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Sunday, October 27, 2019
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(All Day)
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5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Monday, October 28, 2019
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(All Day)
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(All Day)
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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Bicentenary Celebration of the Birth of The Báb, Leonard Auditorium
(multiple cals)
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Description: |
Please join us for
the 200th year celebration
of the birth of The Báb, the forerunner of the The Bahá’í Faith. As a faith
tradition that values diversity in all of its forms, the Spartanburg Bahá’is
welcome all members of the Wofford community
to one of its most important celebrations – regardless of the religious
affiliation (or non-affiliation) of the attendees. This event, featuring Dr.
Hoda Mahmoudi (Research Professor and Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the
University of Maryland, College Park), is co-sponsored by the Bahá’is of
Spartanburg City and the offices of religious and spiritual life at Wofford,
Converse, and Southern Methodist colleges.
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Location: |
Leonard Auditorium |
Contact: |
Ron Robinson
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
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(All Day)
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11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersections w/Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday - 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday - 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
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(All Day)
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersection with Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday: 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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MENA Lecture Series: Situating the Arabian Gulf: An Anthropologist’s Perspective, McMillan Theater
(Academic)
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Description: |
Situating the Arabian Gulf: An Anthropologist’s Perspective The Arabian Gulf (sometimes called the Persian Gulf) sits between Arabia and Persia and in easy reach of Africa and India. What has this meant for the states along its shores? Sharon Nagy, an ethnographer with over a decade of experience in the Arabian Gulf States, reflects on how the unique location and flows through the Gulf have shaped the society and cultures, and influenced her work.
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Location: |
McMillan Theater |
Contact: |
Courtney Dorroll
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6:30 PM
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Hipp Lecture Series: Major Garrett, Leonard Auditorium
(Academic)
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Description: |
CBS News chief
Washington, D.C., correspondent Major Garrett will speak at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Leonard Auditorium on “Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride.” Doors
open at 5:30 p.m. A book signing and reception will be held following his talk
in the lobby of Main Building; books will be available for purchase at the
event.
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Location: |
Leonard Auditorium |
Contact: |
Melissa Petoskey
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Thursday, October 31, 2019
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(All Day)
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11:00 AM - Noon
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How can teaching for equity serve all Wofford students? Olin 101
(Academic)
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Description: |
In this talk, Tema Okun and Krista Robinson-Lyles of Teach.Equity.Now will take a closer look at what teaching for equity looks like and invite an exploration of how equity benefits all students. Teach.Equity.Now offers programming to support faculty, staff, and students who take teaching and learning seriously. The program supports participants to grow their skills in navigating issues of race and equity in the classroom, through the curriculum, and on campus while building a strong and diverse learning community. This talk is open to all faculty, staff, and students.
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Location: |
Olin 101 |
Contact: |
Anne Catllá and Begoña Caballero
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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Friday, November 1, 2019
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(All Day)
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Intersection of Art and Literature in the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Southern
Gothic: Intersections of Art and Literature in the Johnson Collection
From Edgar
Allen Poe’s haunting tale of The Gold Bug (1843) to Flannery
O'Connor’s biting short story “Good Country People” (1955), the Southern
Gothic literary tradition has exhumed the American South’s aberrations,
contradictions, and unique sense of dark humor. Drawing exclusively
from the Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic examines how
nineteenth-and twentieth-century artists borrowed from their literary
peers, using a potent visual language to address the tensions between the
South’s idyllic visions and its historical realities.This exhibition is
guest curated by Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, a Ph.D. candidate from the
University California, Santa Barbara, and the Johnson Collection’s 2019
graduate fellow.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday - 1 - 5 p.m. Thursdays - 1 - 9 p.m. Exhibit closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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Saturday, November 2, 2019
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(All Day)
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(All Day)
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersection of Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday: 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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