Fairfield University Art Museum Fall 2021 Programs

FALL 2021 PROGRAMS

The art is live…the programs are virtual HOURS Bellarmine Hall Galleries Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Walsh Gallery Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

All programs will be live-streamed (unless indicated). Recordings will be available on our website and YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

CARRIE MAE WEEMS: THE USUAL SUSPECTS September 18 - December 18, 2021 Carrie Mae Weems is asking probing questions about humanity, about representation, and about power with these photographic and video works. She focuses on the humanity denied in recent killings of black men, women, and children by police, and directs our attention to the constructed nature of racial identity—specifically, representations that associate black bodies with criminality.

Friday, September 17, 6 p.m.

Opening Conversation: Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects†

Courtney Taylor, Curator Carrie Mae Weems, All the Boys (Profile 1), 2016, archival pigment and Director of Public mounted on gesso board. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery Programs, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, and Dalila Scruggs, PhD, Educator and Curator, Brooklyn Museum Monday, October 4, 7 p.m.

Film Screening: Black Art: In the Absence of Light (HBO, 2021)* BCC, Oak Room

Tuesday, October 19, 5 p.m.

Virtual Tour: Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects Dalila Scruggs, PhD, Educator and Curator, Brooklyn Museum

All programs will be live-streamed (unless indicated). Recordings will be available on our website and YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

Thursday, October 28, 7 p.m.

Workshop: The Art of Perception: Look Closely to Save a Life*

Amy Herman, founder of The Art of Perception® Kelley Theater, Quick Center for the Arts Co-sponsored by #UNLOAD Foundation

Wednesday, November 3, 5 p.m.

Lecture: An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States Kyle T. Mays, Assistant Professor, History, UCLA

Co-sponsored by the American Studies and Black Studies programs

Monday, November 8, 5 p.m.

Lecture: Oral History and the African-American Experience Tamara Lanier, activist

† Part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation * This event will be held in person. University guidelines apply.

Carrie Mae Weems, All the Boys (Blocked 3), 2016, archival pigment and silkscreen mounted on gesso board. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery

All programs will be live-streamed (unless indicated). Recordings will be available on our website and YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

ROBERT GERHARDT: MIC CHECK September 18 - December 18, 2021 Photojournalist and writer Robert Gerhardt documented Black Lives Matter protests in New York City over the last seven years. This remarkable body of work includes photographs of protests from 2014 through 2021, across New York, in massive crowds, in rain and sun, during night and day, in motion during marches and stationary during speeches, and in the past year in the midst of a global pandemic.

Thursday, October 7, 5 p.m.

Gallery Talk: Robert Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt, Protestors Marching through Times Square on the 5th Anniversary of the Death of Michael Brown, Times Square, New York City, August 9, 2019, silver gelatin print. Courtesy of the artist

All programs will be live-streamed (unless indicated). Recordings will be available on our website and YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

ROBERTO LUGO: NEW CERAMICS September 18 - December 18, 2021 Self-described “ghetto potter” Roberto Lugo uses porcelain, a medium traditionally reserved for the wealthy, to explore inequality and racial and social justice. His work often takes familiar shapes drawn from European and Asian ceramic traditions,but their hand-painted surfaces take inspiration from street art and feature contemporary iconography, including celebrations of Black and Latino figures.

Tuesday, September 21, 5 p.m.

Gallery Talk: Roberto Lugo Wednesday, September 29, 5 p.m.

Lecture: Radical Vessels: History and the Pottery of Roberto Lugo Andrew Davenport, PhD candidate, Georgetown University, and Public Historian, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Thursday, October 14, 11 a.m.

Art in Focus: Roberto Lugo, Vengo dal Ghetto: AOC, 2020, glazed ceramic

Michelle DiMarzo, Curator of Education and Academic Engagement

Roberto Lugo, Vengo dal Ghetto: AOC, 2020, glazed ceramic. Photography by Dominic Episcopo courtesy of Wexler Gallery

All programs will be live-streamed (unless indicated). Recordings will be available on our website and YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

OTHER EVENTS Thursday, September 23, 3 p.m.

Lecture: The Faces of 9/11: Portraits of Heroes Joe McNally, artist

Presented in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences as part of the Fairfield University 9/11 20th Anniversary Programs

Thursday, September 23, 5 p.m.

Lecture: Conserving the Artifacts at the 9/11 Museum and Memorial †* Lisa Conte, Chief Conservator, 9/11 Museum and Memorial Kelley Theater, Quick Center for the Arts

Presented in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences as part of the Fairfield University 9/11 20th Anniversary Programs

Wednesdays, October 6, 13, and 20, 11 a.m.

Subscription Lecture Series: Titian: Early Mythologies to Late Poesie Fiona Garland

$100 members / $120 non-members

Titian, The Rape of Europa, 1562, oil on canvas. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

All free programs will be streamed on www.thequicklive.com and recordings made available on our website and YouTube channel. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

Open VISIONS Forum Wednesday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture: Jewish Art, Music, and Cultural Contributions in the Renaissance Piergabriele Mancuso, PhD, Director of the Eugene Grant Research Program on Jewish History and Culture, Medici Archive Project, Florence Co-sponsored with the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies

Tuesday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.

24th Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture: Black Voters Matter: Our Obligation to Democracy and Equality LaTosha Brown, founder of Black Voters Matter Sponsored by the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies through the generosity of the Frank Jacoby Foundation (maintained by Debby and David Zieff)

Wednesday, November 17, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture: How to Recognize Fascist Style in Art & Propaganda: 1922 through Today Luciano Cheles, PhD, Visiting Lecturer in Italian Studies, Université de Poitiers Co-sponsored with the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies

All programs will be live-streamed (unless indicated). Recordings will be available on our website and YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

ART IN FOCUS Thursdays, 11 a.m., with Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo September 23

Utagawa Kunimaru, The Courtesan Sumanoura with Attendant, 19th century, color woodblock print October 14

Roberto Lugo, Vengo dal Ghetto: AOC, 2020, glazed ceramic November 18

Sears Gallagher, Bedouin Warrior, 1896, watercolor on paper December 16

Benedetto da Maiano, Madonna and Child, plaster cast after marble original of ca. 1460

Utagawa Kunimaru, The Courtesan Sumanoura with Attendant, 19th century, color woodblock print. Gift of James Reed, 2019.03.262

All programs will be live-streamed (unless indicated). Recordings will be available on our website and YouTube channel. All times are Eastern Standard. To register, visit fuam.eventbrite.com

Art Workshops

Tuesdays, 5 p.m., with Museum Educator Kate Wellen November 2, 5 p.m.: Drawing from Observation December 14, 5 p.m.: De-Stress with Doodling

Mindfulness and Meditation

Mondays, 4 p.m., with certified mindfulness and meditation teacher Jackie DeLise September 27 October 18 November 15 December 6

Family Days

Select Saturdays YouTube tutorial videos and art kits available for pick-up by registered participants October 16: Art in Ancient Egypt November 13: Gold and Gilded: Italian Art December 11: Color + Clay Egyptian, Statue of Horus, 760-30 BCE, bronze. Lent by the Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of David Dows, Ph.B. 1908 (1945.170), L2020.05.10

OTHER RESOURCES fairfield.edu/museum Visit our website to: • browse our collections online • catch-up on past lectures and events on our YouTube channel • find coloring pages and kids’ activities • check out our on-campus sculpture map

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FairfieldUniversityArtMuseum Cover: Roberto Lugo, Peaceful Protesters: Nina Simone I and Texture Study II, 2021.

Photography by Megan Tranauskas courtesy of Wexler Gallery