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art history and critical studies July 7 - 10 ACTIVITIES:  Two days of presentations and discussions. Saturday 10:00 am - 3:30 pm (with lunch break); Sunday 10:00 am - 12 noon. Contemporary Art of Cuba & Cuban American Artists  PREREQUISITES: Open to all. Holly Block  guest artist Tania Bruguera FACULTY:  Enrique Martínez Celaya attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, studied applied physics at Cornell University and earned graduate degrees in quantum electronics from the University of California, Berkeley, and painting and sculpture from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work is in the permanent collections of many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig. www.martinezcelaya.com Tuition: $475 Code: D0609 July 14 - 17 Alberto Casado, Oasis (detail) CONCEPT: This four-day workshop explores the art and artistic practices of contemporary artists from Cuba. Holly Block is the author and editor of ART CUBA: The New Generation, a book on contemporary art from Cuba. published in 2001. She is a specialist in contemporary Cuban art from the 1990’s and was one of the first curators to select now important international artists such as Alexandre Arrechea, Tania Bruguera, Alberto Casado, Carlos Garaicoa, Aimee Garcia, Los Carpinteros, Esterio Segura, Toirac, and more. Block will focus her workshop on the artists’ work, their concepts, and art making processes. She will offer an inside view on the Cuban art experience, its educational programs, and what makes art an important exchange on the island and off. Realities, Fallacies & Fantasies: black beauty and female identity Leslie King-Hammond  guest artist  Deborah Willis Stumbling Towards an Artwork that is not as Terrible as it Could Be  who transformed contemporary art Jointly presented by Deborah Willis CONCEPT: This four-day workshop will explore four dynamics of Black female identity —”The Subversive Stitch,” “Performative Norms,” “Graphic Revelations” and “The Optical Lens.” Black women have used their aesthetic intellect to establish a sense of agency and identity within the resistant mainstreams of American Art. The works of Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, Chakia Booker, Joyce Scott, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, Bettye Saar and Carrie Mae Weems repre sent the new voices giving meaning and reality to the art world of the twenty-first century. ACTIVITIES: Four morning presentations 9:00 - 11:50 am. PREREQUISITES: Open to all. FACULTY: Leslie King-Hammond is Dean of Graduate Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington; Goucher College, Baltimore; the Centenary College of Louisiana, and elsewhere. Group shows include those at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; the Art Center of South Florida, Miami, and the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC.   Deborah Willis, PhD, is Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU’s Tish School of the Arts. Alfred Stieglitz & the Beginnings of American Modernism  Tuition: $250 Code: D0612 David E. Brauer    Tuition: $475 Code: D0916 Enrique Martínez Celaya CONCEPT: Topics to be discussed during this weekend workshop include the challenges of making art in the age of careerism and art funds, the struggle between entertainment and art and the obstacles and help in the formation of an artist. In addition to the lectures, a selection of critiques will be held as a well as a “symposium” between the participants, the artist and his created character, Thomas Hoveling. The “symposium” will include debates with volunteers regarding artistic worldview, question and answer and interviews. 6   W W W.ANDER SO NRANCH.ORG 1-888-353-4710 FACULTY:  David E. Brauer has taught at the University of Houston, Rice University, and the Women’s Institute, and is currently the senior lecturer in art history at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He has recently written a catalogue essay for a London exhibition of painting by Gerald Laing (who taught at the Aspen Institute), and an essay in a forthcoming book on Mark Rothko published by the Rothko Foundation in Houston. After the Revolution: women July 28 - August 1 Enrique Martínez Celaya    PREREQUISITES: Open to all. August 4 - 6 PREREQUISITES: Open to all. July 12 - 13 ACTIVITIES: Five morning lectures 9:00 - 11:50 am. Tuition: $475 Code: D0713 ACTIVITIES: Four morning presentations 9:00 - 11:50 am. On Thursday evening, Holly will interview Tania and Tania will present her work. FACULTY:  Holly Block is the Executive Director of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, a contemporary art collecting museum with an extensive educational program. Block has traveled widely internationally and has organized many projects, exhibitions, and residencies with contemporary artists for the past 30 years. She was the former director of Art in General, a leading nonprofit arts organization located in lower Manhattan.   Tania Bruguera produces political artwork through installations and performances. She graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown at several international exhibitions including Documenta 11 and the 49th and 51st Venice Bienalle, the Havana V and VII Bienniel, the 23rd Sao Paolo Bienalle. Solo shows include at the Kunsthalle Wien, Casa de las Americas, and Museo de Bellas Artes. In 1998 she was a Guggenheim fellow and in 2000 was awarded the Prince Claus Prize. of many rarely seen works. Alfred Stieglitz was a pioneer in bringing European and American modernism to the American public. An important photographer, he founded the PhotoSecession group in 1902, the influential magazine Camera Work, and the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, also known as the ‘29I,’ which, from 1905 to 1917, showed the first modern European and American works seen in the US. Stieglitz showed Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso and Brancusi, along with American modernists such as Marin, Hartley, Dove, Weber, and later, O’Keeffe, who became his wife, and Stanton Macdonald-Wright. Untiring in his advocacy of American modernism, from 1929 until his death he directed An American Place, an exhibit space dedicated to bringing a distinctive American vision to the public. Georgia O’Keeffe, Poppies (detail) CONCEPT: This new workshop will examine the life and work of Alfred Stieglitz and that of many of the artists he championed. Lectures will be extensively illustrated with slides I N FO @ A N D E R S O N R A N C H . O R G Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal & Sue Scott    Tuition: $350 Code: D1018 Elizabeth Murray, The Low Down (detail) CONCEPT: This seminar will examine the rise of women artists in the late 20th century, viewed through the work of twelve key figures. In the book, After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, critics Eleanor Heartney and Nancy Princenthal and curators Helaine Posner and Sue Scott assess the enormous strides made by women artists since the advent of the feminist movement and the resulting growth of support on the part of museums, galleries, and educational institutions, while considering the limitations women still face. The achievement of women in the visual arts since 1971 is explored through the careers and continuing impact of twelve exemplary artists: Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero, Elizabeth Murray, Marina Abramowicz, Judy Pfaff, Jenny Holzer, Ann Hamilton, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Shirin Neshat, Ellen Gallagher, and Dana Schutz. ACTIVITIES: This three-day course will include panel discussions, artist interviews and slide presentations. The Monday lecture will be at 7:30 pm; the Tuesday lecture will be at 12:30 pm and the Wednesday lecture will be at 7:30 pm at the Aspen Institute in Aspen. PREREQUISITES: Anyone interested in contemporary art, women’s studies, or collecting art. FACULTY:  Eleanor Heartney’s books include Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads and Movements in Modern Art: Postmodernism. Helaine Posner has organized many exhibitions and is the author of Kiki Smith. Nancy Princenthal, a contributing editor to Art in America, is on the faculties of Bard College and New York University. Sue Scott is a curator whose articles have appeared in A rtNews, Art Papers, and Art and Antiques.