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About curators, lecturers, judges, Fall 2010 The Figure in Photography | Man Ray | African Art | From Classic to Romantic The Figure in Photography, 1995–2010 About the exhibition > Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens
Tyler Stovall Tyler Stovall earned his B.A. in history at Harvard and his Ph.D. in modern European/French history at the University of Wisconsin. His Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light (Houghton Mifflin, 1996) is an indispensable study of the black experience in France. Recent authored or co-edited books include France since the Second World War (Longman, 2002), The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France (Duke University Press, 2003), and French Civilization and its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race (Lexington Books, 2003). About the exhibition >
Deborah Willis Named among the 100 Most Important People in Photography by American Photography Magazine, Dr. Deborah Willis and is Chair and Professor of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she also has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies. A 2005 Guggenheim and Fletcher Fellow, 2000 MacArthur Fellow, 1996 Recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award and artist, she is one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Some of her notable projects include Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers—1840 to the Present, A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois and African American Portraits of Progress, The Black Female Body in Photography, and Let Your Motto be Resistance. Her most recent works are Posing Beauty—African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, Michelle Obama, The First Lady in Photographs, and Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot" (editor). Michelle Obama, The First Lady in Photographs garnered Dr. Willis a 2010 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/Autobiography, and she is the 2010 recipient of The Society for Photographic Education's National Conference's Honored Educator Award. About the exhibition > African Art: Beyond the Modernist Lens About the exhibition > From Classic to Romantic: British Art in an Age of Transition About the exhibition > Ellen Bayard Weedon Lectures in the Arts of Asia Lecturers Michael Meister Michael W. Meister specializes in the study of the art of India and Pakistan. He is Curator of Indian Art, Asian section, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Art and Archaeology; he is also Curator of the South Asia Art Archive at the same university. Meister’s research and writing focus on temple architecture, the morphology of meaning, and other aspects of the art of the Indian sub-continent. He has carried out excavations at Salt Range temple sites in Pakistan; surveyed mountain temples in the Himalayas; and done ethnographic cross-disciplinary research on pilgrimage temples in Rajasthan. About the lecture >
Kathleen Ryor Kathleen M. Ryor earned her B.A. at the University of Virginia and her M.A. and Ph.D. at New York University. Her primary area of research is Chinese painting of the late Ming dynasty. Her other research and teaching interests include interactions between different modes of representation in the Ming and Qing periods, Chinese gardens, and 20th-century Chinese art and Japanese prints. About the lecture > About the Lunchtime Talk >
Michelle Kisliuk Michelle Kisliuk earned a doctorate in Performance Studies from New York University. Integrating theory and practice, she specializes in a performance approach to ethnographic writing and research, and in an ethnographic and critical approach to performing. Since 1986 she has researched the music, dance, daily life, socioesthetics, and cultural politics of forest people (BaAka) in the Central African Republic, and has also written about urban music/dance and modernity in Bangui (the capital city). She has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and a Laura Boulton Senior Fellow in Ethnomusicology. Her book, Seize the Dance! BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of Performance (Oxford University Press) won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award. About the Lunchtime Talk >
About the Lunchtime Talk > About the special lecture > Benjamin Ray Benjamin Ray earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago. For the past thirty years, his teaching and research has focused on the indigenous religions of Sub-Saharan Africa as well as African forms of Christianity. He teaches courses on African Art and Religion, Yoruba Religion, and Death and the Afterlife. His publications include African Regions: Symbol, Ritual and Community, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2000, and Myth, Ritual and Kingship in Buganda, from Oxford University Press. About the tour >
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Tyler Jo Smith Tyler Jo Smith is Assistant Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in the McIntire Department of Art at U.Va. A specialist in the visual and material cultures of the ancient Greco-Roman world, her book entitled Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art is about to be published by Oxford University Press. Her particular areas of research and interest include Greek pottery, ancient religion and performance, and the history of collecting. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Turkey, Sicily, and England, and has been a faculty lecturer for Cavalier Travels programs in Greece and Turkey. About the tour > Jack Trammell’s most recent of twenty-one books include, Down on the Chickahominy, a nominee for the 2010 Library of Virginia non-fiction award, and the 2010 Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Silas House Volume II, published by Shepherd University and in which Trammell’s work appears alongside those of Jesse Stuart and others. Trammell has won numerous literary awards, ranging from the History Book Club Essay Contest to recognition by the all of Virginia’s major writing organizations. He has published hundreds of stories, articles and poems and for seven years wrote a regular column for the Washington Times. He teaches at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, and lives on a farm near Charlottesville in Louisa County. About Writer's Eye >
Charlotte Matthews is the author of two full length collection of poetry, Still Enough to Be Dreaming and Green Stars. She is also the author of two chapbooks, A Kind of Devotion (Palanquin Press, 2004) and Biding Time (Half Moon Bay Press, 2005). Her work has recently appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Borderlands, Ecotone, Tar River Poetry, and storySouth. Most recently she received the 2007 New Writers Award from the Fellowship for Southern Writers. She is a graduate of The University of Virginia and The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She teaches in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary and Professional Studies at the University of Virginia. About Writer's Eye >
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