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THE ACCIDENTAL POSSIBILITIES OF THE CITY: CLAES OLDENBURG’S URBANISM IN POSTWAR AMERICA
KATHERINE SMITH IN CONVERSATION WITH SUSANNEH BIEBER Event date: Monday, March 1, 2021 – 7:30pm to 9:00pm Charis and Agnes Scott College welcome Professor Katherine Smith in conversation with Susanneh Bieber for a celebration of Smith’s groundbreaking study of the sculptor, Claes Oldenburg: The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar America. This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis’ virtual event platform. Register here. Claes Oldenburg’s commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with Pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg’s profound responses to shifting urban conditions, framing his enduring relationship with the city…
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Katherine Smith––In the Streets with Claes Oldenburg
The High Museum of Art March 25 6:30 pm Related to The Accidental Possibilities of the CIty: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar America
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Kevin Beasley –– Race, Social Justice, and Contemporary African American Art
Emory University http://jamesweldonjohnson.emory.edu/home/colloquium/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D150432999 February 28, 4:15 pm ONLINE Flier Beasley’s bio Register in advance (see flier)
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Claire Bishop–Déjà Vu: Contemporary Art About Modernist Architecture
University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana [online] January 28, 6:30 pm EST https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/6383?eventId=33398244 Requires advance registration
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The Designs of Nature: Form, Matter, and the Making of Art in Early Modern Europe
Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History: Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University The Designs of Nature: Form, Matter, and the Making of Art in Early Modern Europe This series of lectures explores the idea of the agency and creativity of a sometimes personified “Nature” in late medieval and early modern Europe. Often seeming to operate with surprising independence from the Christian God, Nature was understood as both a creator of artists and a powerful generator of images that served as inspiration to those same artists. The series of lectures traces a set of ideas that shaped the work of artists and art theorists, scientists and theologians in both northern and southern Europe, looking…
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Imagining the Artifact: Harley Ngai Grieco
Harley Ngai Grieco will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Thursday, January 28, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “Imagining the Artifact: Collaging Blue and White Chinese Pottery.” As a style of porcelain decoration, Chinese blue and white is globally ubiquitous. How did this occur and what are the effects of its pervasive design? Through this inquiry, Harley Ngai Grieco will share her research into the dissemination of Chinese porcelain imagery and its many histories. She will then present on-going artistic projects, which combine her photo-sculptural practice with her current research at the Bard Graduate Center Library. LINK TO REGISTER This post is excerpted from Bard Graduate Events Center
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Meet James Cyrus (HIGH MUSEUM)
In his upcoming talk, Cyrus will delve into the role of self-education in his artistic practice, as well as themes of Black American culture and spirituality in the African diaspora. By Eva Berlin, Digital Content Specialist, High Museum of Art On February 4, join Cyrus for his Driskell Prize Lecture: “Phylacteries to Repel Ghosts.” He will discuss the important role autodidacticism, or being self-taught, plays within his work and in Black American culture at large. On February 4, join Cyrus for his Driskell Prize Lecture: “Phylacteries to Repel Ghosts.” He will discuss the important role autodidacticism, or being self-taught, plays within his work and in Black American culture at large. Reserve tickets today for the…
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Press Here: Atlanta Printmakers Process 2020
The Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College partnered with the Atlanta Printmakers Studio to bring together 15 artists for an exhibition on view in Spring 2021. It is undeniable that 2020 was an unprecedented year, the effects of which we cannot yet understand. The pandemic and the resulting economic chaos have been stressful, devastating, unnerving, and exhausting. As the number of cases in the US briefly appeared to go down, focus shifted to police brutality and oppression of Black bodies with the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police coming so quickly after the murders of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. This centuries-old persecution brought millions of people out into…
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Dawn Williams Boyd Featured in AJC Article
Searching for Home artist Dawn Williams Boyd was recently featured in an AJC article about the Atlanta artist’s new show “Cloth Paintings” at Fort Gansevoort Gallery in New York City. You can read the full article on ajc.com here.
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Searching for Home Video Exhibition Exploration
http://daltongallery.agnesscott.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Searching-for-Home-Final.-SD-540p.mp4 This year, more than ever, the search for home feels especially relevant. Is home now a place for business, schooling our children and family time? Is our current home ideal or just temporary? Searching for home explores the many ways people are contemplating home in 2020. The search for home is a journey that we all find ourselves on in life. In this video tour of our fall exhibition hear four artists from the exhibition, the College’s Director of Sustainability and three Agnes Scott College professors of anthropology, sociology, and culture discuss the ideas of home.
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Closed for Viewing Through Friday, October 16
The Exhibition will be closed for viewing through October 16. If you’ve signed up for an in person visit, you will be contacted by the gallery manager to reschedule. We are sorry for the inconvenience!
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Searching for Home Online Catalog
This is the virtual catalog for Searching for Home. Print versions are currently available at the gallery. See expanded images below or download the catalog pdf below.
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Searching for Home
Agnes Scott in person exhibition (covid safe!) noticed in Decaturish: News and information about Decatur and its neighbors throughout the Atlanta Metro area–Decaturish
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PRESS RELEASE
Agnes Scott’s Dalton Gallery Opens Exhibition with COVID-19 Safe Requirements Searching for Home Artists’ Work Explores Themes Relevant to Our Current World Decatur, GA – September 14, 2020 – The Department of Art and Art History at Agnes Scott College is pleased to announce the opening of Searching for Home, one in a series of quadrennial exhibitions generously sponsored by the Margaret Virginia Phillip Art Endowment Fund. “We couldn’t be sure if the show would go on once Covid-19 and its impact became our new normal,” said Nell Ruby, Art and Art History Program Chair at Agnes Scott. “I and our college leaders are particularly proud that we managed to…
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Welcome
Welcome to the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College. Our fall exhibition Transcendent will be on view September 20-December 5. Our Gallery Hours are: Monday through Friday 12-4pm (Special weekend hours are dependent upon staff availability. For changes to gallery hours please check our social media accounts.) About Dalton GalleryOn the campus of Agnes Scott College, near the corner of East Dougherty and South McDonough streets. Agnes Scott officially opened the Dalton Gallery in the Charles A. Dana Fine Arts Building on October 24, 1965. Named in honor of Harry L. Dalton and his wife, Mary Keesler Dalton, ’25, the gallery forms the central public area on the main floor of the building. …
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Searching for Home
A PROJECT OF THE MARGARET VIRGINIA PHILIP ENDOWMENT Gallery Hours:The gallery is currently open for in person visits by appointment only Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12-5pm. Reserve your ticket here. We have all searched for home. Some have found it, while for others it is a lifelong quest. In this century the entire interwoven globe has reeled from constant motion to arrested stop – and soon, back again — reacting to displacement – war – pandemic – violence – poverty – danger – climate – upheaval – politics – chaos – nature’s whims – disease. As the pendulum swings, some search for an ideal PLACE; others yearn for psychic or spiritual…
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Searching for Home
A Project of the Margaret Virginia Philip Endowment Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott CollegeSeptember 3–December 12, 2020 Online and by appointment Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 12-5pm. Reserve your ticket for an in person visit here. Stay tuned for details on our virtual tour of the exhibition. We have all searched for home. Some have found it, while for others it is a lifelong quest. In this century the entire interwoven globe has reeled from constant motion to arrested stop – and soon, back again — reacting to displacement – war – pandemic – violence – poverty – danger – climate – upheaval – politics – chaos – nature’s whims – disease.…
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Virtual Spring Student Showcase Exhibition
Welcome to the 2020 Virtual Spring Senior and Student Showcase Exhibition. You can find work in this exhibition here, on our instagram, and in our virtual gallery space. Join us for our opening reception Thursday, May 7, at 4pm on Zoom. You can RSVP here. Work by Class: Studio Art Senior Majors with Anne Beidler and Nell Ruby Digital Thinking – Art 144 with Nell Ruby Digital Thinking – Art 144 with Maria Korol Visual Thinking – Art 160 with Sarah Emerson Drawing and Composition – Art 240/340 with Sarah Emerson Drawing and Composition – Art 240/340 with Anne Beidler Painting Processes Art 241/341 with Sarah Emerson Printmaking – Art…
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&yet catalog
This is the catalog of works in &yet. As a part of our sustainability initiatives, a printed catalog will not be produced for the exhibition. You can click on the links by the listed works below or scan the corresponding QR code on the labels in the gallery to learn more about the works in &yet. & Curatorial Statement and Thanks & & Allison Aguilera, Passion Fruit, Porcelain and Watercolor, 2018 & & Roxanne Anderson, So Will Me & So Will You, Mixed Media on bristol mounted on fabric, 2019 & & Clarisa Berrios, Midnight, Watercolor and Gesso, 2019 & Sunday Morning, India Ink, 2019 & Hannah Brooks, Pacific…