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SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday, February 19
1:00–5:00 pm
Snapshot! Pre-Conference Symposium
Amon Carter Museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth
Limit: 140 participants, advance registration only
Price: Free
This is the inaugural presentation of the Amon Carter Museum Lectures on American Photography series. Kodak’s invention of the snapshot revolutionized everyday life, allowing people for the first time to visually record their lives easily and inexpensively. Almost immediately, the family camera became a ubiquitous tool not merely for constructing family histories but for exploring sight itself. Conference attendees are invited to come to this half-day symposium, presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978. Speakers analyze the democratization of visual culture brought by snapshot cameras, the early corporatization of visual tropes, the overt interplay of the snapshot with high art, and the redefinitions of the form brought by digital technologies. There will be time in the day’s schedule to view all of the Carter’s galleries, including selections from the museum’s renowned collection of American photography.
Speakers: Allan Sekula, Professor, California Institute of the Arts; Nancy Martha West, Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri–Columbia, author of Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia; Sarah Greenough, Curator and Head, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, and organizing curator and catalogue author of The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978; John Rohrbach, Senior Curator of Photographs, Amon Carter Museum; Kevin Henry, Coordinator, Product Design at Columbia College, Chicago; Douglas R. Nickel, Andrea A. Rosenthal Professor of Modern Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University.
Registration: email snapshot@cartermuseum.org or call 817-989-5090. Deadline: January 3, 2008.
Transportation: a complimentary round-trip bus from the
Adam’s Mark Hotel is provided that day to symposium registrants;
details are provided with registration. Call for information on other
transportation options.
This symposium is underwritten by the Amon Carter
Museum’s Anne Burnett Tandy Distinguished Lectures on
American Art endowment.
5:00–8:00 pm
*SOLD OUT* Open House: Three Fort Worth Museums
Price: Shuttle bus $5 round trip, advance tickets only
Spend the evening before the conference begins visiting the splendid museums of nearby Fort Worth.
Amon Carter Museum
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
On view: The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978;
Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists of the 1940s;
Masterworks of American Photography;
100 Years of Autochrome
Kimbell Art Museum
3333 Camp Bowie Blvd.
On view: Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
3200 Darnell Street
On view: Permanent collection
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street
On view: Permanent collection
Transportation: Depart by bus from the Olive Street side of the
Adam’s Mark Hotel at 4:00 pm; bus departs the Amon Carter
Museum to return to the hotel at approximately 8:15 pm, arriving at
approximately 9:15 pm. Limited to the first 200 people.
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Wednesday, February 20
5:30–7:00 pm
NEW EVENT LISTING
Exhibition Opening Reception
“Minis, Maxis, and Mods”
Fashion on Main, the University of North Texas (UNT) Texas Fashion Collection (TFC) exhibition space
1901 Main Street
Come see fashions of the 1960s and 1970s selected from the 14,000 garments in the TFC permanent collection.
The TFC gallery is a short walk from the Adam’s Mark. Please ask the concierge for directions.
5:30–7:30 pm
Latino Cultural Center: Open House and Reception
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak at Good Latimer, Dallas
On view: Cardinal Points
The Latino Cultural Center is a multidisciplinary arts organization that presents events by renowned Hispanic and Latin American artists in the visual and performing arts, films in Spanish, workshops, and literary readings. The LCC also provides artists, local cultural organizations, and the Latino community with a venue to develop and celebrate Latino culture and art. Light food and drink will be served. Sponsored by the Latino Cultural Center and Richland College.
Directions: The Latino Cultural Center is a short walk from the Adam’s Mark Hotel. Ask the concierge for directions.
5:30–7:30 pm
Artists’ Talk and Reception: The Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
3120 McKinney Avenue, Dallas
On view: The Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic: Contemporary
Encaustic Painting
Directions: By public transportation: Board the McKinney Avenue trolley at the corner of Ross Avenue and St. Paul Street, four blocks from the Adam’s Mark Hotel. (Walk northwest on Olive Street toward Bryan Street; turn left on Ross Avenue; go two blocks to St. Paul Street.) The free trolley runs 10:00 am–10:00 pm, seven days a week, every 15 to 20 minutes. Ask the driver to drop you in front of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary.
On foot: Walk northwest on Olive Street toward Bryan Street. Turn right at San Jacinto Street. Go one block and turn left at North Pearl Street. Go about half a mile and turn right at McKinney Avenue. The McKinney Avenue Contemporary is less than a mile away.
6:00–8:00 pm
Art Talk Happy Hour: 500X Gallery
500 Exposition Avenue, Dallas
On view: Your Favorite Artist Was a Member: 30 Years at 500X
6:00–9:00 pm
Opening Reception for the CAA Annual Exhibition: Point of
Convergence: MFA
The Gallery at UTA
University of Texas, Arlington
Fine Arts Building, 502 S. Cooper Street
Curated by Benito Huerta, director of the Gallery at UTA, this exhibition presents a group of professional artists who have received an MFA degree, and pairs them with current MFA candidates from the same universities.
Transportation: a complimentary bus is provided, limited to the first 49 people, first come, first served; bus departs from the Olive Street side of the Adam’s Mark Hotel at 4:45 pm; bus departs the university to return to the hotel at 7:15 pm, arriving at approximately 8:00 pm.
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2:30–5:00 pm
Distinguished Scholar Session
Adam’s Mark Hotel, Dallas Ballroom C, 1st Floor
This year’s honoree is Robert L. Herbert, the eminent scholar of
French nineteenth-century art. He will be joined by chair Nancy
Troy, University of Southern California, and a panel of four speakers.
After a long career at Yale, Prof. Herbert is now the Andrew W.
Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
American Philosophical Society, and has been named an Officer of
the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian
Society, Nature’s Workshop: Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts,
and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat
and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
5:30–7:00 pm
New Media Panel and Exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary
2801 Swiss Avenue
The Algorithms of Art
Chair: Holly Willis, University of Southern California
Examining an emergent form: more artists are exploring the possibilities of code as an expressive form and creating artworks that are dynamic, generative, and performative.
6:00–7:30 pm
CAA Convocation
Adam’s Mark Hotel
Dallas Ballroom B, 1st Floor
Free and open to the public
Welcome by Linda Downs, CAA Executive
Director; opening remarks and presentation
of CAA Awards for Distinction by
Nicola Courtright, CAA President;
keynote address by Dr. Donny George, former Director of the
State Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq and director
general of the National Museum in Baghdad, now a visiting
professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook
University in New York.
7:30–9:30 pm
CAA Gala Reception
The Nasher Sculpture Center
2001 Flora Street, Dallas
On view: Permanent collection
Limit: 500 people
Price: Advance: $35
At the conference: $40 (payment by
credit card, check, or cash in the registration
area during registration hours).
No tickets will be sold at the Nasher
Sculpture Center.
Join friends and colleagues to celebrate the opening of the conference. Ticket includes wine, beer, soft drinks, and light hors d’oeuvres. Advance tickets will be included in your registration packet.
The Dallas Museum of Art and the Crow Collection of Asian Art will join the Nasher Sculpture Center in welcoming conference attendees. A conference badge is required for admittance to their Open House:
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
On view: J.M.W. Turner
Crow Collection of Asian Art
2010 Flora Street
On view: The permanent collection
Directions from the Adam’s Mark Hotel: All three museums are at the intersection of Harwood and Flora Streets, a 10-minute walk from the hotel. Exit the hotel’s main entrance and turn right onto N. Olive Street. Walk 2 blocks to Ross. Turn left and walk 1 block along Ross to Harwood. Turn right on Harwood and go 1 block to Flora Street.
7:30–9:00 pm
New Media Panel and Exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary 2801 Swiss Avenue
Art blogging == global.exhibit(local)
Chair: Paul Catanese, San Francisco State University
An explosion of new blogs from artists, collectors, galleries, residency programs, and museums are reshaping notions of professional practice within the arts.
Directions: By car: Go northeast on Bryan Street for seven blocks to Texas Street. Turn right and go four blocks to Swiss Avenue. The Dallas Contemporary is on the corner.
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Friday, February 22
Hot Wax: Encaustic Painting Workshop
Session 1: 9:00–11:00 am
Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd., Dallas
Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist
University
Limit: 40 participants
Price: $40, advance registration only, includes round-trip bus
Observe the Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic in action and explore this seductive and malleable medium. This dynamic 2 hour workshop provides an interactive opportunity to learn about painting with hot wax from experienced encaustic artists. Participants will have access to several stations offering information on image transfers; direct encaustic painting; encaustic painting with embedded screenprinted imagery; sgraffito/intaglio techniques with encaustic and oil paint combinations; and multilayered imagery and the use of stencils. With materials and equipment provided by R & F Handmade Paints, Inc., participants may create their own encaustic paintings. An informational packet will be provided. Advance tickets will be included in your registration packet. No onsite tickets will be sold.
Presenters: Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University; Richard Frumess, founder, R & F Handmade Paints; Kristy Deetz: University of Wisconsin–Green Bay; Peter Dykhuis: Director, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University; Lorraine Glessner, Tyler School of Art; Jeffrey Hirst, independent artist, Minneapolis.
Transportation: a complimentary round–trip shuttle bus is provided for registrants from the Adam’s Mark Hotel. The bus departs from the Olive Street side of the hotel at 8:00 am and leaves the university to return to the hotel at 11:30 am, arriving at approximately 12:30 pm. Public transportation is also available: Take any DART (light rail) train from the Pearl Street stop northbound to the Mockingbird stop. The campus is a 2-block walk from there.
ARTSPACE
Annual Artist Interviews
Yoko Ono will be interviewed by Jonathan Fineberg, 2:30–3:30 pm
Adel Abidin will be interviewed by Nada Shabout, 4:00–5:00 pm
The Artist Interviews will be held in
Dallas Ballroom B, 1st Floor, Adam’s Mark Hotel