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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.
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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.