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Ann Hamilton: Perspectives in Art |
Ann Hamilton, an accomplished and extremely versatile contemporary artist, will deliver the second lecture in the Weissman Center’s Leading Women in the Arts series.
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February 2007 7:00pm Gamble Auditorium Art Building |
Ann Hamilton, a visual artist hailed as one of America’s most provocative contemporary installation artists, will deliver the second lecture in the Leading Women in the Arts Series.
Her residency, scheduled for Spring 2007, will feature a public lecture on her work, discussions with senior Studio Art students as well as students from across the Arts, and a leadership lunch for students from all disciplines.
Leadership Luncheon Students are invited to a leadership luncheon with renowned installation artist Ann Hamilton and alumnae guest speakers that will include engaging conversations about art, academia, exhibitions, and professions. Please preregister by sending an email to the Weissman Center for Leadership. Alumnae Guests: Susan Mohl Powers ' 66 studied studio art, astronomy, and physics during her years at Mount Holyoke. After participating in the M.F.A. sculpture program at the University of Minnesota, she completed the M.F.A. degree in Visual Design at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. The New York Times hailed her first solo exhibition at the Squibb Corporate Headquarters in Princeton, N.J. as “striking for its adventurousness and its emphatic presence.” Her work is part of numerous public and private collections, and her studio is located in a nineteenth-century granite mill in Fall River, Massachusetts. Jane Fleck Eccles ’54, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began her Mount Holyoke years studying philosophy. Eventually, though, she immersed herself in art history and flourished as an artist while working with Edward Corbett, a California abstract painter who taught at the College from 1953 until 1962. Recently, she was invited to exhibit her handmade paper at the prestigious Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy. She is working now with pastel chalks and oil paints from her home on Cape Cod. Maura Kehoe Collins ‘83, graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in Art History and a minor in Asian Studies. She has two decades of experience in conservation and arts administration, and is the founder of Artiphile, an independent art advisory firm. As an undergraduate, she worked as a curatorial assistant in the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, and as acting registrar in 1980 initiated a project to computerize the Museum's catalogue. |
Set & Reset with Trisha Brown |
Trisha Brown launched the Leading Women in the Arts series with an illuminating discussion about dance, the body, design, and choreography. Brown will focus on Set and Reset, a masterpiece created first in 1983 that established Brown as a pioneering force in postmodern dance and a leader in abstract choreography. Set and Reset has become one of Brown’s most compelling and well-known pieces. It has been hailed for its explorations of visibility and invisibility, its flirtations with the boundaries of the stage, and its evocative costumes.
Set and Reset is an innovative project of restaging that provides student dancers with an intriguing opportunity for immersion into Brown’s choreographic process. Members of the Five-College Dance Department performed the piece and experienced first-hand the challenge and transcendence of Brown’s artistic vision.