Free tickets required after Museum admission
Museum admission is free for art and art history students from select area art schools.

Three artists talk about their work on view in the citywide, multisite art festival Philagrafika 2010. Join us for a discussion of the role of the print in contemporary art.

Paid tickets required
$25 ($20 members); ticket does not include Museum admission

Lecturer: Janine Utell, Associate Professor of English, Widener University

Free tickets required after Museum admission
Museum admission is free for art and art history students from select area art schools.

Join us for the keynote address of the Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art. Christopher Green, Emeritus Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a leading authority on Picasso and early twentieth century art, will discuss the artist in the context of the Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris exhibition. Green’s most recent publication is Life and Death in Picasso: Still Life/Figure, c. 1907–1933.

Paid tickets required
Members: $100
Nonmembers: $125

Writing can provide deeper insight and is a way to share your thoughts and ideas about art. In this workshop, we’ll write about landscape paintings from the Museum’s collection. We’ll begin with a discussion of selected essays on art. At the second session we’ll be joined by guest art critics for an informal conversation about different approaches to writing about art. Participants will then try their hand at writing a well-developed, three-page essay. The fourth class will meet at historic Mount Pleasant, overlooking the Schuylkill River, where we’ll read and discuss each other’s work, enjoy light refreshments, and give useful feedback to further refine our writing—as well as our looking.

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Register for one or both lectures.

Two lectures in one day!
Join us for this special day in conjunction with Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal. Come for the morning lecture, take a break for lunch, and return for the second lecture in this two-part celebration of the unique Indian kantha.

• Touch, Texture, and Family Ties: Kanthas in Bengali Households
  
  • Sunday, June 13, 2010, Starts at 11:00 a.m.
    Kanthas, often made with recycled fabric and intricately embroidered, can become objects of immense value, not unlike family jewelry. In this talk Pika Ghosh, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, explores kanthas’ worth as heirloom artifacts and the role women’s handiwork plays in creating and sustaining personal relationships, shaping family lore, and creating a distinctive regional identity.
• The Kantha: From Bedroom to Boardroom
  Starts at 1:00 p.m.
  The Bengal kantha, like the American quilt, was a coverlet or wrap created for personal use. In the last thirty years, however, it has become an object of public display, showing up everywhere from drawing rooms to boardrooms, a change that has affected the traditional material, stitches, and design. Dr. Niaz Zaman, Supernumerary Professor in the Department of English at the University of Dhaka, examines early pieces and traces the development of the kantha.