Arts & Artists

Michael Taylor, Director, Hood Museum of Art This talk will address the important history and continued vitality of the Artist-in-Residence Program at Dartmouth College. In addition to discussing the works on display in the related exhibition at the Hood, the Hopkins Center, and the Black Family Visual Arts Center, this lecture will also explore the works of public art that visiting artists have made to embellish the campus, beginning with the completion of José Clemente Orozco's mural The Epic of American Civilization in 1934. A reception will follow in Kim Gallery. February 19, 2014 5:00 p.m. Hood Museum of Art Auditorium

The opening celebration for the "In Residence" exhibition begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Loew Auditorium at the Black Family Visual Arts Center, where award-winning architect James Cutler, artist-in-residence at Dartmouth in 2004, will discuss his work with Karolina Kawiaka, Senior Lecturer in Studio Art. We hope that you can join us for what promises to be a magical evening of art and conversation, as many former artists-in-residence return to campus to see their work on display in this much-anticipated exhibition and interact with Dartmouth's students and faculty, as well as Upper Valley community members. 24 January, 2014 4:30-5:30 p.m. Loew Auditorium at the Black Family Visual Arts Center

"One of the benefits of studying arts at Dartmouth," says Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Jodie Mack, "is being able to apply the arts to so many other disciplines on campus. On any given day I could work with an engineer, a musician, a sculptor, or a painter. Under one roof we find harmony together and create together."

Dartmouth announced a slate of special artistic programs and initiatives during the 2012-13 academic year that spotlighted the school's vibrant arts culture and reaffirms its role as one of the nation's leading academic arts communities. This celebration of the arts begun in September 2012 with the inauguration of Dartmouth's new Arts District, comprising the recently completed Black Family Visual Arts Center, as well as the Hood Museum of Art, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts ("the Hop"), both of which are planning expansions and renovations in the coming years. 2012-13 included notable arts programming, including special performances for the Hop's 50th Anniversary Season; the premiere of a new work by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater created with commissioning support from the Hop; campus residencies by artists including the Handspring Puppet Company; a groundbreaking exhibition of Aboriginal art at the Hood Museum; a Best in Show film festival series, which brought organizers and films from the international film festival circuit to Hanover; and many more performances, exhibitions, and arts events. The year was also distinguished by an unprecedented development of arts-related programming by campus organizations and departments not normally affiliated with the arts, underscoring the importance of the arts to our everyday lives. Dartmouth has long been a leading institution championing the integration of the arts into a collegiate setting: from the establishment of one of the nation's first campus-based performing arts centers, to the commissioning of new works and artist-in-residence programs, to the cultivation of a university art collection that ranks among the oldest and largest in the United States. The diverse series of arts programs and initiatives taking place during Dartmouth's 2012-13 year—including programs developed by departments and campus organizations that traditionally operate outside the arts—exemplify this historic commitment to leadership in the arts, while simultaneously establishing Dartmouth as a model for the artistic campus of the 21st century.

Panel: The Challenges, Responsibilities, and Opportunities for Teaching Museums in the Twenty-First Century Moderator Michael Taylor, Director, Hood Museum of Art Panelists: Tina Dunkley, Director, Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries; Jessica Nicoll, Director, Smith College Museum of Art; Jock Reynolds, Henry Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery; John R. Stomberg, Director, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; Sylvia Wolf, Director, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

Panel: Extra-Curricular Student Engagement Moderator Lesley Wellman, Hood Foundation Curator of Education, Hood Museum of Art Panelists: Lisa Herbert Borgsdorf, Managing of Public Programs and Campus Engagement, University of Michigan Museum of Art; Julie McLean, Associate Educator for School and Family Programs, Smith College Museum of Art; Deborah Wilde, Associate Educator for Academic Programs, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Rachel Seligman, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College

Panel: Towards the Ideal Learning Environment Moderator Juliette Bianco, Assistant Director, Hood Museum of Art Panelists: Aine Donovan, Director of the Ethics Institute and Research Associate Professor, Dartmouth College; Dr. David Helfand, Founder and Tutor, Quest University; Chanon (Kenji) Praepipatmongkol, Dartmouth class of 2013; Matthew Battles, senior researcher, metaLAB, Harvard University Respondent: William Crow, Managing Museum Educator, School and Teacher Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, New York University

Welcome remarks by Michael Taylor, Director, Hood Museum of Art Panel: Academic Programming: Defining and Shaping the Profession Moderator: Katherine Hart, Associate Director and Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming, Hood Museum of Art Panelists: Pamela Franks, Deputy Director for Collections and Education, Yale University Art Gallery; Elizabeth Rodini, Director, Program in Museums and Society Teaching Professor, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University; Lesley Wellman, Hood Foundation Curator of Education, Hood Museum of Art

Mary Coffey, associate professor of art history, talks about the history, artistic elements, and legacy of the murals in Baker-Berry Library.

THE MANTON FOUNDATION OROZCO LECTURE James Oles, Senior Lecturer, Art Department, and Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art, Davis Museum, Wellesley College In 1921, Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros called on his fellow artists to "absorb the synthetic energy" of pre-Columbian civilizations while "avoiding lamentable archaeological reconstructions." This lecture explores the diverse ways that muralists envisioned the architecture of ancient American cities in several murals created in the United States in the 1930s, including Orozco's celebrated frescoes at Dartmouth.

Michael Odokara-Okigbo '12 returned to Dartmouth on October 12, 2012 to perform in "Igniting Imagination—A Salute to the Hop's 50 Years!," the star-studded celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Odokara-Okigbo, who gained fame with the Dartmouth Aires last year when the a cappella group reached the 2011 final of NBC's "The Sing-Off," performed in Spaulding Auditorium as part of a cast of hundreds, including singer and actor Jennifer Leigh Warren '77, actor and comedian Rachel Dratch '88, and the show's host, actor and comedian Aisha Tyler. Chidi Anyadike '13, the Office of Public Affairs' Whitney Campbell intern, sat down with Odokara-Okigbo during his campus visit to talk about the performing arts career he's now pursuing in Los Angeles. Odokara-Okigbo, a history major and a former member of the heavyweight crew team, also talks about his Dartmouth mentors, who include Dartmouth College Gospel Choir Director Walt Cunningham Jr. and Department of Theater Senior Lecturer Carol Dunne, with whom he worked as an acting intern at the New London (N.H.) Barn Playhouse in summer 2011.

Morphy, a professor of anthropology and the director of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University, has been in residence as a Montgomery Fellow since September 1. He is teaching a fall term class, Anthropology 50.1: “Form, Context and Meaning in Aboriginal Art,” and will be at Dartmouth through December 20. In this podcast, he talks to Michael Taylor, director of the Hood, about “Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art.”

THE MANTON FOUNDATION OROZCO LECTURE James Oles, Senior Lecturer, Art Department, and Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art, Davis Museum, Wellesley College In 1921, Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros called on his fellow artists to "absorb the synthetic energy" of pre-Columbian civilizations while "avoiding lamentable archaeological reconstructions." This lecture explores the diverse ways that muralists envisioned the architecture of ancient American cities in several murals created in the United States in the 1930s, including Orozco's celebrated frescoes at Dartmouth.

THE DR. ALLEN W. ROOT CONTEMPORARY ART DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIP Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Art History and Fine Arts Director, The Contemporary Project University of Southern California Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and culture that produced them. Here Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early-twentieth-century art and visual culture.

Join collector and donor Will Owen for a fascinating tour of the Crossing Cultures exhibition and learn about his own twenty-year journey into the art and culture of Indigenous Australia.

Michael Taylor, director of the Hood Museum of Art, talks about Ellsworth Kelly's Dartmouth Panels and why the sculpture is perfect for its "canvas" on the Hopkins Center.

J Henry Fair, photographer and environmental activist. Fair is the creator of a photographic series titled Industrial Scars, an aesthetic look at some of our most egregious injuries to the system that sustains us. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and the Hood Museum of Art.

While Phil Lord '97 and Chris Miller '97 were on campus for the Arts at Dartmouth Awards Ceremony on May 29, the 21 Jump Street co-directors screened their film in Spaulding, met with students, and dined at EBA's three times in 24 hours (Phil Lord revealed he alone had had eaten 3-1/2 chicken sandwiches). The filmmakers also sat down to talk about how their Dartmouth liberal arts education is an advantage in Hollywood.

Theodore Levin, Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, presented the annual Faculty Presidential Lecture on Tuesday, February 28. His lecture, entitled "Why Music Matters."

Native American student Kayla Gebeck '12, a Red Lake Ojibwe from Minnesota, is one of the painting subjects of artist Mateo Romero's "The Dartmouth Pow-Wow Suite," which is on display through January 22 at Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art. A double major in linguistics and Native American studies, Gebeck talks in this video about the Hood's exhibit, traditional Anishinaabe dancing, and creating jingle dresses.

In spring 2009, the Hood Museum of Art commissioned Mateo Romero, Class of 1989, to paint a series of ten portraits of current Native American Dartmouth students and alumni as they danced at the College's annual Pow-Wow. He photographed his subjects in May of that year and completed the almost life-sized portraits in 2010, using his signature technique of overpainting the photographic prints. Among those featured in the exhibit are writer Louise Erdrich, Class of 1976.

Professor of Studio Art Esmé Thompson talks about her experience teaching students at Dartmouth College, and shares some details about her upcoming work, which was influenced by a trip to Morocco.

Watch and listen as Tibetan monks from the Namgyal Monastery and Institute of Buddhist Studies measure and draw the outline for a sand mandala on a wooden platform, then use a metal funnels known as chak-purs to lay down colored sand with rhythmic vibrations that make the sand flow out like liquid.

Abstract artist Frank Stella, recipient of the 2009 National Medal of Arts, discusses his interest in the geometry of abstract art and the development of his series of paintings, Irregular Polygons, 1965-66. Stella was at Dartmouth in October for the opening of the Irregular Polygons exhibition at Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art, which runs through March 13, 2011. He was also in residence as a Montgomery Fellow from October 17-24, 2010, meeting with undergraduate studio art and art history students and also participating in a public question-and-answer session.

An interview with comic book artist Bob Oxman for Artworks 2010 at Dartmouth College.

An interview with the all-employee band Company Picnic for Artworks 2010 at Dartmouth College.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discusses his craft, the value of Dartmouth's resources for his film research, and the enduring importance of storytelling. Burns was at Dartmouth in July 2010 for an advance screening of his documentary, Baseball: The Tenth Inning, and also met with undergraduates from the Department of Film and Media Studies.

Mary Flanagan, Professor of Film & Media Studies and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, explains how the PlayCube engages visitors in the physical and cognitive benefits of interactive art.

Karolina Kawaiaka, Sr. Lecturer in Studio Art, demonstrates the power of the new laser cutter purchased in part by funds from the Neukom Institute.

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman considers his art: where it's been, how comics work, what the future might hold. Spielgelman was at Dartmouth in June 2010 for the world premiere of his colloboration with the dance theater group Pilobolus.

When Pilobolus unveils in Moore Theater the world premiere of Hapless Hooligan in "Still Moving," the dance troupe's collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, it will mark a return home of sorts for Michael Tracy '73.

Christo presents a slide program; "Two Works in Progress: Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado; The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates"