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Museum Staff
August 22, 2019
Fall 2019 Lecture Series
We have tons of events on the schedule this fall to further your understanding of the art on view. Here are all the lectures and gallery talks we have scheduled, in an easy-to-find format.
Faculty Perspectives: Akela Reason
Tuesday, August 27, 2 p.m.
Join Dr. Akela Reason, associate professor of history, for a special talk in the exhibition “Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies off the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection.”
Gallery Talk: “Before the War: Photographs of Syria by Peter Aaron”
Thursday, October 3, 2 p.m.
Join photographer Peter Aaron and William U. Eiland, museum director, for a gallery talk in the exhibition.
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Mary Lee Bendolph and the Quilters of Gee’s Bend
Friday, October 4, 3:30 p.m.
Join us for a screening of “While I Yet Live,” a short documentary that explores the captivating work of five acclaimed African American quilters from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, a rural community that played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement (2018, 14 min.). Following the screening, the museum will present a panel discussion focusing on the intersections of quilting, craft and African American culture featuring quiltmakers from Gee’s Bend. Panel moderated by Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Mary Lee Bendolph: Quilted Memories.”
Panel Discussion: “Before the War: Photographs of Syria by Peter Aaron”
Thursday, October 10, 5:30 p.m.
Moderated by James Reap, J.D., professor and graduate coordinator of the master of historic preservation program at UGA.
Faculty Perspectives: Elena Bianchelli
Tuesday, October 15, 2 p.m.
Elena Bianchelli, senior lecturer in the department of classics at UGA, will give a gallery talk in the exhibition “Storytelling in Renaissance Maiolica.”
Lecture: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Thursday, October 17, 5:30 p.m.
In his talk, “Cloudspotting For Beginners,” Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, takes you on an illustrated tour of the sky. He shows how to recognize many of the varied and beautiful cloud formations, including how various cloud types appear in works of art in the museum’s permanent collection. This enlightening and entertaining talk will help us discover that spending a few moments each day with your head in the clouds will help you keep your feet on the ground.
Holbrook Lecture: Alvia Wardlaw
Thursday, November 7, 5:30 p.m.
Alvia J. Wardlaw is a director/curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University and professor of art history. She has mentored countless students of color to pursue careers in the museum field ranging from curatorial to conservation positions. As curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for 22 years, Wardlaw organized over 75 exhibitions on African and African American art ranging from retrospectives of John Biggers and Kermit Oliver to the creative designs of the quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, to contemporary African art and the self- taught genius Thornton Dial. The first African American to receive the PhD in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, Wardlaw currently serves on the boards of the Orange Show Foundation and the Emancipation Park Conservancy in Houston and was recently appointed as honorary trustee by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She continues to serve on the Scholarly Advisory Committee of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and is a trustee of Wellesley College.
Faculty Perspectives: Jennifer Crenshaw
Tuesday, November 19, 2 p.m.
Join Jennifer Crenshaw, assistant professor of art and area chair for fabric design at UGA, for a special gallery talk in the exhibition “Mary Lee Bendolph: Quilted Memories.”