Events
Tonight! Charlene Teters Talk
TUES., October 18 at 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Complex, 1B20 Auditorium*
Fall 2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Charlene Teters is a member of the Spokane Nation and is well known for her work as an artist, writer, educator, and activist. She earned an Associate of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in 1986, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Santa Fe in 1988, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIHC) in 1994. After establishing the Racial Justice Office at the National Congress of American Indians, she returned to IAIA in 1992 as Director of Alumni Relations and Student Retention and later was appointed as a full-time faculty member in the Studio Arts Department
During her professional career, Charlene has exhibited internationally and maintained an active presence lecturing and delivering keynote speeches and commencement addresses across the United States. She rose to national prominence as a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she led protests against the degrading depictions of American Indian caricatures used as sports team’s mascots and was the subject of the award-winning documentary, In Whose Honor, by Jay Rosenstein.
*The fall semester visiting artist lectures are recorded and available for viewing in the VRC's archive in January. We hope that you will join us for the in-person lecture and conversation.
Next up: Trevor Paglen
TUES., November 1 at 6:30 PM
**THIS IS A LIVE VIRTUAL LECTURE**
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, artificial intelligence, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality.
Peter Sturman: Visiting Art History Scholar Lecture
Tomorrow!
Wednesday, October 19 at 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Norlin Library, Center for British & Irish Studies (room M549)
1157 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309
"Exile and Redemption—The Strange Case of the Poetic Ideas Scroll"
About the lecture: The Poetic Ideas scroll has long posed a mystery. Consisting of two unsigned paintings of a riverside landscape and twin wintry trees, early colophon writers attributed the compositions to two scions of famous families: Sima Huai, descendant of the statesman Sima Guang (1019-1086), and Mi Youren (1074-1151), whose father was the well-known calligrapher and connoisseur Mi Fu (1052-1107). But who painted which? And what are we to make of the choice of poetic lines by the famous Tang dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770) that served as the impetus for the two images? In this presentation, Peter Sturman demonstrates how the paintings were part of a carefully constructed program integrating text and images to comment on the fate of family legacies in the fraught world of late Northern Song politics. Through the Poetic Ideas scroll, we gain an important glimpse into the sophisticated world of early literati painting in China.
About: Peter Sturman (Yale University PhD, 1989) is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in the study of Chinese painting, calligraphy, and text-image relationships during the medieval and early modern periods. His primary focus is on literati culture of the Northern Song and its immediate aftermath, though he has also published on landscape painting of the tenth and eleventh centuries, court art of the late Northern Song, loyalist art of the Song-Yuan transition, and painting and calligraphy of the seventeenth century. Book-length publications include Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China (1997) and The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th-Century China (2012). His current projects are a book on Northern Song literati painting titled Form and Shadow: Painting and the Literary Mind in Song-Dynasty China, and a study of the calligraphy of the Ming-dynasty polymath Xu Wei (1520-1593).
