Southeastern College Art Conference October 21 – 24 2 to Our SECAC Colleagues
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2009 MOBILE Southeastern College Art Conference October 21 – 24 2 To Our SECAC Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the SECAC 2009 Annual Conference in Mobile, Alabama. Th e conference is hosted this year by the University of South Alabama with additional support provided by Space 301, Mobile’s contemporary art center. Th e conference hotel, the Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel, is on the Mobile waterfront and is a part of the downtown arts and entertainment district. Art spaces, galleries, museums and dining are all within easy walking distance. And, for those who have brought families along or plan to stay in the area aft er the conference, Mobile has much to off er. Th e Exploreum science center, the Museum of Mobile, and historic Fort Condi are all adjacent to the hotel with the USS Alabama, Dauphin Island Sea Lab Estuarium, and beaches only a short drive away—yes, the water is usually still warm in October. Th is year, there are 115 sessions scheduled with over 350 presenters participating. Th ese and other planned activities set the stage for an exciting conference. Wednesday’s Board meeting starts the conference, and an opening reception follows at the hotel. Daily sessions begin Th ursday at 8am and continue until Saturday aft ernoon. Members are invited to attend an exhibition of Jun Kaneko’s work and a reception at the Mobile Museum of Art on Th ursday evening. Friday, conference sessions continue and the SECAC Awards ceremony is scheduled around a luncheon at noon. Friday night will be particularly eventful with a reception for the SECAC Members Juried Exhibition at Space 301 and an exhibition of work by the 2008 SECAC Artist Fellowship recipient, John Powers. Th e reception is followed by the presentation of this year’s keynote address by Joel-Peter Witkin. Activities and sessions will extend into Saturday with special events available to attendees such as a tour of historic Mobile, a bus tour to Bellingrath Gardens, and a tour to the Gee’s Bend Quilter’s Collective. Th e conference concludes on Saturday in the hotel with a reception where you can make fi nal night dinner plans with your colleagues. We hope that you enjoy this special time of exchange and interaction with your colleagues in the arts as well as the thought provoking and entertaining activities that are planned. Again, welcome to Mobile. We hope that you enjoy your time in the city. Sincerely, Jason Guynes 2009 SECAC Conference Chair Chairperson of the Department of Visual Arts 3 Th e University of South Alabama JOEL-PETER WITKIN, Featured Conference Speaker Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer of international renown whose work has been exhibited at MOMA, the Whitney Biennial, the National Gallery of Art, and internationally at museums and galleries in France, Spain, Germany, Moscow, and Japan, among others. Witkin is known for his always powerful and often controversial work which deals with elemental components of the human condition such as life, death, spirituality, and religion. His work is the subject of many books and has won numerous awards internationally. DR. PAUL RICHELSON, SECAC Members Exhibition Juror Dr. Paul Richelson is Curator of American Art at the Mobile Museum of Art. He holds the B.A. from Yale University and both the Ph.D. and the M.F.A. from Princeton University. He is past Chief Curator at the Grand Rapids Art Museum where he served from 1987-1991 and past Assistant Director/Curator at the Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University where he served from 1984-1987. Recent publications and research activities include Alabama Masters: Artists and 4 Their Work supported by the American Masterpieces Award from the National Endowment of the Arts, A Perfect marriage: Wood and Color, Collectors of Wood Art for SOFA Chicago, and Coming Home: American Paintings 1930-1950 from the Schoen Collection. >>> Conference Schedule >> WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 Nestor Armando Gil, Bowdoin College Transitions: Options for Entering Academic Life 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. aft er the MFA – Postdocs SECAC Executive Committee Amerindian Spaces in American Art 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Mobile Bay III Board Meeting Chair: Paul Niell, University of North Texas Space 301 Conference Room Amy G. Marshman, Virginia Commonwealth 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. University Early Registration Pick-up Architecture of Conversion: Convento Kivas 2nd Floor Pre-Convene Area in New Mexico 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Bradley Finson, Valdosta State University Opening Reception Th e Art of Gordon Yellowman Bon Secour Bay I Paul Niell, University of North Texas >> THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 Viewing the Amerindian Figure through Public 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Monuments in Nineteenth-Century Havana: SESSION 1 Urban Space, Cuban Identity, and Representation You Can Design, But Can You Write? Art Education Forum VII-A: Policy, Administration, and Accreditation Mobile Bay I Chairs: Lisa Anderson and Nancy Lambert, Grand Bay II University of South Carolina Upstate Chair: Th omas M. Brewer, University of Central Florida Sarah Falls, ARTstor Looking to Learn: Design Resources in the Th omas Brewer, University of Central Florida ARTstor Digital Library and Read Diket, William Carey University NAEP Arts 2008 and What It Means to Visual Chuck Tomlins, University of Tulsa Arts Education Visual Art and Literacy… Karen Heid, University of South Carolina Nancy Lambert, University of South Carolina Mentoring Relationships in the Elementary Upstate Art Classroom: Th e Role of Self-Effi cacy Help! I Need To Write A Paper On Graphic and Academic Success Design Bryna Bobick, University of Memphis, The Good, The Bad and the Future of Adjunct Curricular Frames Being Taught in Tennessee Teaching in Art Departments Elementary and Middle School Art Classrooms Mobile Bay II Art and Science at a Crossroads Chair: James Greene. University of North Florida and Flagler College. Riverboat Chair: Raymond Gaddy, University of North Florida Jennifer Stoneking-Stewart, Belmont University. Th e Downward Spiral: How Use of Adjuncts Jane Andrus, University of Kentucky Harm Institutions and Students Splendid Chemistry: Th e Union of Art and Science in Emile Gallé’s Glass. Mark Creegan, University of North Florida and Florida State College. Erika Osborne, West Virginia University Th e Art of Ecology More Th an Cheap Labor, Innovations 5 of Free Agents Keith Waddington, University of Miami ArtScience Course and Study Laboratory: Routes to Breaking Down Walls. WED & THURS Mobile in the Middle Ages I: The Early and Signifi cance of the Self and the Other: Claes High Middle Ages Oldenburg’s Artistic Partnerships with Patty Grand Bay I Mucha, Hannah Wilke, and Coosje van Bruggen Chair: Peter Scott Brown, University of North Florida 9:45 – 11:45 a.m. Brooke Falk, Rutgers University Session 2 Pilgrimage Tokens of Saint Symeon Stylite the Younger (521-592): Sacred Substance & Inspiring “Aesthetic Pollution”: Art, Trauma and the Image Politics of Memorials Mobile Bay I Janet Snyder, West Virginia University Chairs: Roann Barris, Radford University Fleeting Fashion: the Mobile Language of Textiles and Dorothy Joiner, LaGrange College in the Middle Ages Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Auburn University Jennifer Feltman, Florida State University c. 31,000 BC Chauvet Memories, not Memorials: Learning from the Rhinoceroses, lions and Moving the Soul, Spreading the Word: Th e Ancient Maya and the Little Bighorn Battlefi eld mammoth feature on the Th eology of Moral Intentionality at the University walls of the Chauvet cave, National Monument in southern France. of Paris and its Impact on Th irteenth-Century Sculptural Programs of the Last Judgment Matt W. Whistler, Florida State University Th roughout France Th e Passion of Sacco And Vanzetti: Th e Construction of a Modern Memorial Internationalization and the Visual Arts Windjammer Roann Barris, Radford University Chair: Jason Guynes, University of South Alabama Memorial or Museum? Berlin’s Topography of Terror Angela R. Horne and Rachel Green, Armstrong Atlantic State University Nicole Leigh Mahan, Florida State University Engaging Arts Students in Global Experiences: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s If You See Something...: From in the Classroom to Across the Equator Th e Role of the Artist in Reformulating c. 3100 BC Saqqarah Democracy in Post 9/11 America The Egyptians paint murals on the walls of Ginger Sheridan and Scott Tayloe, tombs, designed to help Jacksonville University Andrea Gyorody, University of California, the occupants in the next Speak My Language: International Studies Using world. Los Angeles the Visual Arts Model Mobilizing the Archive: Emily Jacir’s Material for a Film 1436 AD Alberti’s Treatise Jason Guynes, University of South Alabama Perspective fascinates Italian Renaissance Getting Study Abroad Off the Ground: Undergraduate Research Session I painters after the Considerations in Founding International Arts Mobile Bay II publication of Alberti’s treatise on the subject, Programs Chair: Elise Smith, Millsaps College De Pictura. The Pleasures and Perils of Artistic Biography Christina Glover, University of West Florida Clipper Portraits in Another World: Th e Iconography Chairs: Benjamin Harvey, Mississippi State of the Human Figure in the Southeastern University, and Michael Yonan, University of Ceremonial Complex Missouri–Columbia Colleen Grant, Loyola College in Maryland Sigrid Danielson, Grand Valley State University A Modern Kind of Ruin: Bramante’s Belvedere Th e Absent Biography: Art History’s Creation of in a Giuli Romano Painting of the Madonna and THURS the Early Medieval Artist Child with Saint John the Baptist Denise M. Budd, Columbia University Kellie A. Burris Walton, East Carolina ‘Without Wealth and Working Irregularly’: University Th e Incongruity of Leonardo da Vinci Luca Giordano’s Th e Rape of the Sabines 6 as Entrepreneur as Representative of the Marriage Institution in Baroque Italy Indra K. Lacis, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland/ Case Western Reserve University Cynthia Shurbutt, Converse College Amelia Kahl Avdic, University of Maryland Sweetgrass Baskets – An American Art, Born out Modernist magazines Plamuk and Zenit of Slavery in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia Art Partnerships with the Community Kerry Powell, Th e Graduate Center, Leonardo c.