AIB Fine Arts Blog

 

AIB Discourses is proud to present its Fall Semester panel discussion.  This panel discussion will explore the impact of digital technologies on the visual arts.  Please encourage your students to attend:


WHO: Panelists include Ben Sloat (AIB) and Meredith Hoy (UMass Boston)
WHAT: "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Production"
WHERE: Room 215 (700 Beacon)
WHEN: Friday, September 30th (1:00-3:00)
WHY: An Afternoon of Dialogue, Debate, and Discourse

** Refreshments will be served.

AIB Discourses is proud to present an ongoing series of panel discussions
focusing on contemporary art and visual culture.  This program is organized
by Stuart Steck (Department of Art History and Critical Studies).

If you have questions or would like to propose a panel, please feel free to contact Stuart Steck at ssteck@aiboston.edu

Community of Scholars Day

Wednesday, March 30, is the third Community of Scholars Day.  The regular schedule of classes is replaced with a day of presentations, panels, poster sessions, and performances, highlighting the inquiry and scholarship of Lesley faculty, students, staff, and alums.  The Lesley website has an article on the home page about this day, and the schedule can be found at lesley.edu/scholars.

A full range of presentations are offered at 4, 5:15, and 6:30, of particular relevance to graduate and adult learning students.  It's a very special day for students to engage in learning in a conference-like setting!



Fine Arts Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Damon Lehrer

Friday, February 18th

12:30pm – 2:00pm in room 216

 

The Art Institute of Boston

700 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02215

AIB Fine Arts Visiting Artists Lecture Series Presents:

Breon Dunigan

Friday, November 5th at 12:30 pm
Room 215, 700 Beacon Street

AIB Visiting Artist Lecture: Matthew Rich

Attention AIB Students, Faculty, and Staff:

Matthew Rich, one of this year’s finalists for the prestigious Foster Prize awarded by the ICA, will be the first Fine Arts Visiting Artists Lecture Series speaker of the semester. 

Friday, October 8th at 12:30 pm in room 215 of 700 Beacon Street.
 

AIB Visiting Artist Lecture Series for Fall 2010

Thursday, October 7 - Photographer Bruce Davidson

Brooklyn Gang, 1959

7pm, Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
 In collaboration with The Photographic Resource Center
 
Davison is a graduate of RIT and Yale University, where he studied with Joseph Albers, among others.  He is internationally known for his photos documenting East 100 Street in NYC, Brooklyn Gang, and the Civil Rights Movement.  His exhibits have included the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
 
 
Tuesday, November 9 – Producer and Academy Award nominee Don Hahn

 
          
3:15 pm, Room 215, 700 Beacon Street – presentation: Why We Create.         
            
7pm, Marran Theater, 34 Mellen Street, Cambridge
 
Screening of Hand Held, a documentary film produced by Hahn about the Romanian children’s AIDS crisis in the early 1990s and chronicled by photographer Mike Carroll. Following the overthrow of the Communist regime in that country, Carroll photographed the crisis and the lives of these children over the next 20 years.  Carroll will be in attendance as well.
 
 
Friday, November 19 – Multi-media artist Ann Hamilton

indigo blue, 1991/2001

7pm, Marran Theater, 34 Mellen Street, Cambridge
 
Hamilton is well known for her complex and layered works of installations, photographs, videos, performances, and sculptural objects.  She was awarded the MacArthur “genius” grant in 1993 and represented the US at the 1999 Venice Biennale.  Her work has been shown at MassMOCA and the Museum of Modern Art, among many other major museums.