Even as we are all feeling the post-Thanksgiving, end-of-semester fatigue, I want to remind you about a fabulous Art Education guest lecture this evening. Dynamic scholar and Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Educa...tion of the University of Toronto Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández will present a talk titled, “Wither the Artist?: Educating through the Logic of Cultural Production” tonight starting at 5:30pm in Art 223. Please see the attached flyer for a bit more information. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I hope that you will have an opportunity to attend. It promises to be a great talk.See More
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- Here's another art history symposium opportunity for undergraduates -- in California. See attached for the details.
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- Congratulations and best wishes go out to Art Education PhD alumna Susan Whiteland -- currently Assistant Professor at Arkansas State University -- on her most recent publication, "Intergenerational Visual Art Programs at Shared Sites: A St...ep toward Sustainability," which appears in the most recent issue of Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. See http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PcVHrsRznMeQA8dzSZsI/full#.Up30W02A0cI.See More
- Even while the TAEA was going on in Dallas, Art Education Professor Terry Barrett served as keynote speaker, “Toward Personal Interpretations of Works of Art,” at the Arizona Art Education Association, Sedona, November 23, and presented a related lecture at the University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, November 22, 2013. Congratulations Terry. Lucky Arizona!
- Did you know that Dr. Adetty Pérez de Miles has been nominated for North American representative for the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA)? While only InSEA members can vote, you can find out more about the election, and Dr. Pérez de Miles’s platform, here: http://www.insea.org/council/elections.
- Congratulations to Art Education faculty Laura Evans and Adetty Pérez de Miles. Both of their work is included in the most recent issue of Visual Culture & Gender, which is accessible at http://vcg.emitto.net/. See Laura Evans’s article, “T...rigger Finger: A Narrative Exploration of Women and Trophy Hunting in David Chancellor’s Safari Club and Adetty Pérez de Miles’s review essay, “An Oppositional Reading of Patriarchy, Love, Neo-Colonialism, and Anthropology in Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s film “How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman.” Congratulations go out to both of them.See More
- Call For Papers: 2014 Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium,
A one-day graduate symposium hosted by the Graduate Union of Students of Art, University of Toronto.
Art Work: Art’s Productive Economies
Given the multivalent definitions “work” denotes (including, but not limited to: the product of labour; action involving effort directed toward a definite end; and the operation of a force in produci...ng physical change), it is possible to understand the work of art – and no less, the art of work – through a wide range of critical perspectives.
Whether in the process of making art, the products of art, and / or the overarching labour networks in which art exists, how can one think of work and art together in ways that do not unduly privilege one term over the other? How should one situate art as work within both creative and economic labour markets? And how – if at all – can one conceive work as art in light of the conditions those markets entail?
That is, how does work negotiate the material dimensions of labour, production, and capital vis-à-vis the aesthetic dimensions of practice, process, and products? Indeed, such questions only begin to scratch the surface of this relation that lays at the heart of aesthetic production. To these questions, we invite proposals for scholarly papers spanning all relevant fields and time periods that touch upon the relation between art and work within the aesthetic, social, political, and cultural economies that encompass these terms.
Sample topics include, but are not limited to:
- Representations of work and/or workers throughout visual culture.
- The physical labour of artmaking processes and practices
- Distributions of labour within artist studios (e.g. those of
Rembrandt, Warhol, etc.)
- Disjunctions and correlations between conceptual and material labour
in artmaking and/or art institutions
- The practice of art history / curating / etc. as forms of “the work
of art”
- The aesthetic consequences of immaterial labour / post-Fordism /
economic globalization / etc.
- The unseen labour practices that support art institutions (e.g.
museum employees, art handlers, interns, etc.)
- The figure of the artist as worker
- The functional “work” of art objects.
Current graduate students may submit an abstract of 200-300 words (outlining 15-20 minute presentations) and a brief CV to gustasymposium@gmail.com by January 1, 2014.
Please see gustasymposium.wordpress.com for more information.See More - Call for Papers: Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference 2014
Proposals are invited for sessions at the Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, which will convene in Saint Louis, April 3-5, 2014 at the Saint Louis Art Museum.... In addition to five thematic sessions, there are seventeen “open” sessions addressing broad periods and general topics. Deadline for submissions is Monday, December 16. The conference schedule and complete information for the call for papers is available on the society’s website: http://www.mahsonline.org/call_for_papers_2014.aspSee More - Here's a great call for papers for undergraduates, and not too, too far from Denton.
- It is TAEA time. Come drop by to see me at the UNT booth at the Hilton Anatole. Congratulations go out to the UNT presenters at this conference -- current students and alums alike: Angelica Bigsby, Dorie Mishael, Tori Wheelis, Sandra Hernandez, Mary Jordan, Kristi Rucker, Cala Coats, Tim Garth, Kristina Hilliard, Liz Langdon, David Preusse, Emily Stewart Hood, Sarah Travis, Amanda Batson, Allison Davidson, Maria Leake, Rebecca Schaefer, Dawn Stienecker, Deborah Yatko, and Holly York that I know of! I know there are more. Please share, update, and support each other at the conference.
- The Art Education program in the College of Visual Arts and Design is hosting a public lecture by Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, a dynamic scholar and Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of T...oronto. His talk is titled, “Wither the Artist?: Educating through the Logic of Cultural Production.” It will take place December 3 from 5:30-6:45pm in the Art Building room 223.
There is an announcement flier attached here. Would you please circulate it among your students and colleagues? The topic will be of interest to many in CVAD, other colleges and departments across campus, and in the community.
Below is more information about the speaker:
Professor Gaztambide-Fernández is a cultural sociologist with a particular focus on schools, processes of identification, inequality, and symbolic boundaries. He teaches courses in curriculum and cultural theory, the arts in education, and political solidarity. His book, The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School (Harvard University Press, 2009) is based on a two-year ethnographic study of the lives of students at an elite boarding school in the United States. Gaztambide-Fernández is co-editor of the edited collections Cultural Studies and Education: Perspective on Theory, Methodology, and Practice (with Heather Harding and Tere Sordé-Martí, 2003, Harvard Education Press), Curriculum Work as a Public Moral Enterprise (with James Sears, 2004, Rowman and Littlefield), and most recently, Educating Elites: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage (with Adam Howard, 2010, Rowman & Littlefield). His current research focuses on the experiences of young artists attending specialized arts program in public high schools in cities across Canada and the United States. He is also the Principal Investigator of Proyecto Latin@, a participatory action research project with Latin@ youth in Toronto. His theoretical work focuses on the relationship between creativity and solidarity. He is particularly interested in the creative possibilities that arise from the social and cultural dynamics of urban centers as a way to think through social justice projects. The movements and encounters that define urban spaces generate particular cultural dynamics with the potential to reshape human relations. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Rubén now lives in Toronto with his wife Bonnie, and his children, Mercedes Irene and Alejandro Tomás.See More - Here's another CFP for an Art History graduate student conference:
University of Missouri- Columbia
Art History and Archaeology Graduate Student Association Symposium
"It’s a Small World After All"
Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8, 2014
Keynote: Friday evening, Dr. Tyler Jo Smith (Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia...)
The Art History and Archaeology Graduate Student Association at the University of Missouri invite submissions from graduate students that take an object-based approach to the importance of “smallness” in the realms of art and material culture.
Often, “small” objects and works of art have been overlooked or marginalized by scholars, being categorized as “minor” or “decorative” arts consequently being relegated to the realm of the insignificant. Yet, these small items were often produced with delicate and careful artistic skill, were used and treasured by their original owners, were ornamented with or created from expensive luxury materials, and above all, were culturally significant. Likewise, smaller elements of larger artworks, such as painting and architecture, are often overlooked in light of the larger and more overpowering whole. However, such smaller elements often hold important clues for understanding social status, cultural context, and symbolism. This symposium would like to turn the tables and focus on what makes small items interesting and significant. The material under consideration should deal with issues of smallness and may be literally, conceptually, or in name only “small.”
Possible subjects that investigate the theme of smallness may include, but are not limited to:
• Miniatures and or toys
• Smaller components of a larger work.
• Small archaeological finds including coins, ivories, metals, bone, or pottery.
• Text and inscriptions.
• Painting.
• Jewelry.
• Table wares.
• Luxury items.
• Architecture and Architectural sculpture.
• Small-scale topography, town planning, trade and production.
Topics from any historical period of Art History, Archaeology, Material Culture, and related fields will be considered for 20-minute presentations. All presentations will be held on Saturday, March 8.
Submissions should be submitted electronically to MU.AHAGrads@gmail.com no later than January 10, 2014. Proposals should consist of a 250-500 word abstract and a CV.See More - The History of Art Graduate Students at the University of Kansas are pleased to announce our 2014 Art History Graduate Symposium. The theme, “Materiality and Memory in Visual Art and Culture,” is detailed in the attached document. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Alexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University.
- Here's a possible CFP for graduate students across the arts:
RAW: Research, Art, Writing
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium
With Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Mary Larson of OSU
Richardson, Texas...
March 21-22, 2014
The Arts & Humanities Graduate Student Association of The University of Texas at Dallas invites you to participate in RAW: Research, Art, Writing -- an interdisciplinary graduate student symposium. Organized by and for graduate students in the arts and humanities, the sixth annual RAW symposium continues to advance the goal of opening up an interdisciplinary conversation.
Like our unique interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities graduate program, The RAW conference wishes to promote a common discourse between digital and traditional humanities, which have been conventionally separated by superficial methodological practices. At this year's RAW, we invite presentations that utilize traditional methods and their digital counterparts. RAW seeks to encourage the exhibition of a cross-section of the technological approaches being used, to reveal the existent networks across the practice, and to display the humanities for what they are and not what we think they are.
We invite proposals for 15 minute individual presentations of papers, art, film, photography, sculpture, games, etc., as well as submissions of full panels (which will include three to four individual presentations). There are no limitations on field, genre, methodology, or discipline; we welcome presentations from across the range of arts and humanities -- including, but not limited to, philosophy, history, emerging media, literature, language, performances, works of art, etc. -- and we especially encourage projects that forge “interdisciplinarity.” Examples of possible project or presentation submissions include:
Academic Submissions
• excerpt of an M.A. paper or thesis
• excerpt of a seminar paper
• excerpt from a dissertation
Creative Submissions
• animation, video, or film projects
• excerpt from a novel, play or short story
• M.F.A. final project
• selection of poetry
• dance or other performance piece
• art work (paintings, ceramics, drawings, etc.)
• games
Proposals are due by December 6, 2013. All proposals must include the following:
• A complete mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and affiliation of participant
• A vita of no more than one page
• For academic submissions: an abstract of no more than 250 words for the proposed presentation that includes 3 to 5 keywords
• For creative pieces: please include medium, space requirements for the work/presentation, and an artist statement
Panel proposals must include the above information for each participant.
Send submission questions to utd.gsa@gmail.com Registration information will follow. For additional information see www.utdgsa.comSee More - Please join us as students from Professor Mickey Abel’s seminar “The City of Paris: The Ancient and Medieval World” share their research in a series of presentations and digital exhibitions. http://disco.unt.edu/
- Dr. Nada Shabout will be speaking as part of CentralTrak's Lecture series tomorrow. See the link for details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/229940030514722/ - Congratulations go out to Art History MA student Shana Thompson. She will be presenting a paper titled “Land, Water, Woman: Coudrette's Mélusine as a Symbol of Regional Identity in Late Medieval Poitou,” at the 2014 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies in Chicago and has received a Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant to defray her travel expenses. Congratulations Shana!
- Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Education
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
The Art Department of Eastern Michigan University is seeking
applicants for a tenure-track assistant professor position of Visual...
Arts Education. Ph.D/Ed.D in art education (preferred), or a
combination of MFA and MA in Art Education required. ABD considered.
At least three years K-12 teaching experience in art required,
university teaching experience preferred.
Responsibilities include teaching courses to Visual Arts Education
undergraduate and graduate students, teaching and/or coordination of
visual arts integration methods classes for elementary education
majors, advising Visual Arts Education undergraduate students,
overseeing MA theses/projects/exams, and performing departmental and
university service.
The ideal candidate will have a solid foundation in contemporary art
education theories and practices, studio art, and art history. Strong
knowledge and experience in technology applications and online
teaching in art education, research methods, and program development
and expansion are preferred. The candidate will be expected to
maintain personal scholarship and connections with local schools,
museums, and professional associations and be able to work collegially
in a team environment.
Applications for this position are accepted though the Eastern
Michigan University Online Hiring System (http://www.emujobs.com/) by
Friday, January 10, 2014. The following documents in PDF format must
be attached when submitting the application:
Formal letter of application
Curriculum Vitae
Statement of teaching philosophy and research agenda
Contact information of three references (names, phone numbers, and emails)
Additionally, mail a CD and/or DVD (post marked no later than January
10, 2014) with 6 to 10 examples of personal or student work, a
corresponding list of artworks that includes titles, media,
dimensions, and dates, and PDFs of the documents listed above to:
Chair, Visual Arts Education Search Committee, 114 Ford Hall, Eastern
Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197. Application materials will
not be returned.
EMU enrolls approximately 23,000 students and offers an outstanding
benefits package and a collegial work environment. EMU's distinct mix
of comprehensive academic resources, strong community initiatives,
focus on Education First, and nationally-recognized undergraduate and
graduate student research achievements set it apart. The EMU campus is
located in the Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor community, five miles from downtown
Ann Arbor and 35 miles west of Detroit, MI and Windsor, Ontario.
The Art Department has undergraduate programs in studio art/graphic
design, visual arts education, and art history, as well as
corresponding graduate degree programs in studio art/graphic design
and visual arts education. Currently the undergraduate programs have
around 375 student majors including about 60 in Visual Arts Education.
The graduate programs have around 25 students. EMU's educator
preparation programs are NCATE accredited. For information about EMU
Visual Arts Education program, go to
http://art.emich.edu/areas/art-education. Contact the Visual Arts
Education Search Committee Chair, Dr. Guey-Meei Yang
(gyang@emich.edu), for inquiry about the position.See More