Schedule
Schedule
SUNDAY, July 19
3:00 pm Check-in begins for University Center Chicago housing
MONDAY, July 20
8:00 – 9:00 am Institute check-in
9:00 – 12:00 pm Morning coursework
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 pm Afternoon coursework
5:00 – 7:00 pm Welcome Reception
Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery
Midwestern BLAB!
Curated by Monte Beauchamp and Anchor Graphics
This exhibition will focus on the work of 4 artists from the Midwest who have been featured in the pages of BLAB! Edited by Monte Beauchamp BLAB! is an annual anthology that collects the freshest and most unique in cutting-edge comics, illustration, and graphic design. Its contributors come together from all corners of the contemporary art world to push the boundaries of visual culture. This exhibition will showcase the work of Don Colley, Tom Huck, Teresa James, and Fred Stonehouse who share more than simple geography. Their work taps into a dark narrative, that is both savage and beautiful, to present a magical vision of a gothic Midwest. This exhibition is co-curated by Monte Beauchamp and Anchor Graphics @ Columbia College Chicago.
TUESDAY, July 21
9:00 – 12:00 pm Morning coursework
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 pm Afternoon coursework
3:30 - 5:30 pm Afternoon Artist Lecture and Reception
The Social Utility of Portraiture: Practice, Performance & Propriety
Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Art History
This lecture will present a chapter from Dr. Mooney's forthcoming book, Portraits of Noteworthy Character which examines the central role played by portraiture in fostering social mobility in the United States during an era of class, ethnic, and racial tension. Believing that the models provided in portraits could uplift and change society, diverse institutions such as The Chicago Character Guild and the Harmon Foundation launched a multi-tiered educational campaign encouraging African Americans and immigrants from eastern and southern Europe and Mexico to fashion self-images conforming to Anglo American middle-class norms. Examining literary and visual texts in tandem, Dr. Mooney looks to case studies, conduct manuals, photographs and painted portraits that offered the promise of citizenship, equality, and happiness to those who adopted the specified codes of appearance and behavior. Specifically for this lecture, Dr. Mooney will consider the influence of etiquette books written by African American authors who advocated "proper" conduct as a means for achieving social equality, comparing their approaches with those of artists, illustrators and photographers who also subscribed to a larger campaign that promoted an idealized self, constructed to dispel racial stereotypes.
Amy M. Mooney is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art + Design at Columbia College Chicago. Her scholarship and teaching interests focus on identity politics in art and visual culture. Since joining the faculty in 2003, she has engaged students, colleagues, and the Chicago community at large in a number of projects that investigate the ways in which class, race, and gender are visualized. From her contributions to NPR to her curriculum development for Every Art, Every Child, she queries the ways in which art affects social change. Dr. Mooney received her doctorate from Rutgers University in Modern Art History with a specialization in African American art. Her publications include “’Empty Shells and Hollow Forms’: The High Politics of an African American Abstract Paradigm,” in Romare Bearden in the Modernist Tradition (2009), “The Value of Constant Vigilance,” in Rediscovering Chicago Public School’s Murals (2008), Archibald J. Motley, Jr., volume IV of the prestigious David C. Driskell series in African American Art (2004), "Representing Race: Disjunctures in the Work of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.," African Americans in Art (1999), and "Illustrating the Word: Paintings by Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence," The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art (1999). She is a recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
This spring, Dr. Mooney was awarded one of our nation’s most esteemed honors, the Smithsonian Post-Doctoral Fellowship. As part of its mandate for "the increase and diffusion of knowledge," including the diverse ideas, skills, and cultures of our nation, the Smithsonian Institution pursues scholarship like that of Dr. Mooney to promote cultural diversity and awareness. She will have a nine-month appointment in Washington D.C. with full access to resources at the Smithsonian Museums of American Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Museum for African American History and Culture. Additionally, Dr. Mooney will have research privileges at the Archives of American Art and the Library of Congress. Her project, Portraits of Noteworthy Character examines how portraiture played a central role in the realization of social aspirations for migrant and immigrant populations in the United States from the 1880s to the1950s. From our contemporary fascination with Facebook to our cherished photographic archives, Dr. Mooney traces how our notions of self and nation are utilized as a means of social control.
Following the Lecture the Office of Undergraduate Admissions will host a reception in the Admissions Tour Center.
WEDNESDAY, July 22
9:00 – 12:00 pm Morning coursework
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 pm Afternoon coursework
THURSDAY, July 23
9:00 – 12:00 pm Morning coursework
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 pm Afternoon coursework
FRIDAY, July 24
9:00 – 12:00 pm Morning coursework
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 pm Afternoon coursework
5:00 – 7:00 pm Culminating Reception and Gallery Exhibition
Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery
An exhibition of artwork created by participants during the week will be presented in the gallery.
SATURDAY, July 25
10:00 am Check-out ends for University Center Chicago housing
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