A presentation by alternative cartoonist Gabrielle Bell
Tuesday, November 4th
The Wyndham Ely Room
Bryn Mawr College
4:30 PM
Sponsored by the Center for Visual Culture, the Creative Writing Program and the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund
Category Archives: Special Lectures
March 28 and 29 – A Century of Self-Expression
Join us for Artist, Scholar, and Student Voices
Artist talk with painter Yvonne JacquetteFriday, March 28, 6:00 pm, Bryn Mawr College Thomas Hall 224
Breakfast buffet and presentations by Armory Show scholar Laurette McCarthy and 360 Program students
Saturday, March 29 9:30am, Bryn Mawr College Thomas Hall 110
Please learn more about the exhibition, related courses, and upcoming screenings and other events at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-5pOBXgvI0
http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibitions.html
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-Bryn-Mawr-College-Library/205274397222
http://modernart360.blogs.brynmawr.edu/
On behalf of the students, faculty, staff, and supporters responsible for this project, thank you for your time.
*Exhibition in Canaday Library (open noon to 4:30 daily) open Friday until just before 6pm talk.
*Did you read the part about breakfast on Saturday morning?
For more information, please contact:
Brian Wallace (bwallace@brynmawr.edu)
Bryn Mawr College Curator and Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts
March 19: Special Lecture – Matteo Compareti
Matteo Compareti, ISAW, NYU
Wednesday, March 19, 5:30-7PM, Jaffe Bldg. 113, 34th and Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania
“On the Painting Programs in Sogdian Paintings before and after the Islamic Conquest: Sources, Narratives, Styles”
Lecture series sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Ancient Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Departments of the History of Art, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Religious Studies and Classical Studies
April 2: Special Lecture – Judith Lerner
Judith Lerner, ISAW, NYU
“Visual Cultures of Greater Iran: The Art of the Sasanians, Kushano-Sasanians and the ‘Iranian’ Huns in Bactria.”
Wednesday, April 2, 5:30-7PM, Jaffe Bldg. 113, 34th and Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture series sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Ancient Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Departments of the History of Art, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Religious Studies and Classical Studies
January 22, 2014 – John Kelly
Performance Artist in Residence
John Kelly is the recipient of numerous awards including two Bessie Awards, two Obie Awards, two NEA American Masterpiece Awards, an American Choreographer Award, a CalArts/ Alpert Award in Dance/Performance, a Visual AIDS Vanguard Award, and the 2010 Ethyl Eichelberger Award. His fellowships include the Rome Prize in Visual Art at The American Academy in Rome, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, The Guggenheim Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and Art Matters, Inc.
February 24 – Hermits & History in Augustine’s Tomb
The Art History Lecture Series, Villanova University presents:
Hermits & History in Augustine’s Tomb
by Louise Bourdua, University of Warwick
Monday, February 24th at 4:30 p.m., Bartley 1011
Co-sponsored by the Augustinian Institute, the History Department and the Office for Mission and Ministry
Ninth Biennial Graduate Group Symposium-October 4 & 5, 2013
HOME: DEPARTURE AND DESTINATION
October 4-5, 2013
The Bryn Mawr Community is warmly invited to the Ninth Biennial Graduate Group Symposium. This event brings Bryn Mawr’s Graduate Group together with graduate students from around the country to present research and examine ideas around “Home” from the perspectives of Archaeology, Classics, the History of Art, and beyond. Kostis Kourelis, Assistant Professor at Franklin and Marshall College, will start off the symposium with Friday’s Keynote Talk: “The Membrology of Home: Tales from the Archaeological Underground.”
This week, and throughout the Symposium weekend, a complementary exhibit of domestic items from the Bryn Mawr Special Collections will be on view in the Kaiser Reading Room, Carpenter Library.
For more information, including times and locations, please visit our new site:
Andrew Hare Lecture – Monday, September 9
“After the Disaster: Japan’s Ongoing Efforts to Conserve Cultural Properties”
A special lecture by Andrew Hare, Supervisory Conservator, East Asian Painting Conservation Studio, Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Monday, September 9
4:15-5:00
Beardsley 316
Swarthmore College
Reception to follow at the Wister Center, Swarthmore College
This event is open to the public and is sponsored by the BMC 360° Program, Department of Art, Japanese Section, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Asian Studies
April 12 – Michelle Ortíz Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Immigration
“Aquí y Allá”: Migration, Art, and Social Justice
Friday, April 12, 7:00 pm
Bryn Mawr College, Thomas Library 224
*Refreshments offered prior to talk at 6:30pm*
“Aquí y Allá” is a short documentary chronicling a transnational public art project that connected Mexican immigrant students in Philadelphia with youth in Chihuahua, Mexico to create a permanent mural in South Philadelphia. Following the film screening, the panelists will discuss the immigrant rights movement and the critical role art plays in the struggle for social justice.
Panelists:
Michelle Angela Ortíz
Creator, Director, and Lead Artist of the “Aquí y Allá” Mural Project
Erika Almirón
Executive Director of JUNTOS, a Latino immigrant community-led non-profit organization in Philadelphia
Amada Armenta
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
Moderator:
Jennifer Harford Vargas
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Bryn Mawr College
Reception following panel in the Thomas London Room.
Free and open to the public.
Made possible by the generous support of the Bryn Mawr College Center for Visual Culture, the departments of English, History of Art, Spanish, and Growth and Structure of Cities, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Pensby Center, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, the Center for Social Science, the Program in Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Peoples and Cultures, and the 1902 Lecture Fund. Additional support provided by Enlace and the Intercultural Center, Swarthmore College.
March 18-22 – The Living Art of Islamic Calligraphy
