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Suzanne Jackson. Apparational Visitations. 1973, Image: 2012. Artstor.
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Timely
- HIAA Prof. Lindsay Caplan Book Launch, February 3rd, 5:30 pm in Rhode Island Hall, 108. Reception to follow. Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy traces the multifaceted practices of these groundbreaking artists and their conviction that technology could provide the conditions for a liberated social life. Learn more.
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Happenings
- Meet the Cogut Institute Fellows, February 2nd, 5:00-6:00 pm, on Zoom. Eric Johnson, HIAA-NAISI Cogut-Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow will be participating in lightning talks that showcase innovative new research emerging at Brown from fellows at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and faculty. Register.
- Rashaad Newsome, Artist Talk, February 8th, 6:00 pm, List 120. Newsome’s work blends several practices, including collage, sculpture, film, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance, to create a field that rejects classification. Learn more.
- HIAA PhD Candidate, Dominic Bate, Pythagorean Visions: Picturing Harmony in British Art, 1719–1753, Virtual, February 10th, 1 pm, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London. Book tickets.
- Dawit Petros, Associate Professor in the Department of Photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, February 23rd, 6:30 pm, Rhode Island Hall, 108. Petros is a visual artist, researcher, and educator. His work is informed by studies of global modernisms, theories of diaspora, and postcolonial studies. Learn more.
- Brown/RISD Dual Degree Student Exhibition “The Witching Hour,” Granoff Center, January 23rd-February 26th. Comprised of artwork by Brown/RISD Dual Degree students, "The Witching Hour" explores themes of magic, mystery, mysticism, myth, rites & rituals, the grotesque, the fantastical, the uncanny, curiosities, and wonder.
- New Podcast: Sensing the Sacred with Finnian M.M. Gerety: HIAA Prof. Holly Shaffer, Grafted Arts. On Sensing the Sacred is a new podcast about the past and present of religion, politics, and society in South Asia from the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Institute at Brown University. Listen now.
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Opportunities for Undergraduate Students
- Voss Undergraduate Research Fellowships Applications due February 17th. Voss Fellowships are the premier training and funding opportunities for undergraduates interested in environmental research at Brown, offering awardees a large stipend, plus additional funds for related expenses. Learn more.
- Thomas Cole National Historic site 2023-24 Fellowship Applications Open. A one-year, full-time residential research fellowship. Selected Fellows get to live and work at the historic artist's site and museum from June 6, 2023-May 28, 2024. Learn more and apply.
- Apply to be a staff columnist at the Brown Daily Herald during the Spring semester. As a columnist, you would write an argumentative column of around 800-1200 words every two weeks. You can find the application here.
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Opportunities for Graduate Students
- HIAA Roundtable: Grad students are urged to attend a Graduate Conference Workshop, February 2nd, 12:00 pm, List 423
- Eighteenth Annual Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium Papers Due January 31. This year's theme is "Belonging," and the keynote speaker is Professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis from Harvard University. Submit an abstract of no more than 350 words, along with a CV, to americanist.symposium@gmail.com.
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What are we looking at this week?
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Illustration for Coyote & Crow: Stories of the Free Lands Roleplaying Game by Connor Alexander (Cherokee Nation), by Jennifer S. Lange
This week we are looking at an image related to the course HIAA1625, Native American Architecture, taught by a new member of the department, Eric Johnson. Professor Johnson comes to us as an HIAA-NAISI Post-Doctoral Fellow.
Combining archaeological, ethnographic, archival, and oral-historical sources, HIAA1625 exposes the erasure of Native Americans from architectural history and celebrates the diversity and complexity of Indigenous built environments.
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