Lectures/Symposia

Ethics of Democracy Lecture: One Man's Perspective on Black Art in the New Millennium. A Conversation with Oakland Artist Greg Edwards
Thursday, March 10, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Oakland artist Gregory Edwards will be in conversation with Alexander Nemerov, Chair of the Department of Art & Art History, about the artist's work on race and democracy. The event is part of "The Ethics of Democracy" series. Co-sponsored by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society

Faculty Lecture: “Who We Be: Art, Images & Race in Post-Civil Rights America”
Monday, April 4, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Jeff Chang and Jerome Reyes of Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts discuss Who We Be, the curricular exhibition that Chang guest-curated. The exhibition and class examine visual culture—particularly images in contemporary art, justice movements, and popular culture—to discuss social change and cultural politics in the U.S. over the past half-century. Chang and Reyes discuss the explosion of formal experimentation among artists of color in a context of both progress and backlash. Enter through the main lobby or Diekman (Rodin) Rotunda. Doors open at 5:15 pm.

Franklin panel discussion about Red Horse: Drawings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Contemporary Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Tuesday, April 5, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Panelists take a closer look at two Cantor exhibitions about the Battle of the Little Bighorn and explore the role of indigenous perspectives on this important moment in American and Native American history. The panelists are: Catherine Hale, Phyllis Wattis Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas; JoAllyn Archambault, Director of the American Indian Program at the National Museum of Natural History; Delphine Red Shirt, Lecturer in the Special Languages Program and in Native American Studies; Karen Biestman, Associate Dean and Director of the Native American Cultural Center and Lecturer in Native American Studies; Sarah Sadlier (’16, History, American Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures); and Isabella Shey Robbins (’17, Art History). Supported by the Ruth K. Franklin Fund. Enter through the main lobby or Diekman (Rodin) Rotunda. Doors open at 5:15 pm.

Faculty Lecture: Alexander Nemerov, "Two Americas, One Place: Grandma Moses and Shirley Jackson"
Thursday, April 21, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (a.k.a. Grandma Moses) and Shirley Jackson do not seem to go together. The maker of quaint childlike American scenes and the writer of the infamous short story "The Lottery" give vastly different views of America. Yet Moses and Jackson created their versions of American life within a few miles of one another, in and around the town of Bennington, Vermont, and they reached their greatest fame at the same time (around the year 1950). Alexander Nemerov, himself a native of Bennington, explores the relation between these two American masters. Professor Nemerov is the Chair of the Department of Art & Art History and the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities.

Lecture: Blood in the Sugar Bowl
Wednesday, May 4, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Mellon Curatorial Research Assistant and Art History PhD candidate Rachel Newman discusses her exhibition, which explores sugar manufacturing and consumption at the peak of the sugar trade in the late 18th- and early 19th- centuries. Newman considers works of art depicting everything from sugar’s roots in brutal slave plantations to its final destination, the tables of tea drinkers in Britain. Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Enter through the main lobby or Diekman (Rodin) Rotunda. Doors open at 5:15 pm.

Faculty Lecture: Gail Wight
Thursday, May 5, 5:30 pm, auditorium
Gail Wight, Associate Professor of Art Practice in Stanford's Department of Art & Art History, discusses the role of process in her work. This is part of a series of studio art faculty talks at the Cantor to welcome the Department of Art & Art History to their new home, the McMurtry Building.

Lecture: Myth, Allegory, and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints
Monday, May 9, 5:30 pm auditorium
In “The Rupture: Mannerist Printmaking,” curator Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, Burton and Deedee McMurtry Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, discusses the rise of the Mannerist style in Europe during the early 16th century, which signaled an aesthetic and intellectual break with Renaissance ideals. This talk will closely examine prints and other works by some of the most influential artists represented in Myth, Allegory, and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints in order to explore the broader artistic, social, and political contexts that shaped this international style. Enter through the main lobby or Diekman (Rodin) Rotunda. Doors open at 5:15 pm.

Ethics of Democracy Lecture: Artist Talk by Barbara Kruger
Monday, May 16, 5:30 pm, CEMEX Auditorium, Graduate School of Business, map
Kruger, a renowned American conceptual artist whose work explores consumerism, identity, and sexuality, converses with Alexander Nemerov, Chair of the Department of Art & Art History and the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities. The event is part of "The Ethics of Democracy" series. Co-sponsored by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society