Calendar, 2004-05

All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. No tickets are required.

OCTOBER

Thursday, October 14, 5:00 PM
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Reception Hall, Third Floor
Robert Lehman Art Lecture:
"Making and Marketing Mondrian"
Professor Nancy J. Troy
Department of Art History
University of Southern California
(Prof. Troy is guest curator for the exhibition "Van Gogh to Mondrian,"
showing October 19 to January 16 at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.)

Wednesday, October 27, 3:00 to 4:30 PM********** Refreshments will be served.
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Reception Hall, Third Floor
Careers in Art History and Visual Arts Information Forum
For Art History Majors and Minors, Minors in Architectural Studies, Minors in Visual Arts (formerly known as Studio Arts) and interested students --
Where can you get an internship?
What study abroad opportunities exist?
Is there life after your degree?
Art History and Visual Arts faculty, Michael C. Carlos Museum staff, and others will be there to discuss career opportunities related to Art History and Visual Arts degrees, as well as resources and opportunities available to students while at Emory.
For more information, contact Dorothy Fletcher, 404.727.0514, dfletch@emory.edu.

Saturday, October 30 - 15 free tickets and van transportation to the "Van Gogh to Mondrian" exhibition at the High Museum of Art. These will be timed tickets for that day only at 1:00 PM. More information about this event TBA on LearnLink. Reservations for these tickets will be taken starting Monday, October 25.
Contact: Dorothy Fletcher, 404.727.0514, dfletch@emory.edu.

NOVEMBER

Thursday, November 11, 5:00 - 6:00 PM*************Refreshments will be served.
212 Carlos Hall
Art History Alum in Careers Event #1: "From the Art History Major to a Career in Museum Work"
Samantha Hightower Kelly, 1996 Emory graduate with a major in Art History, currently Assistant Curator of Education, Adult Programs, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, will discuss her path to museum work.
For more information, contact Dorothy Fletcher, 404.727.0514, dfletch@emory.edu.

Wednesday, November 17, 5:30 - 6:30 PM**************Refreshments will be served.
212 Carlos Hall
Art History Alum in Careers Event #2: "Teaching Art Grades K-12"
Robert Hoang, 2002 Emory graduate in the Business School, with a major in Art History, has received an M.A. in Art Education from Georgia State, and is currently finishing up his practice teaching at all levels and will be in the job market Fall 2005.
For more information, contact Dorothy Fletcher, 404.727.0514, dfletch@emory.edu.

JANUARY

Monday, January 31
5:00 PM
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Reception Hall
New Perspectives Lecture:
"Branding the Campus and Other Work"
Christian Philipp Müller

The Emory Art History Department is pleased to announce a lecture by the Swiss installation artist Christian Philipp Müller. Müller has exhibited and taught internationally since 1986. A contributor to such major exhibitions as Documenta X and the 1993 Venice Biennale, he has had solo shows at the Munich Kunsthalle and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels and at such galleries as American Fine Arts, New York and Christian Nagel Gallery, Cologne. Müller will speak on a sequence of works developed for and about college campuses, including "Branding the Campus," a project currently on exhibition in the show "What Business Are You In?" at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Helena Reckitt.

MARCH

Thursday, March 3, 5:00 PM
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Reception Hall
Robert Lehman Art Lecture:
“Sunken Courts and Temple Tops: Religious Change & the Ancient Moche of Peru”
Professor Jeffrey Quilter
Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks

APRIL

Tuesday, April 19, 5:30 PM
112 White Hall
Robert Lehman Art Lecture:
“Pella, Capital of Alexander"
Professor Ioannis Akamatis
Professor of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Director of Excavations at Pella

Thursday, April 28, 5:00 PM
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Reception Hall
Robert Lehman Art Lecture:
“Photography in the Service of Ethnographic Realism"
Professor Okwui Enwezor

Owkui Enwezor is an internationally renowned curator and critic. Among Enwezor's many curatorial efforts are the exhibitions "Trade Routes, History and Geography: The Second Johannesburg Biennal," "The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994," and "Documenta XI," the leading international survey of contemporary art in Kassel, Germany. An editor of "Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace," Enwezor is Visiting Professor in Art History, University of Pittsburgh, and Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute.

This lecture co-sponsored by the Hightower Fund.