February
21, 2003 Nina
Felshin Continues Visual Studies Series
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Curator
Nina Felshin is next up in MHC's visual studies series. |
Nina Felshin, curator
of exhibitions at Wesleyan University's Zilkha Gallery,
will be the next speaker in The Culture and Nature of the
Visual, the College's yearlong lecture series on visual
literacy. Felshin will present a lecture titled "Ways of
Thinking: Reading the Visual” Thursday, February 27, at
4:30 pm in Gamble Auditorium. A reception will follow. The lecture
and a related faculty seminar are cosponsored by the Office of
the Dean of Faculty and the Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Center
for Leadership.
"We are excited to begin the series' spring lectures
with Nina Felshin, a longtime activist in the art world,”
says Associate Professor of Art and series coorganizer Anthony
Lee. "Through her many writings and exhibitions, Nina has
argued that thinking about things visual and developing an ethical
and moral stance in social and political life are not just compatible
but necessary.”
Felshin's past exhibitions include Embedded Metaphor,
Black and Blue: Examining Police Violence, and Beyond Glory: Re-Presenting
Terrorism. Her most recent work, now on view at Wesleyan,
is Good Morning, America, an exhibition that examines
the threat of endless war and domestic repression. She is the
editor of But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism and
the author of numerous articles and catalog essays. She also teaches
a course on contemporary art in the art and art history department
at Wesleyan.
The Culture and Nature of the Visual continues March
27 with "Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture,
and Film,” a lecture by Giuliana Bruno, professor of visual
and environmental studies at Harvard University, followed on
April 24 by "Polemic in the Spaces of Public Memory,”
a talk by James Young, professor of English and chair of Judaic
studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It concludes
May 8 with "Living Color: The Animation of Racial Stereotypes
in Spike Lee's Film Bamboozled,” a lecture
by M. J. T. Mitchell, professor of art history and English at
the University of Chicago's Cochrane-Woods Art Center.
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