IDSVA Symposium: Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization & Print Edition

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IDSVA ANNOUNCES SECOND ANNUAL HARLEM SYMPOSIUM:

ART, ETHNICITY, and GLOBALIZATION

Gathering of Internationally Renowned Artists and Scholars

The INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE VISUAL ARTS announces its Second Annual Harlem Symposium. Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization will be held January 7-8 at the Harlem Studio Museum, 144 West 125 Street, Harlem and at other locations.

The IDSVA symposium takes up the question of art, ethnicity, and globalization in the context of Harlem’s past and future as an international center for the arts and culture. Major speakers include Robert Steele, Executive Director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, University of Maryland; John Rajchman, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, author of The Deleuze Connections (MIT 2000); Liam Gillick, represented in the Venice Biennale, 2009, and currently exhibiting “Three perspectives and a short scenario” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and symposium guest of honor, Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of Literature, Yale University, and author of Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (U of California P, 1996)

According to IDSVA president George Smith, “Harlem’s ongoing development as a cosmopolitan art site is about art and culture worldwide. The symposium underscores Harlem’s ever emerging identity as an intensely global phenomenon.”

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If you’d like more information about this event, or to schedule an interview with George Smith, please call Amy Curtis at 207 879 8757 or email Amy at acurtis@idsva.org.

THE INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE VISUAL ARTS provides doctoral studies in philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory to visual artists. Study includes residencies in Tuscany, Venice, Paris, NYC, and at Brown University, plus online instruction.

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ANNOUNCING THE DAVID C. DRISKELL FELLOWSHIP and PRINT OFFER

Our recent IDSVA reception honoring David Driskell celebrated David’s solo print exhibition, Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell, which opened at the Portland Museum of Art on October 29 and runs through January 17.

IDSVA has been especially fortunate to have Professor Driskell as a member of our distinguished Visiting Faculty. Last January, David was Speaker of Honor at our Harlem symposium on “Art, Ethnicity, and Globalization.” In June, David joined our residency intensive in Tuscany, at Spannocchia Castle, where he gave a stirring lecture series on his life as an artist and scholar. Later in the summer we honored David with the very first IDSVA Prize, to be awarded annually to an artist-philosopher whose work has contributed to positive change worldwide.

In 2000, Professor Driskell received the National Humanities Medal from President Bill Clinton. In 2001, the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora was established at the University of Maryland, College Park.

With this letter I am proud to announce the establishment of the David C. Driskell Fellowship. The fellowship will be awarded annually to an IDSVA student or students whose creative life, intellectual rigor, and civic spirit emulate David’s example of the artist-philosopher. Support for the fellowship will be raised through an annual David C. Driskell Fellowship Fund. Your contribution to the fund will help realize the aspirations of tomorrow’s world leaders in art and academia. Many of these aspirants are women and minorities, reflecting IDSVA’s dedication to diversity as we build toward the leadership of tomorrow.

I am also proud to announce that a special David Driskell print edition will additionally support the Fellowship. Entitled “Bird Man” and currently in studio production, the mixed media print (woodcut and silk screen) will measure 16”x12”. This special edition of forty prints, signed and numbered by David Driskell, will be available in spring 2010 for $1200. Contributions to the David C. Driskell Fellowship Fund of $300 or more may be applied to the $1200 purchase price. Payment plans on the balance are available upon request. This offer is limited to the first forty contributions of $300 or more.

Yours,

Dr. George Smith

Founder and President

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