Dialogues

Lectures, Gallery Talks, and COLLECTION tours

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Gallery Talks
Gallery talks are 45 minutes long. Talks are free and open to the public.

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Lectures on Art
Lectures are one hour, fee $10. Free admission for students.

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Monday, April 20, 10:30-11:30am
Philadelphia, the Athens of America
Elizabeth Anderson, former Curator of Adult and Public Programs, Philadelphia Museum of Art

This lecture touches on the decorative arts, particularly on furniture, silver, and architecture in Philadelphia. Anderson will look at the English painter and architect, Stuart and Revett, and the influence their publication, The Antiquities of Athens, had on late 18th- and early 19th-century Philadelphia.

Monday, April 27, 10:30- 11:30am
Once Upon a Time: Contemporary Art and the Fairy Tale
Jonathan Wallis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art; Chair, Department of Liberal Arts, Moore College of Art and Design

This lecture discusses the recent spate of contemporary art that utilizes fairy tales as agents for artistic exploration and expression. From Peter Callesen’s inhabitable floating castles and Anthony Goicolea’s allegorical portraits, to the bewildering photographs of Alice in Wonderland by Anna Gaskell, this lecture approaches the fairy tale as an artistic “rabbit hole” offering fantastical escape, nostalgic longing, introspection, wonder, and of course, trickery.

Monday, May 11, 10:30- 11:30am
Is Surrealism the Only “Ism”?
Tony Rosati, Professor and Chair of the Printmaking Department, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

From Beaudelaire to Apollinaire; surrealism to Stanley William Hayter, this lecture asks the question, does every “ism” embrace Surrealism? By way of images and concepts, this discussion will cover the first use of the word “Surrealism,” review the ideas set forth by André Breton in the context of the Surrealist Manifesto, and find that a qualification of the concept of Surrealism includes the concept of Automatism and the works of Stanley William Hayter.

Sunday, May 31, 2-3pm
Sculptural Intervention
Paul Hubbard, Fine Arts Chair; Professor Fine Arts: 2D & 3D; Graduate Program Manager, Studio Art, Moore College of Art and Design

Curator of Intention: Nine Philadelphia Sculptors, Paul Hubbard will discuss his choices for the outdoor sculpture exhibition currently on view at Woodmere. The works range from the architectural to the organic, and the mystical to the mythological. He will discuss his own work and processes, and the state of sculpture today.

Monday, June 1, 10:30-11:30am
Art on the Line: A Brief History of Juried Exhibitions
Danielle Rice, Executive Director of the Delaware Art Museum

This illustrated lecture will look at the history of the juried show from the famous Salon exhibitions of the 19th century to the present. We will also examine some of the actions and reactions of artists and viewers to these art world phenomena.

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