Jill Dolan
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall Carnegie Mellon University
Presented by the Department of English and the School of Drama
Abstract: This lecture addresses the status of American feminist theatre criticism, and its tendency to denigrate at best, or ignore, at worst, women playwrights working in popular forums like Broadway or regional theatres. While much feminist theatre criticism of the 1980s and 90s privileged experimental, avant-garde forms produced by artists marginalized by gender, sexuality, race, and class, it paid little attention to women trying to make their way through more conventional, mainstream theatre and performance venues. This lecture argues that the next wave of feminist theatre and performance criticism should take the popular more seriously, by rethinking the achievements, vexations, and public intellectual work of women working in artistic venues under the auspices of what might be called neo-liberal culture.
Bio: Jill Dolan holds the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama and heads the MA/PhD program in performance as public practice at the University of Texas at Austin where she is a member of the Distinguished Teaching Academy. Her most recent book, Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, is available from University of Michigan Press (2005). She is a past president of both the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and its Women and Theatre Program. She is the author of Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance (Wesleyan University Press); Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Michigan); and The Feminist Spectator as Critic (Michigan). Samples of her essays include Feminist Performance and Utopia: A Manifesto, in Staging International Feminisms, eds. Elaine Aston and Sue-Ellen Case (Palgrave, 2007, forthcoming) and the Foreword to Cast Out: Queer Lives in the Theater, ed. Robin Bernstein, Triangulations Series (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Her book on performance and utopia allows her to pose such questions as, Does live performance remain a site at which utopia can be imagined and perhaps even experienced, affectively, through fantasy and communitas? Prof. Dolans blog, The Feminist Spectator, can be accessed at www.feministspectator.blogspot.com
Plan now for Spring 2009 classes Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk Exhibit at Posner Center, JanuaryMarch 2009 Satan Leads the Ball, 1942 Traveling exhibit featuring the art of Arthur Szyk on World War II | The Jewish Response | The Meaning of America Arthur Szyk was a Polish Jew who came to the United States in 1940 and used his art to work against injustice and oppression. Szyks powerful satiric images mobilized others against Nazism, racism, and other injustices. His style used Polish folk idioms combined with the bright colors and intricate details of illuminated manuscript miniaturists.
JUSTICE ILLUMINATED: The Art of Arthur Szyk This traveling exhibit from The Arthur Szyk Society supports curricula in art, art history, aesthetics, American history, modern European history, World War II studies, Holocaust studies, Slavic studies, Jewish studies, ethnic studies, and political science. Exhibit overview http://www.szyk.org/szykonline/
A study guide is available. Contact Mary Kay Johnsen, Special Collections Librarian, mj0g@andrew.cmu.edu, 268-6622
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Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Announces Ceramic Shows & Events
Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh Center for the Arts presents several ceramic events, beginning with a reception held on Thursday, March 20 from 5:00 to 8:00pm, for the Regional Student Juried Exhibition (through March 22), a program of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference. At 7:00pm that same evening there will be a dedication ceremony featuring internationally renowned raku artist, Paul Soldner, for the newly completed Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Gordon Pavilion on the PCA campus. There will also be a raku firing demonstration at the ceremony. Both events are open to the public. There is a $5 suggested donation; free to PF/PCA members.
On view March 14 April 13: Earth and Fire presented by Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Think dirty muddy clay! This exhibition will include work in varied media from AAP members related to earth and fire.
On view four days only, during the annual NCECA conference being held in Pittsburgh, March 19 22:
Material Translations: Pinch, Slab, Coil Three sculptors, Judit Varga, Laurel Lukaszewski, and Elizabeth Kendall re-interpret traditional hand building techniques of pinch, coil and slab. The high fired unglazed stoneware and porcelain constructions occupy a variety of environments whether on the wall, on the floor or suspended in space. In building multifaceted compositions that suggest landscape and architecture, the artists explore rhythm and movement, line and volume. They create and invite conversations through comparison of process and juxtaposition of diverse yet complimentary forms.
BackTalk This contemporary ceramics show* brings together four Canadian artists responding to ceramic convention and histories. While they fully respect the history of their craft, they also wish to investigate and challenge the growth and evolution of their field, operating within the fertile middle ground between awareness and destruction of tradition. The work in this exhibit represents a range of subtle, irreverent, thoughtful, and bratty re-workings of ceramic tradition. Ceramic artists: Carole Epp, Michael Flaherty, Shannon Isfeld, and Lia Tajcnar; curators: Robin Lambert and Nicole Burisch. *This show is held in the 2D Studio in PCAs Scaife building.
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