Both Bethany Collins and Dario Robleto use fire in the printing process to convey the complexities of sound as a carrier of historical memory. With lasers and flames, singes and soot, each explores the tension between loss and preservation in printed sound. Join Collins, Robleto, and Jennifer L. Roberts for a discussion of the paradoxes of ephemerality in early sound recording, the unstable links between sonic and lyric memory, and the fragile cohesion of communal sensibility in music.

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Hear from Ericka Walker in conversation with Nikki Otten, associate curator of prints and drawings, about how Walker blended her 21st-century artistic practice with 19th-century print production methods to create a poster for the exhibition "Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret."

An artist and printmaker based in Nova Scotia, Walker was invited to design a poster for the exhibition that brings a contemporary interpretation of Jules Chéret’s art to both the walls of the Museum and the streets of Milwaukee.

This event is free to attend; Museum admission is not required. Extend your visit to the galleries by reserving an admission ticket in advance.

This event is hosted in conjunction with the "Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret exhibition."

The Expert Series welcomes renowned scholars and artists to the Museum for engaging, expansive conversations that dive deeper into an exhibition, artist, or theme.

Please join us on Friday, September 30 at 1PM for “Dahesh Prize Redux,” our first Virtual Salon of the 2022-2023 season. This series of online events is cosponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Dahesh Museum of Art. “Dahesh Prize Redux” will feature the two recipients of the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize at the nineteenth annual AHNCA/Dahesh Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art that took place in March 2022. They will represent their papers and discuss their work and future plans. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required at https://tinyurl.com/daheshredux2022.

Thomas Busciglio-Ritter, University of Delaware, “From Brussels to Point Breeze:
Charlotte Bonaparte and the American Landscape, 1821-1825.”
Busciglio-Ritter examines the production of landscape images by Charlotte Bonaparte during her American residence, 1821-1824. Her involvement with networks of transatlantic lithographers and painters resulted in the publication of her portfolio of sketches: Picturesque Views of America, one of the first to widely circulate views of U.S. scenery in print to European audiences.
He is the Richard & Mary Holland Assistant Curator of American Western Art at Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, as well as a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware. A scholar from France, he previously received an MA from the École du Louvre. His research covers nineteenth-century landscape art, racial relations, environmental issues, and artistic circulations between Europe and the United States. He was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Fellowship at the University of Delaware and a 2021 Terra Foundation Research Travel Grant. His research has been published in Revue de l’Art, the Oxford Journal of the History of Collections, Panorama, and Early American Studies as well as in the exhibition catalog Rosa Bonheur at the Musée des beaux-arts in Bordeaux and at the Musée d’Orsay.
Moderator Patricia Mainardi, City University of New York, Program Director AHNCA

Carter Jackson, Boston University, “Turbulent Politics and a Stage for Democracy: Government and Governmentality in the Allegheny County Courthouse.”
Jackson explores the role of architecture during moments of political unrest by examining how Henry Hobson Richardson’s design for the Allegheny County Courthouse, completed in 1888, mediated a fraught relationship between citizens and their government in late nineteenth-century Pittsburgh.

Speaker:
Michelle Foa, associate professor of art history in the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane University

Friday, January 20, 2023, 5:30 p.m.
Morley Family Lecture Hall
The 19th century witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of paper that had far-reaching effects on the arts. This lecture situates the changes that paper underwent in the context of key developments in trade, cotton cultivation, and textile production and consumption around the world. It also highlights artists’ and writers’ reactions to these shifts, revealing their profound concern about the longevity of the paper supports of their pictures and publications.

Bio:

Michelle Foa is associate professor of art history in the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane University. Her research focuses on 19th-century French art and visual and material culture.

This month’s ArtistNConversation will be hosted by Juan Omar Rodriguez, Curatorial Fellow at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, who will interview artist Scherezade Garcia. This free virtual public program is sponsored by the Dedalus Foundation.

The webinar series presenting artists in the All My Ancestors exhibition will continue every third Thursday through October.

The exhibition catalog can be downloaded free at brandywineworkshopandarchives.org.

Please visit the link below to register for the event.

"LA Print: Edition 11", a zoom event organized by LACMA, will focus on activist graphics and will be moderated by Staci Steinberger, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. Panelists include graphic designer MJ Balvanera of Impresos México, illustrator and activist Ashley Lukashevsky, and multi-disciplinary printmaker and researcher Álvaro D. Márquez.

Here's the link to RSVP to this zoom event:

https://www.lacma.org/event/la-print-edition-11-activist-graphics

If you happen to be in Southern California, you can also visit the related exhibition "What Would You Say? Activist Graphics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art" at the Riverside Art Museum now until August 7th.

Self Help Graphics & Art invites you to stop by our Open Studio and meet Kalli Arte, our Beyond the Press resident artist. The open studio takes place on the third Thursday of the month from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Self Help Graphics & Art. It's is an opportunity to engage with the artists, ask questions and see their work in progress. Limited space is available. RSVP today!

Kalli Arte is formed by self-taught artists and printmakers Adriana Carranza and Alfonso Aceves from Boyle Heights.

Follow the link below for more information.

Join Art Historian Brittany M. Hudak on Zoom to learn about Australian artist Thea Proctor and how queer women networked internationally through printmaking in the 1920s.

Self Help Graphics & Art invites you to stop by our Open Studio and meet Kalli Arte, our Beyond the Press resident artist. The open studio takes place on the third Thursday of the month from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Self Help Graphics & Art. It's is an opportunity to engage with the artists, ask questions and see their work in progress. Limited space is available. RSVP today!

Kalli Arte is formed by self-taught artists and printmakers Adriana Carranza and Alfonso Aceves from Boyle Heights.

Follow the link below for more information.

In this Letterform Lecture with Mike Hudson, we will explore the surprisingly complex history of printing for readers who are visually impaired.

Louis Braille published his monumental work introducing the Braille System in 1829. That book, the Procede pour ecrire les Paroles… was embossed in raised letters, a system invented by Valentin Haüy. Only six known copies survive today. Books in alternative tactile formats had been available in France since 1786, but it would not be until the 20th century that braille would be adopted around the world.

In this Letterform Lecture, Mike Hudson will lead us on an exploration of the surprisingly complex history of printing and embossing for readers who are blind or visually impaired.

This and all Letterform Lectures are a public aspect of the Type West postgraduate certificate program. Register to attend remotely.