Sentences with phrase «american visual studies»

(The exhibition is being sponsored by the Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University and the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at the Norman Rockwell Museum.)

The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies is the nation's first research institute devoted to the art of illustration.

Not exact matches

A simple method of testing «twilight vision» gives reliable results in identifying people who have decreased visual acuity under low light conditions, according to a study in the May issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

Now some studies have shown that the differences are likely cultural: the Müller - Lyer visual illusion, which shows two lines of equal length where one is often perceived, at least by American undergrads, as longer than the other, is actually not an illusion at all for the San foragers of the Kalahari.

However, a new study conducted at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, demonstrates high levels of undiagnosed anxiety and depression persisting in patients receiving treatment, despite their improved visual outcomes.

A physically active lifestyle and occasional drinking are associated with a reduced risk of developing visual impairment, according to a study published online this month in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

The presence of myopia, or nearsightedness, significantly affects the muscles used in focusing the lens of the eye — a finding with important implications for the development of «accommodating» implanted intraocular lenses (IOLs) that can adjust to different visual distances, reports a study in the January issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

This increase was found in the Chinese American study participants with Type II diabetes who had cataracts or macular edema resulting in visual impairments.

But they also establish «The Insider» as a study in American light and space, a primarily visual ode to the essential strangeness and loneliness of American life.

This story about two abattoir workers who discover they share the same dream every night is both an offbeat romance and a sensitive study of autism, with a distinct visual sensibility that has been acknowledged with a nomination from the American Society of Cinematographers.

She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Each part of the visual is based on a different study or article, giving a comprehensive look at how Americans read nowadays.

Kelly Lloyd earned her BA from Oberlin College where she double majored in Studio Art (with Honors) and African - American Studies and minored in Environmental Studies, and is currently in her final year of a 3 year dual M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies and M.F.A. in Painting & Drawing at SAIC.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

Select Group Exhibitions 2017 Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2017 Buffalo in the American Living Room, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2017 All That Glitters, work on display in contemporary galleries at St. Louis Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift, Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM

She also studied under the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (2010 — 2011) and was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow for visual arts at the American Academy in Berlin (2013 — 2014).

This week new exhibition openings included «Julie Mehretu: Hoodnyx, Voodoo, and Stelae» at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York; «30 Americans» at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington State; and «Willie Cole: On Site» at The David Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Art and Culture of African American and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Leo Valledor (1935 - 1989), a Filipino American artist who grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, studied Abstract Expressionism at the California School of Fine Arts (currently, San Francisco Art Institute) and was part of the «Beat» scene — the cross cultural and dynamic fusion of visual art, jazz music and poetry.

Native American Masterpieces from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection is co-organized by Christine Giuntini, Conservator, and James Doyle, Assistant Curator, both in the Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at The Met, with consultation from Pollyanna Nordstrand, History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University.

2008 Law and Visual Resistance: Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Politics, South Asian Bar Association, NY Impossible Archives, Kevorkian Center for middle Eestern Studies, New York University riDYKEulous: The Odds Are Against Us, PS1MOMA, NY Gelman Studio Lecture, Columbia University, NY «Visual Ignition», Visiting Artist Lecture, American University, Washington, DC California College of Arts, Visiting Artist Lecture, San Francisco, CA

She received her Ph.D. in American Studies at New York University and her MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University where she studied with Sanford Biggers and met mentor Joan Jonas.

She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University and her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.

In this study Ellen G. Landau charts the influence on Mexican visual arts on four American modern artists: Philip Guston (1913 — 1980), Robert Motherwell (1915 — 1991), Isamu Noguchi (1904 — 1988), and Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956).

2012 African American Art in the 20th Century, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH After Tanner: African American Artists since 1940, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA... On Paper, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH INsite / INchelsea, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

From her earliest series, for which she responded to the deteriorating urban environments of New York and New Jersey in the 1970s, to her later works, which intertwine with oral history to excavate African American social life in rural communities of the American Southeast, Buchanan undertook a deep, empirically driven study of architecture in visual art.

Her research is situated at the intersection of literary studies, studies of contemporary visual arts and aesthetics, and the study of leftist political and social movements, bringing together contemporary U.S. Latino / a and Latin American cultural production within a hemispheric framework.

Member American Institute for Video and Film, Visual Studies Workshop, Film / Video Arts, Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.

A respected historian of African American art, Driskell is a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, where the David C. Driskell Center focuses on the study of the visual arts and culture of African Americans and the African diaspora.

Tarek Abou El Fetouh (curator) John Akomfrah (artist and filmmaker) Rheim Alkadhi (artist) Noora Al Mualla (Curator of Modern Arab Art, Sharjah Art Foundation) Monira Al Qadiri (artist) Hoor Al Qasimi (Director, Sharjah Art Foundation) Saira Ansari (Researcher, Sharjah Art Foundation) Rasheed Araeen (artist) Marwa Arsanios (artist) Mohammad Ali Atassi (Director, Bidayyat) Sarnath Banerjee (artist, writer and graphic novelist) Daniel Blanga Gubbay (Researcher and Curator, Aleppo.eu) Yaminay Chaudhri (artist and Co-founder, Tentative Collective) Ali Cherri (artist) Manuel de Rivero (Co-founder, Supersudaca) Manthia Diawara (University Professor and Director, Institute of African American Affairs, New York University) Mona El Mousfy (Founder and Managing Director, SpaceContinuum) Shilpa Gupta (artist) Ayesha Hameed (artist and Lecturer, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College) Dale Harding (artist) Salah Hassan (Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University) Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (artist) Saba Innab (artist and architect) Eungie Joo (Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) Butheina Kazim (Co-founder, Cinema Akil) Maha Maamoun (artist) Ahmed Mater (artist) Almagul Menlibayeva (artist) Sally Mizrachi (Co-founder, lugar a dudas) Naeem Mohaiemen (artist) Paribartana Mohanty (artist) Aram Moshayedi (Curator, Hammer Museum) Hania Mroué (Founder and Director, Metropolis Art Cinema) Neo Muyanga (composer and musician) Zeynep Öz (curator) Claudia Pagès (artist) Sharmini Pereira (Founder and Director, Raking Leaves) Filipa Ramos (Co-curator, Vdrome) Uzma Rizvi (Associate Professor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute) Abir Saksouk (Architect, Public Works) Larissa Sansour (artist) Mario Santanilla (artist) Zineb Sedira (artist) Wael Shawky (artist) Reem Shilleh (Co-founder, Subversive Film) Martine Syms (artist) Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Co-founder, Atelier Bow - Wow) Alper Turan (Co-founder, DAS Art Project) Deepak Unnikrishnan (writer) Antonio Vega Macotela (artist) Hajra Waheed (artist) Ala Younis (artist and curator)

American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex body of work which masterfully weaves together visual influences ranging from the Renaissance to modernism with principles of rhythm and improvisation drawn from his study of African cultures and American jazz.

Her specialty is African - American and modern and contemporary African art history / visual culture and gender studies.

An educator, art historian, and artist, she collaborated to develop the Department of Afro - American Studies (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. minor, and certificate programs), as well as to expand curricula in Gender & Women's Studies and African Studies, and to institute Visual Culture as a discipline at the University.

Organized by Melissa Johnson (Associate Professor, Art History and Visual Culture) and Juliet Lynd (Associate Professor, Spanish and Latin American Studies)

2010 William T. Williams: Variations on Themes, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

2012 Blues for Smoke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Narrative of African American Art and Identity, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Convergence: Jazz, Films and the Visual Arts, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, MA African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH Magical Visions: Ten Contemporary African American Artists, University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2012 African American Art in the 20th Century, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC After Tanner: African American Artists since 1940, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA To be a Lady: Forty - five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH INsite / INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2009 Sound: Print: Record: African American Legacies, University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland College Park, MD Highlights from The David C. Driskell Center Permanent Collection, The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Her writing has appeared in several publications including catalogue essays for the Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), and El Museo del Barrio, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Nexus, Review, the journal of the Americas Society, NYFA Quarterly, BOMB and American Art.

Born and raised outside of Washington D.C., Kelly Lloyd earned her BA from Oberlin College where she double majored in Studio Art (with Honors) and African - American Studies and minored in Environmental Studies, and is currently in her final year of a 3 year dual M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies and M.F.A. in Painting & Drawing at SAIC.

This unique field - study program used visual and performing arts to develop cross-cultural understanding, critical thinking, and a foundation for better understanding of both American and Malian culture.

Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and an Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, she has also received a National Endowment for the Visual Arts grant, a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation for a residency at the Bellagio Study Center, and The Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome.

A Fulbright Scholar to Chile in 2006, Munsell holds a BA in International Letters and Visual Studies from Tufts University, minor in Latin American Studies, and a Masters in Cultural Studies from the Universidad de Chile.

Leo Valledor (1935 - 1989), an Asian American artist who grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, studied Abstract Expressionism at the California School of Fine Arts (currently, San Francisco Art Institute) and was part of the «Beat» scene — the cross cultural and dynamic fusion of visual art, jazz music and poetry.

About Leo Valledor: Leo Valledor (1935 - 1989), a Filipino American artist who grew up in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, studied Abstract Expressionism at the California School of Fine Arts (currently, San Francisco Art Institute) and was part of the «Beat» scene — the cross cultural and dynamic fusion of visual art, jazz music and poetry.

Sponsored by the museum's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the discussion was about African American art in 20th century Washington.

The Creative Currents Summer Artist Residency attracts a diverse and talented set of individuals interested in the visual, literary, and performing arts and cultures of Africa and the Black Diaspora, ethnographic and anthropological research, Spanish and Latin American Studies, and responsible and ethical tourism.

2012 LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945 - 1980: From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from The David C. Driskell Center, organized by Smithsonian Institute of Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH Breaking in Two: Provocative Visions of Motherhood, Santa Monica Art Center, Santa Monica, CA Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, FL Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY From Nothing to SOMEthing: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA To be a Lady: Forty - five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD African American Visions: Selections from the Samella Lewis Collection, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Baila Con Duende: Group Art Exhibition, Watts Towers Art Center, Watts, CA We the People, Robert Rauschenberg Project Space, New York, NY The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA INsite / INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

She has received numerous significant honors and awards, including: a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts / NEA Individual Artist Grant, Nexus Press Artist Book Project Award, Visual Studies Artist Book Project Residency Grant, The American Antiquarian Society's William Randolph Hearst Fellowship, a YADDO Fellow, Women's Studio Workshop Residency Grant, Connecticut Commission of the Arts Artist Grant, as well as a Connecticut Book Award Illustration Nominee.

Selected Grants: American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Fellowship in Visual Arts; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

American Film Institute Conservatory Bard College Brooklyn College California College of the Arts California Institute of the Arts Claremont Graduate University Columbia University, School of the Arts, Visual Arts Division Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Department of Art, M.F.A. Program Cranbrook Academy of Art Harvard University Hunter College (CUNY), Department of Art MIT, Visual Arts Program New York Academy of Art New York University, Tisch School of Art, Film Program New York University, Tisch School of Art, Interactive Telecommunications Program Pratt Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Mason Gross School of the Arts School of the Art Institute of Chicago School of Visual Arts Skowhegan The Core Program at The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Glasgow School of Art The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Tyler School of Art University of California Los Angeles University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Diego University of Michigan, School of Art and Design University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Yale University School of Art