The 15th Annual College Art History Symposium will be held Thursday and Friday, April 7-8, at the University of Central Arkansas in McCastlain Hall Room 143. The symposium began in 1991 to offer an opportunity for students in art history throughout the state to deliver papers in the field. In addition, the symposium includes a lecture by an outstanding scholar in art history. Since the beginning, UCA and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have alternated hosting the symposium.
This year UCA will host the day long event where 11 undergraduate and graduate students from UCA and UALR will give 20 minute papers on a variety of topics from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 8. The presentations are open to the public, and listeners are welcome to come and go between presentations as schedules permit.
The special guest speaker this year is Dr. Howard Risatti, chair of the Department of Craft/Material Studies and professor of modern and contemporary art and critical theory in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.
As part of the Symposium, Risatti will deliver a public address on Thursday, April 7 at 6 p.m. in McCastlain Hall Room 143. He will lecture on ?Coliseum Culture: Art in the Age of Spectacle.?
There will be an additional presentation by Risatti on Friday, April 8 at 3 p.m. itled ?Craft versus Design.?
All events are free and open to the public. Those attending the symposium may park without a permit in the visitor parking lot, south of McCastlain. For more information contact Dr. Gayle Seymour at 450-5782.
Schedule of Events
April 8, 2005
8-8:45 a.m.
Registration/Coffee
McCastlain Hall Room 143
Session I
9-9:05 a.m.
Welcome – Dr. Gayle Seymour
9:05-9:25 a.m.
Sara Harvey, UCA
?Thoroughly Modern Mary: Contemporary Perspectives on Italian Renaissance Images of the Virgin Mary?
9:30-9:50 a.m.
Anna Boyd, UALR
?A Discussion on the Reciprocal Influences of Delft Townscape Painters?
9:55-10:15 a.m.
Janis Stair, UALR
?Art and Literature: The Realism of Zola and Manet?
10:20-10:50 a.m.
Molly Casto-Bull, UALR
?Paul Gauguin and Primitivism: Reassessing the ?Primitive? Ideal?
10:50-11:10 a.m.
Coffee Break
McCastlain Hall
Session II
11:10-11:30 a.m.
Shaina Langston, UALR
?Andre Masson: The Mythological Theme of Pasiphae and the Labyrinth of the Unconscious?
11:35-11:55 a.m.
Joyce Brantley, UCA
?Georgia O?Keeffe, Black Iris?
12-12:20 p.m.
Heyam Dannawi, UALR
?Dali and His Political Views?
12:25-12:45 p.m.
Robin Dancey, UALR
?Musicals and Comedies of the 1930s: Germany vs. Hollywood?
12:45-1:45 p.m.
Lunch
Mirror Room, McAlister Hall
Session III
1:45-2:05 p.m.
Donna Uptigrove, UCA
?Rebecca Horn?s Personal Concert in Reverse?
2:10-2:30 p.m.
Jasmine Greer, UCA
?Personal Adversity: Louise Bourgeois?s Maman?
2:35-2:55 p.m.
Amber Uptigrove, UALR
?Matthew Ritchie: The Processing of Information as Visual Language?
3-3:05 p.m.
Introduction of Dr. Howard Risatti by Dr. Reinaldo Morales
3:05-4 p.m.
Dr. Howard Risatti, ?Craft versus Design?
