The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is an art museum on the campus of Auburn University.
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University
Victoria Ashley discusses The Jule Museum with Dr. Randi Evans on “It's All History To Me" Auburn's History Radio Hour, WEGL 91.1 FM. Each week "It's All History To Me" interviews a history professional with the theme of Bridging the Past and Present. From "It's All History To Me" episode 4.2 "The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art with Dr. Randi Evans" originally broadcast on Sep 9, 2024.
Deirdre Madeleine Smith, Ph.D., Lecturer of Museum Studies at University of Pittsburgh and Assistant Curator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, talks about the origins of animal art in conjunction with The Jule's exhibition "Radical Naturalism: Daniel Newman" on view through December 8, 2024: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibition/newman/
Sheri Schumacher talks about “mend WORKwear” a series created for Self-Care Saturdays at The Jule. The “mend WORKwear” sessions focus on the practice and mindfulness of mending using the Japanese Boro tradition as inspiration. Sheri Schumacher is a designer and maker whose creative practice explores narratives about cultural landscapes and records a sense of place through observation and material investigation. Schumacher is Associate Professor Emerita in Interior Architecture at Auburn University.
Rachel Libeskind talks about her exhibition "The Golden Record" at The Jule Museum at Auburn University, on view from August 6-December 7, 2024: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/rachel-libeskind-the-golden-record/
Walter Hood and Taneshia West Albert in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024. Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, 2019 Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, 2019 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the 2021 recipient of the Architectural League's President's Medal Award. Taneshia West Albert is an enthusiastic, award-winning educator and design practitioner in the College of Human Sciences at Auburn. Her research and creative scholarship explore cultural identity, meaning and trauma; diversity and inclusion; and methods to increase intercultural competency in design education and practice. Her design career is focused on design for healthcare environments, corporate interiors and higher education spaces with a unique background in Medical Equipment Planning and Facilities Design and Construction.
Lonnie Holley and Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024. Dr. Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander is curator of the exhibition "Black Codes: Art and Post-Civil Rights Alabama" on view January 23 through July 7, 2024 at The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, featuring the work of Lonnie Holley alongside work by Thornton Dial (1928 – 2016), Ronald Lockett (1965 – 1998) and Joe Minter (b. 1943). Dr. Alexander is the Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Co-Director of the Asian American Art Initiative at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Lonnie Holley (b. Birmingham, AL, 1950) lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; among many others.
Tim Gihring of The Object Podcast from the Minneapolis Institute of Art explores the artist Joe Minter, featured in the exhibition "Black Codes: Art and Post-Civil Rights Alabama" organized by guest curator Dr. Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander for the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. "Thirty-five years ago, Joe Minter received a vision. Soon, his half-acre property outside Birmingham, Alabama, began to fill with sculpture—reflections on everything from slavery to 9/11 to climate change—fashioned out of junk: car parts, toys, industrial detritus, gizmos of all sorts. An elaborate example of the Southern Black tradition of the “yard show," with Minter as its genial showman. Now, it's among the last of its kind, and as museums and collectors come calling, the race is on to determine the fate of Minter's art and how to think about it." https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/black-codes-art-and-post-civil-rights-alabama/
Bethany Collins and Janet Dees in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024. Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, artist Bethany Collins explores histories of the American South through sculpture, song, and the printed word. The third solo exhibition by Collins in her home state, "Bethany Collins: Accord" is on view at The Jule from January 23, 2024 through June 16, 2024. At the Forum, Bethany Collins was recorded in conversation with Janet Dees, the Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
Elizabeth M. Webb and Joy Harjo in conversation at the Auburn Forum for Southern Art and Culture, a symposium organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University on February 3, 2024. Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Elizabeth M. Webb's exhibition "a bearing tree is a witness; an oak is an echo" is currently on view at The Jule as part of the series “Radical Naturalism” through July 7, 2024.
Walter Hood talks about "Ark of Bones" a sculptural installation created for his exhibition "Arc of Life/Ark of Bones" organized by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Inspired by the Henry Dumas short story of the same name, "Ark of Bones" represents ancestral connections to Black Americans. Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. He is also Chair and Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley.
Walter Hood talks about growing up in North Carolina and the way in which he approaches painting in his creative practice. His exhibition "Arc of Life/Ark of Bones" opens on January 23, 2024 at The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. The exhibition features a new series of paintings that recall memories from the first ten years of his life. Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. He is also Chair and Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jim Draper talks about his exhibition “Feral” as part of the series “Radical Naturalism” at The Jule, on view through December 10, 2023. Conversation recorded with Laura Sitterly '23. Draper's work, which includes drawing, painting, photography, video and writing, is informed by journeys into the wilds of Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/radical-naturalism-jim-draper-feral/
What is that wildflower garden at the museum? Auburn scholars Kelly Homan and Zachary Beneduci talk about wildflowers, biochar, and bees and how they connect to a long-term research study happening in the gardens at The Jule. Conversation recorded with Laura Sitterly '23.
Sam Moyer talks about her exhibition "Memory Mine" at The Jule with Laura Sitterly '23. Centering the exhibition on Alabama's richness in natural resources and regional artists' contributions, Moyer creates sculptures and paintings from one natural marble boulder mined in Sylacauga, Alabama. https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/sam-moyer/
Charlotte Hendrix reads excerpts from "The Art Bargain of the Century" an unbelievable saga of how Auburn University purchased 36 controversial masterpieces and opened a world-class art museum for the 21st century, published in the Fall 2023 issue of Auburn Magazine.
Conversation about the project "Indecent Spaces" with Jonah Bokaer, Hala Shah, and Isaiah João at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. "Indecent Spaces" is a project from the creative teams of Jonah Bokaer Choreography, Partner–In–Charge Charles Renfro of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro – DS+R, and Isang Yun, interpreted by violinists Angela & Jennifer Chun. Born in part of the COVID–19 pandemic, Indecent Spaces is a multi–channel performance art and media piece exploring connections between a location's meaning, citizenship and identity in the evolving 21st–century American landscape. Though today's climate may seem to some removed from patriotic origins and idyllic intent, the collaborators' examination reveals forgotten voices and bodily impact ever present through our nation's history — aspirations of a more perfect union, albeit a complex one. http://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/indecent-spaces/
Inspired by commemorative poetry and detailed research, Poetry II students at Auburn University, led by Associate Professor Rose McLarney, produced their own poem in response to the work of sculptors Daniel Chester French and Augustus Saint-Gaudens as well as local monuments. The student poems personify the monuments and juxtapose point of views, encouraging viewers to consider the monuments anew. Their work brings to light issues of gender, race, and constructions of “America.” Listen to all the poems: https://soundcloud.com/thejulemuseum/sets/monuments-and-myths-poetry
Conversation with Jesús Tirado, Assistant Professor of Social Science Education, Elijah Gaddis, Associate Professor of History, Kristen Tordella-Williams, Associate Professor of Art, and Rose McLarney, Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, who discuss their class assignments about monuments in America, produced in response to the exhibition "Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French" on view at The Jule.
Student Guides at The Jule share personal stories inspired by objects currently on view at the museum to celebrate the end of the Spring 2023 semester at Auburn University.
Kevin Brisco Jr. talks about his exhibition “Migratory Roots” an exhibition in the series “Radical Naturalism” at The Jule, on view January 24 through August 7, 2023. Considering homophones roots and routes, "Kevin Brisco: Migratory Roots" explores shared movements, journeys over time and the network that exists among all living things. http://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/radical-naturalism-kevin-brisco-migratory-roots/
Rachel Libeskind talks with Randi Evans about her work included in the exhibition "Invisible Thread" at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, on view from January 24 – May 7, 2023: jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/invisible-thread/
Tony Rodrigues talks about his work included in the exhibition "Invisible Thread" at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, on view from January 24 – May 7, 2023: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/invisible-thread/
Aaron Levi Garvey, Janet L. Nolan Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, talks about the exhibition Surface to Air on view at the Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus in Huntsville, AL. For more information about Huntsville and the exhibition: https://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2022/10/251350-auric-grand-opening.php
Hsuan L. Hsu, Professor of English at UC Davis, in conversation with artist Manon Bellet, alongside Bellet's exhibition "A Swallow Does Not Make a Summer" part of the “Radical Naturalism” series at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, on view August 23 through December 30, 2022: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/radical-naturalism-manon-bellet/
Gamaliel Rodríguez talks about his artwork installed as part of the opening of Auburn's Research and Innovation Campus in Huntsville, Alabama. Opened in October, 2022, the facility features a temporary installation of objects from the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Gamaliel Rodríguez, a U.S. Army veteran who uses felt and ballpoint pens to create photorealistic aerial views of industrial, military and civilian structures, is the first commissioned artist in this cross-campus partnership between the museum and Auburn's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering. https://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2022/10/251350-auric-grand-opening.php
Rick Barot, poet and Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, talks about creative writing, poetry, and ways of reading works of art at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. View the painting "Las Meninas" by Diego Velázquez: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/las-meninas/9fdc7800-9ade-48b0-ab8b-edee94ea877f View work by RaMell Ross: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/spell-ross/
Khalil Kinsey talks about the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection, on view at the Jule Collins Smith Museum at Auburn University from August 23 through December 30, 2022: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/kinsey-collection/
Imani Poole talks about her work as a student in Sneakerheads, a Spring 2022 class at Auburn University, with Charlie Lesh, Associate Professor of English at Auburn. Students in the Sneakerheads course visited the museum to consider sneaker objects made by artist Andy Yoder for his exhibition Overboard: http://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/overboard/ Listen to the entire Sneakerheads episode by Imani Poole at "Knot Your Average Sneakerhead Podcast": https://soundcloud.com/user-113306747-890692607/air-force-1-season-1-episode-5?si=4095f9e429ba44c898bc4e6591287125&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Anila Quayyum Agha talks with Kristen Tordella-Williams about her exhibition "The Weight of Black" (October 8, 2021 – January 2, 2022) at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Visit the museum website to see exhibition images, including a 360 view of the gallery installation: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/anila-quayyum-agha-the-weight-of-black/
How are museums part of cross-disciplinary teaching and learning on campus? Mimi Hellman, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Art History at Skidmore College, discusses strategies that have been successful at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College with Chris Molinski, Director of Education, Engagement and Learning at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University.
Devin Allen in conversation with Ernest L. Gibson, III, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, on April 4, 2022. Presented as part of "Becoming the Beloved Community" at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University in commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. and supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. https://www.becomingthebelovedcommunity.com
Tommy Coleman talks about his exhibition “A New Nature & my problem with the vessel” the first exhibition in the series “Radical Naturalism” at The Jule, on view January 28 through July 26, 2022. https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/coleman/
Elijah Gaddis, Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University, explores a quilt by Catherine Somerville, on loan from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. To see images of the quilt online: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ-Dmy5JZy3/ Visit the museum to see the quilt on view as part of Object Lab, Spring 2022: https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/object-lab/
Kristen Tordella-Williams, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Auburn University, discusses her work in Faculty Exhibition Seven at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, on view January 28 through July 31, 2022. https://jcsm.auburn.edu/exhibitions/faculty-exhibition-seven/
Barb Bondy and Jeffrey Katz talk about their research study “Observational drawing in the brain” at Auburn University. For more information about this research project: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002839322100213X This research project was made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Auburn University and the AU MRI Research Center.
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