Teaching Pre-modern European Art in Context

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Teaching Pre-modern European Art in Context

This seminar series offers a specially focused week-long seminar—hosted by a different museum with a significant Kress Collection—each summer for the next three years. The first seminar will take place at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama in July 2010 and will concentrate on the topic of artistic workshop practices of late medieval and Renaissance Italy. The High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia will be the seminar location in the summer of 2011 and will focus on themes that appear in Renaissance through 19th century art, with an emphasis on the Italian Renaissance. The third and final seminar in summer 2012 will take place at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Its focus will be further defined as the project proceeds. The goal of the seminar is to strengthen the teaching of art history to undergraduates at smaller colleges and universities.

Funder: Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Program Status: The first seminar will take place at the Birmingham Museum of Art, July 26-30, 2010. The deadline for nominations is January 8, 2010. The seminar and will be co-led by Jeannine O’Grody, chief curator and curator of European art at the Birmingham Museum of Art and Tim Smith, assistant professor of art history at Birmingham-Southern College. Full time faculty members from CIC institutions who are art historians, studio artists, or faculty members trained in other disciplines such as theatre arts, English, or communications are eligible to participate if they teach art history. Up to 25 individuals will be selected for participation in 2010. To submit a nomination, please refer to the brochure and nomination form below.

Program Brochure
Nomination Form: (Word format) , (PDF Format)

Advisory Committee: Gail Andrews, Director, Birmingham Museum of Art; Betsy Fleming, President, Converse College (SC) who also worked for a number of years as assistant director of the Frick Collection; Dorothy Kosinski, Director, The Phillips Collection; Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, President, Marlboro College who headed the (federal) President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities; Amy Meyers, Director, Yale Center for British Art; David Pollick, President, Birmingham-Southern College and Chair of the Committee and former head of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Philip Verre, Chief Operating Officer, High Museum of Art; Daniel Weiss, President, Lafayette College and former professor of art history and dean of the arts and sciences college at Johns Hopkins University; Stephanie Wiles, John G.W. Cowles Director, The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.

Press Release
October 2009: CIC Announces New Seminars on Art History

Questions regarding the Art History Seminars should be directed to Stephen Gibson, CIC Director of Projects, at sgibson@cic.nche.edu or (202) 466-7230.

Image at top of page: Journey of the Queen of Sheba, Apollonio di Giovanni (about 1416-1465) and workshop, after 1460, tempera on panel, Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation