John Wolf, Los Angeles; Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; and Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY. He has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. More information on his work can be found here: https://www.marinaro.biz/ridley-howard and www.ridleyhoward.com. Image credit: Ridley Howard, "Lake House at Night," 2016, oil on linen, 25 x 32 inches (courtesy of the artist). The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, the Visiting Artist and Scholar Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Continuing Studies at The University of Alabama.
Artist Lecture: Cosmo Whyte
Jamaican artist Cosmo Whyte will give a talk titled, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," about his multidisciplinary practice on Thursday, April 13 in Gorgas 205, 7:00 p.m. Whyte employs drawing, performance and sculpture to create conceptual work that explores how notions of identity are disrupted by migration. His visit is sponsored by The Kirby Endowment and the Department of Art and Art History. Whyte describes himself and his work: "I situate my work in the liminal space between early culture shock and final acclimatization. My creative process begins through the interrogation of my own (racialized as black, gendered as man) body, and the personal memories that are embedded within it. I use this archive as my entry point into collective political interrogations." Assistant Professor Jane Cassidy, who organized Whyte's visit, encourages visitors from several disciplines to attend the lecture. "His work is so relevant to the current political climate and innovative in the manner he speaks to immigration. He speaks on pertinent issues in an encompassing and welcoming fashion that only further draws his audience into his work and ideas." More about Whyte here: http://www.cosmowhyte.com/. For more information, contact Jane Cassidy jcassidy@ua.edu.
UA Art and Art History Hosts 22nd Graduate Symposium
Graduate students from UA and around the country will present their research at the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History at The University of Alabama on March 3, 2017. Art history grad students from UA, UAB and from institutions including George Washington University, Case Western Reserve and the University of Georgia, will present papers at UA's Bryant Conference Center. In addition, this year, undergraduate students in art history have been invited to present research in a poster session. After prizes for Best Paper and Best Poster are awarded, Dr. Kristin Schwain, Associate Professor of American Art at the University of Missouri, will give the keynote address at 3:45 p.m. Schwain's talk is titled, “Establishing an African American Eden: Samuel Albert Countee’s World War II Mural for Fort Leonard Wood’s Black Officers’ Club.” This year’s symposium is generously supported by the College of Continuing Studies; Robert Olin, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Tricia McElroy, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Roger Sidje, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; The University of Alabama Graduate School; The Kirby Endowment (Department of Art and Art History), the Department of American Studies, and Harrison Galleries LLC. Download this year's program here (PDF). Issuu.com version here. Photos: Flickr.com | Facebook.com | List of presenters and award winners Now in its 22nd year, the Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History provides a forum for the presentation of graduate student research drawn from all areas of art history. The symposium also features a keynote lecture by a leading scholar of art history. Previous speakers have included Paul Barolsky (Italian Renaissance art), Allison Kettering (Dutch Baroque art), Michael Yonan (18th-19th century European art), and Graham Boettcher, the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. The symposium alternates campuses each year. The Master of Arts degree in art history is offered jointly by The University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The MA degree in art history prepares students for further academic study at the doctoral level or for professional careers in teaching, museums, galleries and other arts-related fields. Students may enroll on either campus and must take at least 6 hours of course work on the other campus. Contact: Dr. Lucy Curzon, Director of Graduate Studies, lcurzon@ua.edu, (205) 348-6458.