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January 21
Mark Hain on "The Eight"
Assistant Curator Hain will discuss the group of
Academy-trained artists who bridged compelling 19th-century urban realism
and the vital currents of 20th-century avant-garde art.
January 28
Michael Leja on Mark Rothko
Professor and Sewell C. Biggs Chair in American
Art History Michael Leja will explore the meanings Rothko’s paintings
acquired in the 1950s and early 1960s by analyzing the dialogues between
the artist and the art critics who reviewed his work.
February 4
Nancy G. Heller on Georgia O'Keeffe
University of the Arts art history professor Nancy
Heller will examine Georgia O’ Keeffe’s relationship to the
principal currents in American art between the World Wars.
February 11
Artist lecture - Verna Hart
Hart, a visual artist mentored by Romare Bearden,
will discuss how jazz served as a catalyst to inspire experimentation
with improvisation, form and technique. Hart will discuss rhythm, color,
texture, line, form, space, composition and tone as common elements essential
in art and jazz creations.
February 18
Peter Conn on Edward Hopper
Conn, the Andrea Mitchell Professor of English
and Deputy Provost at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore Hopper’s
city scenes and stories, which witness the most far-reaching changes in
the nation’s history.
February 25
Dr. Sarah K. Rich, Radicals and Conservatives:
1945-Present
Focusing on the artists included in the Academy’s
exhibition Radicals and Conservatives:
1945-Present, Dr. Rich, assistant professor
of art history at Pennsylvania State University, will discuss how it is
now historically possible to decide upon the political motivations and
effects of abstract art in the Cold War Era.
March 3
Gail Vartanian, Artistic Director of Contempra
Dance
Vartanian will discuss “Beyond Words,”
her dance interpretation of four paintings. A slide lecture focused on
her inspirations in the creation of the work will be followed by a video
of the dance.
March 10
Artist talk - Kimberly Camp, Executive Director
at the Barnes Foundation
In conjunction with African-American Artists Celebrate Community, Camp
will discuss how her career and travels around the world have influenced
her artwork and how issues of race create overarching influences in both
areas.
March 17
Bonnie Barret Stretch, Senior Contributing Editor
for ARTnews
Stretch will discuss the saga of the world’s
art center shift from Paris to New York, a tale of social and generational
ebb and flow, the power of the art market, and the cultural kinship between
America and Europe.
March 24
Michelle Reinwill on Florine Stettheimer
Reinwill, a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at the
University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the paradoxical, and often subtly
moralizing art of Florine Stettheimer. With only one formal exhibition
during her lifetime, the New York socialite has finally received recognition
as one of the first women of American Modernism.
March 31
Dr. Kevin Richards, Pennsylvania Academy art history
professor
Negotiating between the works of critics and historians
such as Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Jurgen Habermas, Jean-Francois
Lyotard and T.J. Clark, Dr. Richards will situate the debates around modernism
and postmodernism within their broader intellectual and artistic contexts.
April 7
Dr. Sarah Whitaker Peters on
Georgia O’Keeffe
Dr. Peters, an O’Keeffe scholar, will offer
some alternative ways to look at the familiar art of Georgia O’Keeffe.
Art had no gender to O’Keeffe, yet she became an enduring icon of
what it meant to be a woman artist in the early 20th century.
April 14
J. Susan Isaacs, Adjunct Curator at the Delaware Center for Contemporary
Arts (DCCA)
Academy alumna Isaacs will address different aspects
of the being a curator and the exhibitions and opportunities for artists
at the DCCA.
April 21
Screening - American Poetry Center's documentary
on Arthur B. Carles
In support of National Poetry Month, the Academy
presents the American Poetry Center's 45-minute documentary about the
charismatic Philadelphia artist, Arthur B. Carles, an undeniable force
in the development of the American modernist movement. Poems by Carles’s
contemporaries—Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams
and Gertrude Stein—are featured.
April 28
Hilton Brown on materials and techniques of post-WWII
American painters
Brown, the Harriet T. Baily Professor of Art, Art
Conservation, Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Delaware,
will present a slide lecture focusing on some of the new materials, as
well as a revival of earlier materials and techniques, that American painters
have used since the World War II. Among the painters to be discussed will
be Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Robert Rauschenberg,
Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichenstein, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin,
Ellsworth Kelly, and Ed Ruscha.
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