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2007-2008 Art History Faculty Lecture Series:
Dr. Margaret Lindauer, Associate Professor of Art History
“The Mayrau Mining Museum: Preserving the Past as a Liminal Space in a
Liminal Time”
Wednesday, March 5, 4-5 PM
Grace Street Theater, 934 W. Grace St., Richmond, VA
Information: (804) 828-2784
Free and open to the public
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The 2008 Maurice Bonds Lecture in Art History:
Lawrence Goedde, Professor of Art History and Chair, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
“Icy Landscapes and the Little Ice Age: Climate Change Shaping Art”
Friday, March 21, 2008, 6-7 PM
Grace E. Harris Hall, 1015 Floyd Ave., Richmond, VA
Free and open to the public
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Ixchel’s Thread: Maya Weavings From the Bowdler Collection
September 28 – December 9, 2007
VCUarts Anderson Gallery
907 ½ West Franklin Street
Keynote Lecture: “Weaving Lives and Destinies: Women’s Costumes from Chimaltenango, Guatemala”, Ann P. Rowe, Curator of Western Hemisphere Collections at The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. September 28, 4-5pm Grace Street Theater, 934 West Street.
Opening Reception, September 28, 5-7 pm, Anderson Gallery
This exhibition highlights selections from the Bowdler Textile Collection of Maya weavings from Guatemala. Presented to the VCUarts Anderson Gallery in 2000 by former Ambassador to Central America, William Bowdler and his wife, the exhibition emphasizes the millennia-old practice of woven arts in the region and the significant historic and contemporary role women have played in the production and the perpetuation of this tradition. Highlights of Ixchel’s Thread include approximately 35 elaborately woven and decorated huipils, the classic Maya women’s formal wear, as well as presentations and weavings demonstrations of contemporary garments reflecting adaptations of traditional Maya techniques and designs to a contemporary 21st century market. The work of VCU fashion design and merchandising students from a service-learning course in Fashion Line Development in Guatemala will also be featured along side a documentary of their experience that will be produced by VCU HDTV.
The exhibition is co-curated by Dr. James Farmer, Chair of the VCU Department of Art History, Linda T. Lee, Assistant Professor of the VCU Fashion Design and Merchandising Department, and Dr. McKenna Brown, Director of the VCU School of World Studies.
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Professor Charles Brownell Award
The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods (A.C.O.R.N.) announced the recipients of its special awards to be honored at the annual Golden Hammer Awards celebration on Thursday, October 4th, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at Orchard House School, 500 North Allen Avenue. Dr. Charles Brownell, III, Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, is recipient of the The Edmund A. Rennolds, Jr. Excellence in Architecture Award, honored for setting a high standard of academic achievement and educating the next generation of architectural historians.
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"Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art & Culture - The 2007 International Symposium on Islamic Art"
November 4-6, 2007 in Doha, Qatar
http://www.islamicartdoha.org/
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2007-2008 Art History Faculty Lecture Series:
Dr. Eric Garberson, Associate Professor of Art History
“Art + History: Founding Fallacies of a Discipline”
Wednesday, October 24, 4-5 PM
Grace Street Theater, 934 W. Grace St., Richmond, VA
Information: (804) 828-2784
Free and open to the public
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“Architectural History at VCU: The First Decade and a Half”,
Virginia Commonwealth University's Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Architectural History and the Decorative Arts
will take place on Friday, 16 November, 2007. The conference honors the memory of the late Bruce M. Koplin, the second chair of VCU’s Department of Art History. The conference papers, under the direction of Professor Charles Brownell, will address topics abroad and in Virginia, ranging from classical Virginia villas (Violet Bank in Colonial Heights; Sweet Briar House) and the flowering of Glasgow (Alexander “Greek”Thomson; the Blackie family and their ties to Mackintosh, Talwin Morris, and the Audsleys) through mail-order design (Gustav Stickley; Luminhaus) to Beaux-Arts Classicism for white and black patrons in Richmond and Washington, D.C. Cosponsors are the Virginia Historical Society; the Center for Palladian Studies in America; the Maymont Foundation; the Valentine Richmond History Center; the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; Historic Richmond Foundation; Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library; the Virginia Department of Historic Resources; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; the Library of Virginia; the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods; Richmond’s Lost Trades School; and the Virginia Center for Architecture. The conference will take place at the Virginia Historical Society, at 428 North Boulevard, Richmond, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free to students, $8.00 per person for members of sponsoring institutions, and $10.00 per person for others. A post-conference reception will be held at the restored Hancock-Wirt-Caskie House (1808-09) by courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey R. Bowles III. The charge for the reception is an additional $10.00. For reservations, please send checks, payable to VCU, to Conference, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 843046, 922 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23284-3046, by November 9. For hard copy of the brochure or other information, please call 804/828-2784.
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