Events and Speakers
Plato's Objections to Mimetic Art
Tuesday, May 5, 5:00 p.m.
Professor Bruce Aune, emeritus professor of Philosophy at UMASS Amherst.
Admirers of Plato are usually lovers of literary art, for Plato wrote dramatic dialogues rather then scholarly treatises and did so with rare literary skill. You would expect such a philosopher to place a high value on literary art, but Plato actually attacked it, along with other forms of mimêsis such as representational painting and sculpture, arguing that most of it should be banned from the ideal society that he described in the Republic. What objections did Plato have with mimêsis? Do those objections apply to the sort of art we value today? Are they well founded? These are the questions that I shall be discussing in my talk.
http://www.umass.edu/philosophy/faculty/aune.htm
The Tweed Museum of Art hosts numerous special events and artist lectures, including the Visual Lecture Series, a joint venture of the Department of Art + Design and the Tweed Museum of Art that brings artists and designers to UMD to speak about their work and experience. Events are held in the Boh 90 unless otherwise noted.
'08-'09 Visual Lecture Series
Allen D "Big Al" Carter / September 16, 2008
Tuesday, 6pm
Daniel Heyman / September 23, 2008
Tuesday, 6pm
Rick Griffith / October 7, 2008
Tuesday, 6pm
Robert Newman / November 11, 2008
Tuesday, 6pm
JulieL'Enfant / November 18, 2008
Tuesday, 6pm
Vance Gellert / March 10, 2009
Tuesday, 6pm
Danièle Wilmouth / March 24, 2009
Tuesday, 6pm
Cole Rogers / April 2, 2009
Thursday, 10am
Mike Tincher / April 2, 2009
Thursday, 2pm
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6pm
Big Al Carter’s appearance in the lecture series is in conjunction with an exhibition of his work, “Apart at the Seams,” which runs in the Tweed Museum of Art until November 2. An artist and art teacher in Washington, DC, Carter has produced housefuls of paintings, prints, and sculpture but has resisted the conventional corridors of success in order to go his own way. For as far back as he can remember, he had an overpowering urge to sketch. Even the threat of a smack from his mother’s hands was not enough to prevent him from compulsively rendering faces, fishing rods, and birds on her house’s blank white walls. He is dazzled by the puzzles of shadow and light that he sees on the faces of the people he passes on the street and is compelled to bring them to life on canvas. Carter’s paintings are larger than life in size and power and scope – an equal to the artist’s personality, to his reputation as a painter’s painter and to his career as a distinguished teacher and mentor to young artists.
 Daniel Heyman
Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 6pm
Philadelphia-based Daniel Heyman, painter and printmaker, has recently concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. For this work, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey, where he has talked face to face with more than 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of their American captors.
“Sometimes people think art should be pretty, and this isn’t very pretty,” Heyman admits.
Rick Griffith
Tuesday, October 7, 2087, 6pm
Robert Newman
Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 6pm
Robert Newman has recently been the design director of Fortune magazine and the creative director of Real Simple. Having worked in New York City since 1986, he also spent many years as design director to Inside, Vibe, Details, New York, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, and Guitar World. During a 10-year residency in Seattle, he worked as editor of The Rocket music magazine, design director of the alternative weekly Seattle Sun, and a principal in the design company Square Studio.
Newman is a graduate of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. After graduation he spent years in Ohio, Washington, DC, and Seattle as a political organizer, food co-op manager, newspaper editor, printer, pasteup artist, and typesetter. More recently, Newman is currently the consulting art director of Cottage Living in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a past president of the Society of Publication Designers and a frequent lecturer to schools, conferences, and art director groups.
Julie L'Enfant
Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 6pm
In conjunction with the exhibition “Draw to Live and Live to Draw: Prints and Illustrations by Wanda Gag” (at the Tweed Museum of Art from November 11, 2008 to March 22, 2009), the Tweed presents a lecture by Julie L’Enfant, author of The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America. An associate professor of art history at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul and recipient of Ph.D degrees from Louisiana State University and the University of Minnesota, L’Enfant has written and lectured nationally about American art and artists.
Vance Gellert
Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 6pm
Vance Gellert, Minneapolis, uses photography, participation, and interviews to construct photographic forays into other cultures. Gellert, also a pharmacologist, has researched how healing rituals within particular cultures work with their medicinal plants to affect healing. He studies individual societies’ cultural traditions to begin understanding their rituals, then creates a series of conceptual photographs to recreate the spiritual environment of the places he visits. His photographic journeys provide a foundation that is used to discuss the interface of traditional and scientific medicine and how art can help people to understand the esoteric issues of healing and wellness. Photography is used both as a “recorder of fact” and as an “an art form… infused with layers of meaning and nuance that give the ‘facts’ it records a human and emotional connection.”
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6pm
Danièle Wilmouth is an artist working primarily in experimental and documentary filmmaking. Her undergraduate studies focused on printmaking, video, installation, photography & performance at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She later earned an MFA in 16mm filmmaking at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1990 she began a six-year residency in Osaka, Japan, where she co-founded ‘Hairless Films’, an independent filmmaking collective. For more than 5 years she studied the Japanese contemporary dance form Butoh with several teachers including Yoshito Ohno, Maro Akaji,Byakko-sha, and her main instructor Katsura Kan. She performed with his dance troupe ‘The Saltimbanques’ in Japan for more than 3 years.
Her films have won awards and screened widely in festivals, galleries and on television around the world. She is currently a faculty member in the film and video departments of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College
Cole Rodgers
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10am
Cole Rogers is artistic director and master printer at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, a facility which aims to provide educational and professional services in the realm of printmaking. Rogers has been involved with more that 70 collaborations with professional artists from across the United States and around the world, and the works published by Highpoint Editions under Rogers have been featured at the International Print Center NY and have been acquired for the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Tweed Museum.
Rogers will be serving as one of two external jurors for the annual UMD Art + Design Student Show (opens April 11) at the Tweed Museum.
Mike Tincher
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 2pm
A Twin Cities graphic designer, Mike Tincher has held positions as Director of Design and Marketing with James Page Brewing, Senior Designer/Art Director with Greer & Associate, and Senior Designer/Art Director with Waters Molitor. In 1997 Mike started T DESIGN in order to explore more hands-on, design based work for a more select group of clients. As a smaller shop, T DESIGN has been able to do more work with entrepreneurial companies and non-profit organizations. Some recent T DESIGN projects include catalogs for Minneapolis Institute of Art, publication work for the Animal Humane Society, materials for the Art Shanty Projects on Medicine Lake and teaching Design Concepts at University of St Thomas in St Paul.
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