Continuing Education Opportunities
Summer Learning Opportunity: the Kemper Collection
For those interested in learning more about the collection of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, we are currently forming a special educational program this summer.
This program will provide a unique opportunity to explore works in the Museum's permanent collection across a range of periods and styles. It will also examine the history and development of the collection at Washington University--paying special attention to the formation of the collection of modern art during the 1940s under curator H. W. Janson.
As part of this program, we will also be taking a close look at two special exhibitions on display during the summer: The Barbizon School and the Nature of Landscape, which will highlight the Museum's rich collection of nineteenth-century landscape painting, and an installation of work by nineteenth-century sculptor Harriet Hosmer. Participants in this learning program will spend time in the permanent collection galleries, engaging with and discussing works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, George Caleb Bingham, and Thomas Eakins, among others.
Dates: Wednesdays, June 18, June 25, July 2, and July 9
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Location: Kemper Art Museum
To Register: Contact Michael Murawski at 314-935-7918 or murawski@wustl.edu
Interested in learning more about this new summer educational program?
Contact Michael Murawski at murawski@wustl.edu or 314.935.7918.
University College Short Course
Fall 2008
Looking at Modern Art
This University College short course will explore multiple ways of looking at and engaging with works of modern art, while critically reflecting on this process. Along with visits to see works at local art institutions, the class will meet with guest speakers to engage in dialogues about modern art and the various ways in which we can approach it. During the class, students will also read and discuss selected artists' writings as well as recent texts on "looking at art," and will view one film. This class is for anyone with an enthusiasm for art and a desire to experience and think about modern art in new and different ways.
Instructor: Michael Murawski, PhD, Coordinator of Education & Public Programs
Dates: Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 1, Nov 8: 10:00 am - noon
Locations: Kemper Art Museum and Saint Louis Art Museum
To register call 314.935.6720 or visit http://ucollege.wustl.edu/howtoreg.php
New Media Workshops
The Kemper Art Museum is featuring an ongoing education program to complement the Museum's focus on new media art and digital aesthetics. This series of workshops and conversations is designed to explore the what, why, who, and how of new media, technology, and art--for those with little or no previous experience. Through each workshop, participants will engage in a dialogue with curators, artists, or guest speakers about particular themes, questions, and developments in new media art.
Spring 2008 Workshops are scheduled for March 19 and April 16. See the Workshops page in the Calendar section for details.
Advance registration is requred; click here to RSVP.
