UVa Art Museum

Lectures and events

Ellen Bayard Weedon Lectures in the Arts of Asia
With the generous support of the Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation, the Museum presents four annual lectures on South and East Asian art each year. Please join us for this year's series, all of which are held in the Museum at 5:30 pm.

September 27, 2007, 5:30 pm
Poet Prince and River Nymph: The Luoshenfu Scrolls in London
and Peking
by Roderick Whitﬁeld, specialist in Central Asian, Chinese, Korean,
and Buddhist art and Emeritus Professor, SOAS, University of London

November 29, 2007, 5:30 pm, Campbell Hall 160
Gods of the Mt: Hindu Art of Viet Nam
by Nancy Tingley, independent scholar
Parking lot A10 is reversed for this event. It has approximately 35 spaces and the Museum will have attendants distributing parking passes until 6 pm.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 5:30 in the Museum
Across Time & Space in Asia: The Arthur M. Sackler Collections
by Trudy Kawami, Director of Research, The Arthur M. Sackler
Foundation

April 3, 2008, 5:30 pm
Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master—Pioneer of Modern Japanese Design
by Donald Wood, senior curator of Asian art at the Birmingham Museum of Art

		Gladys S. Blizzard Lecture This annual lecture, named in honor of a beloved Museum educator and author of the “Come Look With Me” series of children's books about art, brings a prominent member of the art world to Charlottesville.

			Gallery Talk by William Christenberry Friday, October 26, 2007, 4:30 pm In the Museum

		Lunchtime Gallery Talks Join us for these informal presentations on aspects of the special exhibition Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. All are held at 1 pm (unless otherwise noted) in the Museum.

			January 25, 2008 Angela Mack, deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina February 13, 2008 Maurie McInnis, guest curator and associate professor, McIntire Department of Art March 12, 2008 Carmenita Higginbotham, assistant professor, McIntire Department of Art March 18, 2008 Andrea Douglas, curator of collections and exhibitions April 9, 2008 Christopher Oliver, M.A. candidate, art history April 16, 2008 Catherine Malone, Ph.D. candidate, art history May 15, 2008 Aiesha Halstead, Coordinator, Exhibitions, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts June 8, 2008, 2 pm Collecting Himalayan Art by Elena Pakhutova, Luzak-Linder Fellow June 28, 2008, 2 pm On John Toole: Itinerant Painter by Christopher Oliver , M.A. candidate, art history In the Museum

		Forming American Identities Our Southern Legacy Colloquia

		Manifest Destiny and American Empire Natsu Taylor Saito, professor of law at Georgia State University, explores how we reconcile the principles of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law with our fundamental American values.

			Friday, October 5, 2007, 5:30 pm In the Museum Co-sponsored by The Bridge and The Living Education Center for Ecology and The Arts

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		Cinematic Representations Carmenita Higginbotham, assistant professor, McIntire Department of Art, and Jane Gaines, professor, Department of English, Duke University, address issues zraised in the ﬁlms Birth of a Nation and Within Our Gates.

			Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 5:30 pm In the Museum

		The Dresser Trunk Project William Williams, associate professor, School of Architecture and exhibition curator; Craig Barton, chair, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, U.Va.; and Lisa Henry Benham, assistant professor, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Utah—all of whom have created trunks—discuss the issues addressed in The Dresser Trunk Project.

			Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 5:30 In the Museum

		Imagining Hale County U.Va. scholars Grace Hale, Associate Professor, Corcoran Department of History, Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, and graduate student Scott L. Matthews discuss the images and heritage of Hale County, Alabama, a region so central to the work of William Christenberry.

			Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 5:30 pm In the Museum Sponsored by the University of Virginia Council for the Arts

		Southern Music, American Music UVa music professors Richard Will and Melvin Butler, and Ph.D. candidate Michael Bishop examine Southern heritages in American musics including country, gospel, and rock.

			Friday, January, 25, 2008, 4 pm In the Museum Final Friday Reception follows, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

		Writing the South Area writers read and discuss selections by Southern writers.

			Friday, March 28, 2008, 4 pm In the Museum Final Friday Reception follows, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Symposium

The Goddesses Return: A Symposium on the Repatriation to Italy
of Acrolithic Sculptures from Morgantina

Saturday, February 2, 2008
Auditorium of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library

Morning Session: William A. P. Childs, Princeton University, presiding

10:00

Welcome and Remarks

Elizabeth Turner, Interim Director, University of Virginia Art

Beatrice Basile, Soprintendente dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali della Provincia Regionale di Enna

Carmela Bonanno, Sezione archeologica, Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali della Provincia Regionale di Enna

10:30

Malcolm Bell, III, University of Virginia, The Acroliths from Morgantina

11:00

Carla Antonaccio, Duke University, Cults and Sanctuaries at Archaic Morgantina

11:30

Clemente Marconi, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, The Art Historical Significance of the Acroliths from Morgantina

12:00

John Herrmann, Jr., Curator Emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Marble from Thassos: Exportation and Sculpture from Archaic and Classical Times

Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 pm

Afternoon Session: 2:00 - 4:00 pm: Round table discussion on museums and antiquities

Magnus Fiskesjö, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Kimerly Rorschach, Director, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University

Susan Taylor, Director, The Art Museum, Princeton University

Moderator: Malcolm Bell, III, University of Virginia

The afternoon session will be followed by a reception at the University of Virginia Art Museum.

The organizers of the symposium are grateful to David Summers for his reconstruction drawing of the acrolithic sculptures.

Landscape of Slavery:
The Plantation in American Art Exhibition Symposium
Thursday and Friday, March 13-15, 2008

March 13, 5 pm
	Keynote Address by Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassatt Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University Landscape/Escape: Subjugation and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Images of African Americans

March 14, 9:30 am - 12 noon
Speakers:
	David Miller, Associate Professor, Department of English, Allegheny College 'That dark struggling, darkly vegetating swamp of human souls': Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Southern Landscape

	Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania Topsy at the Dressing Table: Visual Apocrypha and Uncle Tom's Cabin

March 14, 2 - 5:30 pm
Speakers:
	Kymberly Pinder, Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Mixing Myths: Multiracial Artists Talk Back to Slavery

	Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor, History of Art, Yale University Emancipation and the Plantation: Utopian and Dystopian Visions of the Sugar Economy in Jamaica, 1834-38

	Walter Johnson, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University Cotton's Dominion: Body, Landscape, and Ecology in the Mississippi Valley

March 15, 9 am - 12:30 pm
Speakers:
	Rebecca Ginsburg, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The View from the Woods: Plantation Landscapes from the Perspective of Fugitives

	Erskine Clarke, Professor of American Religious History, Columbia Theological Seminary The Landscape of the Lowcountry in Black and White: Overlapping and Competing Views and Memories

	Stephanie E. Yuhl, Associate Professor, History, College of the Holy Cross Landscapes of Longing: The Plantation Aesthetic in Sight and Sound