Jeremy Melius (Oxford University), the Michael Ann Holly Fellow in the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program, explores the aesthetic and ethical parameters of John Ruskin's watercolor practice.
Rebecca Szantyr, former curatorial assistant in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, presents an overview of On the Horizon: Art and Atmosphere in the Nineteenth Century. Szantyr looks at the exhibition's major themes and moments and discusses how artists integrated scientific developments with pictorial invention as they depicted atmospheric effects.
Clark-Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin presents an overview of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Grandin shares the rich history of the national library of France’s collections, and how that shaped the selection of works included in the Clark’s exhibition. The drawings on view reveal the medium’s new status as an autonomous and democratic instrument of creation and documentation in France in the eighteenth century.
Artist Arthur Jafa discusses his dynamic practice comprising films, artifacts and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being in the Plonsker Family Lecture Series in Contemporary Art on November 10, 2022.
Heather Hart states: "I’m interested in how we inhabit the world. I’m interested in how we take up space. Audacity. How we feel entitled to it. How that space affects us, effects our navigation, and the way we move through our lives, and how it influences our identity, our sense of self, our interactions with others, or vision of our future. Who is the author of these spaces, might the author change? What is my territory? What is yours? Do they overlap?"
