Friday, April 10, 2015 - 6:30pm

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Van Pelt Auditorium

20th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bryn Mawr College - Temple University - University of Pennsylvania

Friday-Saturday, April 10-11

Free tickets required for Keynote Address and Symposium. Free Museum admission
for students and faculty from participating schools (with valid school ID).
Tickets may be reserved by calling 1-800-235-SHOW (7469) or visiting
philamuseum.org. Phone and online orders are subject to a $3.50 service fee per
ticket ($2.50 members). Tickets are available free of service charge at any of
the Museum’s Visitor Services Desks'

Friday, April 10, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium, PMA

"Structural Adjustment:
Mapping, Geography, and the Visual Cultures of Blackness"

Steven Nelson, Professor of African and African American Art History,
University of California, Los Angeles

The visual practices of artists Mark Bradford, María Magdalena Campos-Pons,
Houston Conwill, Moshekwa Langa, and Julie Mehretu—who use mapping and
geography in their works—are explored. Nelson discusses how these artists
reshape our understanding of African ancestry, notions of diaspora, and urban
spaces.

Saturday, April 11, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium, PMA

This symposium presents current research by graduate students from Bryn Mawr
College; Pennsylvania State University; Princeton University; Rutgers: The
State University of New Jersey; Tyler School of Art, Temple University;
University of Delaware; University of Maryland; and University of Pennsylvania.

10:00-12:15: Morning Session in Van Pelt Auditorium: Welcome, presentations,
moderated discussion

1. Brooks Rich, University of Pennsylvania
The Burin, the Blade, and the Paper’s Edge: The Engraved Scabbard Designs of
Allaert Claesz.

2. Erin Downey, Temple University, Tyler School of Art
Collaborative Enterprise: The Bentvueghels and Vincenzo Giustiniani’s Galleria
Giustiniana (1635-1637/8)

3. Nicole Elizabeth Cook, University of Delaware
Godfried Schalcken’s Nocturnes: The Aesthetics and Erotics of Night in
Seventeenth-Century Painting

4.Erin Duncan-O’Neil, Princeton University
‘Le Vilain Masque’ The Mask as medium in Daumier’s art

12:15-1:30: Lunch break

1:30-4:30: Afternoon session in the Van Pelt Auditorium: presentations,
moderated discussion, closing remarks

5. Brynne McBryde, Penn State University
Looking into the Abyss: Nineteenth-Century Gynecological Instruments and Vision

6. Amelia Wojciechowski, Bryn Mawr College
The Face of Identity: Type and Image in the Polish Poster

7. Abby Eron, University of Maryland
Into the Melting Pot: Maurice Sterne’s Welcoming to Freedom and the Ellen
Phillips Samuel Memorial

8. Heather Cammarata-Seale, Rutgers University
Embodied Paradox: Taxidermy and Contemporary Art, 1990-2010

Image: Untitled #15 (detail), 2004, by Mark Bradford (Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased with the Marion Stroud Fund for Contemporary Art on Paper, 2005-140-1)