The Dana Engstrom DeLoach Friday Gallery Talk Program
Free with museum admission. Gallery talks begin at 12:00 p.m.
What’s New? Impulses and Innovation in ArtMay 9
Anne Butler Rice, Associate Museum Educator for Adult Audiences
Emerging Landscape Traditions in European Painting, 1500-1700May 23
Alexandra Onuf, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Hartford
Inside Out: The Architectural Story of the Wadsworth AtheneumJune 13
Eugene R. Gaddis, William G. DeLana Archivist and Curator of the Austin House
(Come prepared to walk around the outside of the museum! If it’s raining, we’ll look at interior spaces.)
Bare Walls, No Boundaries (special exhibition talk)June 27
Rehema Barber, Curatorial Associate, Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Andrew Wyeth: Twentieth-Century American RealistJuly 11
Erin Monroe, Curatorial Fellow, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Works on Paper
Landscapes Real and SurrealJuly 25
Nicholas Ruocco, Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education
The Body in Contemporary ArtAugust 8
Charlene Shang Miller, Associate Museum Educator for Docent Program and University Audiences
The Art of Spatial EngagementAugust 22
Anne Butler Rice, Associate Museum Educator for Adult Audiences
(Be prepared to go outside during this talk.)
Art In Focus
Drop in for a cool, 20-minute dive into one work of art during your lunch hour or on the second Saturday of the sweltering summer months. This program is free with museum admission. Meet in the Helen and Harry Gray Court at the Main Street entrance to the museum.
Second Saturdays at noonJune 14 Byron Kim,
Emmett at Twelve Months, 1994
July 12 Isamu Noguchi,
Child of the Bell mid-20th century
August 9 Viviano Codazzi,
The Men’s Bath, c. 1645
Thursdays at noonMay 8 Winslow Homer,
Fisher Girls on Shore, Tynemouth, 1884
May 15 Walter Quirt,
The Clinic, 1935
May 22 Robert Ryman,
Winsor, 1966
May 29 Luigi Parmiggiani,
St. Michael and the Dragon, c. 1880-1900
June 5 The Master of the Hartford Annunciation,
Annunciation, ca. 1480
June 12 Benni Efrat,
AL, 1970
June 19 Gilbert Stuart,
James Heath, 1784, and
Ozias Humphrey, ca. 1785
June 26 Sir Edward Burne-Jones,
St. George, 1877
July 3 Unknown Artist,
Three Children of the Champlin Family, c. 1835-1840
July 10 Edgar Degas,
Double-Portrait: The Cousins of the Painter, ca. 1865-68
July 17 The Wetmore Parlor, 1746-1765
July 24 Lorraine O’Grady,
Sisters I, II, III, IV, 1994
July 31 Seated bodhisattva,
Northern Qi Dynasty, 573
August 7 Childe Hassam,
Road to the Land of Nod, 1910
August 14 Roberto Matta,
Prescience, 1939
August 21 Orazio Andreoni,
Pereat (Let him Perish), 1892
August 28 Tim Rollins and K.O.S.,
The Metamorphosis, 1988-1989
Public Lectures
Lectures are free, open to the public, and begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Aetna Theater.
These lectures are sponsored by the Decorative Arts Council of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
Phoenix Art After Hours: First Thursdays at the Wadsworth Atheneum
5 – 8 pm $5 / Free for Members.
Enjoy a drink with friends, a snack after work, or dinner.
The Russell at the Wadsworth Atheneum pairs up with Phoenix Art After Hours.
Thursday, June 55 – 8 pm: Live Music
Get a jump start on summer under the stars with Jibaro Latin Jazz. Their fusion of Caribbean and South American jazz rhythms will caress your body and ignite your soul. IN GENGRAS COURT, WEATHER PERMITTING.
5 – 6:30 pm: Art-capade
Tease your senses! Explore the galleries on your own or with your friends and meet some great works of art. Pick up your game card at the door!
7:30 pm: Aetna Theater
Adam Miller Dance Project presents Room to Move. Experience physical beauty: sexy, fun, athletic and original! SEPARATE TICKET REQUIRED.
Thursday, July 35 – 8 pm: Live Music
Start the holiday weekend with sizzle and spice as Kultura Borikua heats up the night with Latin Salsa. Put on your dancing shoes and let’s cha cha cha!
IN GENGRAS COURT, WEATHER PERMITTING.
6 pm: Art Talk
Art & Identity in 20th Century Latin America with Robin Greeley, Associate Professor of Art History and Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut. Robin Greeley is the author of
Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War (2006), and co-editor of
Mexican Muralism: A Hemispheric Perspective (2009). Dr. Greeley has also taught at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, San Quentin Federal Penitentiary, and U.C. Berkeley.
7:30 pm: Aetna Theater
Lovesickness (Maldeamores). A comical three-part look at the ironies of love. 2007. Puerto Rico. 83 min. Rated R. Spanish w/English Subtitles. SEPARATE TICKET REQUIRED.
Thursday, August 75 – 8 pm: Live Music
Escape to the islands with the sounds of the Hartford Steel Symphony. Soca, Calypso, Reggae, Pop, Gospel and Jazz – enjoy the sound of paradise in downtown Hartford. IN GENGRAS COURT, WEATHER PERMITTING.
6 pm: Art Talk
Lorna Simpson, a pioneer of conceptual photography, is known primarily for her large-scale photograph-and-text works that confront and challenge conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history and memory. She will discuss her body of work from the 80s to today.
7:30 pm: Aetna Theater
Antônia. Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women form an all-female rap group. 2006. Brazil. 90 min. Rated PG-13. Portuguese w/English Subtitles. SEPARATE TICKET REQUIRED.
The Artful Lunch
Learn about special exhibitions and the Wadsworth Atheneum's collections during informative gallery programs, workshops, and special trips with curators and museum educators. Programs include either a catered lunch or tea with light fare. Advance registration is required. Please call (860) 838-4049.
Concerts
Sunday SerenadesPresented in collaboration with the Hartford Symphony OrchestraExperience the extraordinary sound of chamber music in the beautiful and vibrant setting of the Museum's Morgan Great Hall. Inspired by the special exhibition
Impressionists by the Sea, these concerts present European musical masterpieces composed during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Leonid Sigal, Artistic Director
Sunday, May 18 2:00 pm
Concert features Leonid Sigal, HSO Concertmaster and Artistic Director of the Sunday Serenades, playing works by Brahms and Khachaturian with Curt Blood on violin and Margreet Francis on piano.
Sunday Program:
Milhaud - Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Op. 157b
Brahms - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F minor, Op. 120
Brahms - Sonata No.1 for Piano and Violin in G major, Op.78
Khachaturian - Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
Tickets: $30 per concert
Tickets will be available soon through HSO Ticket Services.
860-244-2999 (9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday)
or online:
www.hartfordsymphony.org Sunday Serenades are made possible by The Saunders Foundation, with additional support from Carol and Burton Cunin; Robinson and Nancy Grover; Michael and Elsa Suisman; and several anonymous donors.
Classes
ART HISTORYImpressionism: Refashioning the Landscape of ModernityExplore the transitional climate of nineteenth-century European painting through a four-part course at the Wadsworth Atheneum. "Modernity" is a fundamental issue that reaches across the late nineteenth-century, encompassing both realism and naturalism. Investigate the modern places and experiences that lured the Impressionist painters and informed the new perspectives they brought to their rural and coastal subject matter.
Instructor: Michael Orwicz, Associate Professor 19th Century Art History, University of ConnecticutClass meets Wednesday evenings: March 19, 26, April 2 and 9, at 6:00 p.m. in the Aetna Theater at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
$100 Members/$140 Non-members
To Register for classes, please call 860.838.4039
Instructor Michael R. Orwicz is Associate Professor of 19th Century Art History at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Orwicz received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of California, Los Angeles (dissertation: The Representation of the Breton: Art Criticism, Politics and Ideology in Paris, 1885-1889). Dr. Orwicz edited Art Criticism and its Institutions in 19th Century France, (Manchester University Press, 1994), and is author of Gauguin's Brittany: Representations of Regionalism, Nationalism and Modernism (Yale University Press, forthcoming, 2007). His third book project is titled The Character of Class: Marxism, Art History and the New Left (1960-2005).
Dr. Orwicz has been a member of L'Association Histoire et Critique des Arts in Paris, and has served on the editorial board of its journal Histoire et Critique des Arts. During the 1980s, he was also a member of the research group Etudes sur le Statut Sociale de l'Artiste (University of Paris), a member of the interdisciplinary research team L'Art et l'Ecriture (University of Paris), and Associate Researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He served on the editorial board of the journal Cahiers des Arts et des Artistes (University of Paris), and has lectured at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, at the University of Paris and at London University.
Dr. Orwicz has been awarded numerous grants, including the Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Yale University, a Humanities Institute Fellowship at the University of Connecticut, and a Chancellor's Research Fellowship. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Art History at University College, London University, and has taught at Southern Methodist University in Paris. For the past twelve years, Dr. Orwicz was on the editorial board of the Oxford Art Journal. He has published on capitalist imperialism and the notion of spectacle; discourse theory in art criticism; theories of nationalism and representation; modernism and spatial geographies; death and sexuality in 19th century sculpture; tourism and the pleasure periphery; and the social history of art. His research specialties are Marxist theory and historiography; theories of nationalism and regionalism; 19c art in France and the United States.
Drawing from the Masters:
Thursdays, June 26, July 3, 10, 17, and 241:00-2:30 p.m.
$150/$125 for Members
During this 5-day drawing workshop, students will investigate a variety of drawing methods and materials of the Renaissance, working within the Wadsworth Atheneum’s fine collection of paintings from this period. Students will make their own
silverpoint stylus and prepare paper for this unique drawing method, favored by artists such as
Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, there will be discussions of other Renaissance materials and drawing/observation methods such as
Alberti’s Veil, Linear & Atmospheric Perspective, Chiaroscuro, The Fiobinacci Sequence and
The Golden Mean.
INSTRUCTOR:
Jeremiah Patterson, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
For information about Jeremiah Patterson, go to
www.jeremiahpatterson.comTo register, please call 860-838-4049
Learning to Appreciate Renaissance and Baroque Art, CRN #11700
A course offered jointly by Manchester Community College and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Expand your appreciation of art by exploring the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art through lively discussions about the museum’s renowned European Old Master paintings, from the rationale of the Renaissance to the dramatic art of the Baroque. Discover the artistic genius of Fra Angelico, Tintoretto, Zurbarán, Caravaggio and others, and how art from this period reflects the historical, social and political contexts of the 15th-17th centuries. For the fourth session, the class will meet at the Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main St., Hartford to experience looking at art firsthand. Museum admission is included in the course fee. No prior knowledge of art is necessary.
CRN #11700
Fridays, April 11, 18, and 25, 2:00-3:30 p.m. at Manchester Community College Bldg. AST C211; and May 2, 2:00-3:30 p.m. at the Wadsworth Atheneum
To register for this credit-free program: call Manchester Community College at (860) 512-3232 or register online at
www.online.commnet.edu.
Course Fee: $60
Instructor: Charlene Shang Miller, Assoc. Museum Educator for Docent Program and University Audiences at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
