The University of St. Thomas

Generations and Traditions: How Design Moves Forward

The Third Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium will be held Nov. 15 and 16th

Date/Time

Thursday, November 15, 2012 - Friday, November 16, 2012

6:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Location

University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. Paul. The keynote lecture on November 15th will be held in O'Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium.
The Graduate Student Symposium on November 16th will be held in McNeely Hall, room 100.

Visit www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps for directions and parking information.
Both venues are handicap accessible.

Event Notes:

The reception following the lecture will be held in the Campus Way, second floor of the Anderson Student Center.

The MA Program in Art History is pleased to offer the 3rd annual Graduate Student Symposium, Generations and Traditions: How Design Moves Forward. Dr. Nancy Wicker , University of Mississippi, will present the keynote lecture, The  Transmission of Artistic Knowledge: Learning from Early Medieval Goldsmithing at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, November 15th in the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium. A reception will follow the lecture in the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center lobby gallery.

Morning Session
9:00-11:00 AM

Michele Krugh
George Mason University
New Traditions from Old: The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Conception of Skill
 
Christina M. Chakalova
Universität Wien
The Studio of Guido Reni
 
Jane Becker Nelson
Queen’s University
Big Bambu: A Wilderness Revival Atop the Met 

Museum Session: Generations and Connections to the Ancestor World in Asmat Art
11:15-11:45 AM 

Julie Risser, Director
Gretchen Burau and Abby Hall, Graduate Assistants
The American Museum of Asmat Art at the University of St. Thomas
The Gallery, Anderson Student Center 

Afternoon Session
1:00-3:30 PM

Natalie McMonagle
University of St. Thomas
Montepulciano to Minneapolis: Contemporary Byzantine Mosaic Icons for St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church 

Sara Oelrich Church 
University of St. Thomas
From the Sweet Tea Houses to an Artists Guild: Reinventing Tradition in Contemporary Tibetan Art
 
Jill Foltz
University of Texas at Dallas
Gesamtkunstwerk: Generations of Total Design in Architecture and Art

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Traditions and the History of Art
Annual Art History Department Speaker Series

Dr. Claudia Brown
Paintings and Maps of the Quing Dynasty
6:30 p.m., Monday, November 5

Dr. Nancy Wicker
The Transmissions of Artstic Knowledge: Learning from Early Medieval Goldsmithing
6:30 p.m., Thursday, November 15

Dr. Peter Schultz
Style, Continuity and the Hellenistic Baroque
6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21

Juliet Shen
The Lushootseed Typeface: Designing for a Critically Endangered Language
6 p.m., Monday, April 8


All lecture are held in the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium
Free and open to the public and handicap accessible