Sixth Annual Graduate Student Symposium In The History Of Art

The College of Arts and Sciences at American University and the Art Departments of American University and the George Washington University invite you to attend the Sixth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in the History of Art. Free and open to the public.
Schedule:
9:00-9:30.... Continental Breakfast
9:30-12:30. Welcome and Morning session
Faye Gleisser (GWU), "Towards a New American Unconscious: Abstract Expressionism, Advertising, and the Rise of Consumer Culture"
Gwen Van Ostern (AU), "Kendall Geers: Politics, Ideology, and the Use Of Violence"
Ellie Pinzarrone (AU), "The Re-Creation of Memory as Practice of Resistance: Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, and Carrie Mae Weems"
Helen MacDiarmid (AU), "May Stevens' Big Daddy Series: Feminist Art And American Social Realism"
.12:30-1:30. Lunch (box lunches will be provided)
1:30-4:00.... Afternoon session
Gretchen Martin (AU), "Isabel Bishop's Women: Public Versus Private Personas"
Patricia Quealy (GWU), "The Use of Water as Propaganda by Cosimo I and Eleonora"
Chesnee Klein (GWU), "A Painter and a Patron: David Teniers the Younger's Gallery Paintings of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm's Collection"
Menachem Wecker (GWU), "Pinning the Kabbalistic Tail on Blake"
Please see Katzen Visiting for location and parking.
Location: Katzen Arts Center, Rm 201