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About curators & lecturers, Spring 2011 From Classic to Romantic | Southern Views/Southern Photographers | Society Portraits From Classic to Romantic: British Art in an Age of Transition About the exhibition > Southern Views/Southern Photographers Pamela Pecchio Pamela Pecchio received her MFA in photography from the Yale University School of Art in 2001, where she was awarded the Richard Dixon Welling Prize for Excellence. She received a BFA in photography from the University of Georgia in 1998. Pecchio has taught photography at the Universities of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Asheville, Duke University, and currently teaches at the University of Virginia. Pecchio has shown across the United States, as well as internationally in China, Spain, Italy and Holland. Her work is included in collections at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Yale University Art Museum, and has been featured in ArtNews, Details, Camera Arts, and V magazines. About the exhibition > Society Portraits: Andy Warhol's Photographic Legacy About the exhibition > Excavating New Ground, American Art in the 1970s
University of Virginia Art Museum curator Andrea Douglas has been selected to participate in the Getty Leadership Institute's Museum Leadership Institute at Claremont (Calif.) College. The program will be held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles from July 10 through 29, 2010. Douglas will join more than 30 museum leaders from around the world to explore the increasingly complex issues that face senior museum executives and their institutions, including new technologies and shifts in philanthropic matters. Participants are selected based on their ability to influence policy and effect change at their institutions. They represent various roles in the museum field, including directors, curators, educators and those involved in fundraising and finance. The eclectic group is selected to "create a diversity of perspectives and experience for group discussions," according to the announcement of this year's participants. The group includes senior leaders from prominent museums, institutions and university museums, including the National Museums of Science and Industry in London; National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institute's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington; Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; California Science Museum; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; the Queensland Museum in Australia; Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; and University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks. Museum leaders from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Scotland, Portugal and China will attend the institute. About the exhibition > New Images, New Techniques: Abstraction in British Screenprints circa 1970 About the exhibition > Ellen Bayard Weedon Lectures in the Arts of Asia Julia Curtis Julia Curtis is an independent scholar who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. She lectures and writes on 17th century Chinese porcelains and iconography. For over 20 years, she has served as North American Representative of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London. Curtis received a B.A. from Vassar, and an M.A. and PhD. from Bryn Mawr College in history, and taught at University of Massachusetts Amherst; Old Dominion University; and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York. She has organized two exhibitions of Chinese porcelain produced during two periods of the 17th century, authored two exhibition catalogues, and co-authored the third for an exhibition held at the University of Virginia Art Museum, Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain, 1644-1661. About the lecture >
Alicia Volk Alicia Volk received her PhD at Yale University and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants from such organizations as the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Dr. Volk's publications span a range of mediums and issues in modern and contemporary Japanese art from the nineteenth century to the present. Her award-winning In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorô and Japanese Modern Art, from which this lecture is drawn, places Japanese modern art in the framework of global modernism. About the lecture > About the lecture > Jerome McGann Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, and is a noted expert on Romantic and Victorian literature and the history and theory of texts. He has written extensively on Byron, William Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and printmaking as an art form. He has received numerous fellowships, grants and awards for his achievements, including the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Byron Society of America, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America, and the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2002, he received the James Russell Lowell Award from the Modern Language Association naming his book, Radiant Textuality, as the Most Distinguished Scholarly Book of the Year. A pioneer in using computer technology to edit texts, McGann was the recipient of the first Richard W. Lyman Award for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, awarded by the National Humanities Center, for his contributions to the creation of digital archives of the works of Rosetti and Blake. About the Lunchtime Talk >
Margo Smith Margo Smith has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from U.Va. and conducted fieldwork in central Australia from 1991-1993. She co-edited Art From the Land: Dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art with Dr. Howard Morphy published by the University of Virginia in 1999. From 2003-2005 Dr. Smith taught Exploring Indigenous Australia, a unique course involving four weeks of intensive study and travel in Australia. About the Lunchtime Talk > Mary Jo Ayers Mary Jo Ayers has been a docent with the University of Virginia Art Museum since 1976, and an Adjunct Curator of Native American Art since the early 1980s. During this time, she has curated several major exhibitions of Native American art for the Museum, given numerous talks on the Astor Collection, and supervised the conservation and growth of the Museum's Native American holdings. Recently, she collaborated with scholar Diane Boucher on an article about the Astor collection that appeared in the fall issue of American Indian Art. About the Saturday Special Tours >
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