From March 2-3, 2023, the Department of Art History and Art Conservation welcomed Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, for a weekend of events co-sponsored with the Department of History. Graduate students of Art History and Art Conservation took part in Hands-On History: Exploring Secrets of Craft and Nature in your Kitchen. Select images are found below; click to enlarge each image.
Queen's University Athletics and Recreation Centre
After two years of COVID, the BFA Fine Art Print Sale is back in-person at the ARC. Come by to view and purchase amazing impressions that BFA Fine Art students have made in the print media classes offered at Queen's University.
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The Departments of History and Art History & Art Conservation are jointly offering a new, immersive course available to undergraduate students in the 2023 Summer Term: From Confinement to Cultural Heritage: Digital Preservation and the History of Kingston Penitentiary.
On Friday, March 10, 3:00-5:00pm, join the Agnes Etheringston Art Centre for Media Cosmologies: an international conversation on art, technology, and transmission with Cheryl L'Hirondelle and Callum Beckford. The free public talks, given by Governor General's Award-winning artist and musician Cheryl L'Hirondelle (Cree/Halfbreed; German/Polish) and artist and musician Callum Beckford (Cree/Métis; Jamaican/German), celebrated the ongoing restoration of one of L'Hirondelle's artworks, vancouversonglines.ca (2008); the work will be accessible to the public for the first time in years, presented on computer terminals in the Agnes' atrium.
An image from vancouversonglines.ca (Cheryl L'Hirondelle, 2008), currently being restored at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
Hands-On History Workshop with Pamela H. Smith
Start Date
Thursday March 2, 2023
End Date
Friday March 3, 2023
Time
5:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
The Departments of History and Art History and Art Conservation are sponsoring two events with visiting speaker Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University.
The session will introduce methodology of historical reconstruction using the hands-on resources developed by the Making and Knowing Project for use with Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640. Following introductory search and analysis exercises, there will be a hands-on session; participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, clothing they don't mind getting dirty, and "a sense of adventure".
The workshop happens on Friday, March 3 from 1:00-4:00pm in the André Biéler Studio at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Graduate students in History, Art History, and Art Conservation and upper-year undergraduate students in the BFA program may apply to attend the workshop. The application deadline is Feb. 20, 2023.
The Department is grateful to the Agnes for its generous support of this event.
Creating stucco in the Making and Knowing Lab, Columbia University.
About Pamela H. Smith:
Pamela H. Smith is Seth Low professor of history at Columbia University, and founding Director of the Center for Science and Society and of its cluster project The Making and Knowing Project (www.makingandknowing.org). Her articles and books examine craft and practice, and its relationship to scientific knowledge. The Body of the Artisan (2004), and From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Chicago 2022) make a case for treating craft/art as a way of knowing. Her edited volumes, Ways of Making and Knowing (ed. with Amy R. W. Meyers and Harold Cook, pbk 2017) and The Matter ofArt (ed. with Christy Anderson and Anne Dunlop, pbk 2016), treat materiality, making and meaning. An edited volume, Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia (2019), deals with the movement of materials and knowledge across Eurasia before 1800.In a collaborative research and teaching initiative, The Making and Knowing Project, she and the Making and Knowing Team investigate the intersection of craft making and scientific knowing by text-, object-, and laboratory-based research on the technical and artistic recipes contained in a sixteenth-century French manuscript BnF Ms. Fr. 640. In 2020 they released a digital critical edition and English translation of the manuscript, Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France.
Banner image caption: Creating molding sand in the Making and Knowing Lab, Columbia University.
The Department of Art History and Art Conservation offers its warmest wishes and congratulations to Professor Joan Schwartz upon her retirement on December 31, 2022.
Major Fields of Interest: My fields of interest are: Women artists of the 20th century, 20th-century German art, art under dictatorships, and provenance and restitution studies. Undergraduate Experience: McGill University, Major Major Concentration Art History, Minor Concentration European Lit. & Culture, Minor Concentration Italian Studies, Minor Concentration in German Language (B.A. Distinction), 2022. Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead.
Major Fields of Interest: 19th-Century Gothic Revival and material culture, medieval gothic manuscripts and model books. Undergraduate Experience: University of Toronto, Art History & German Studies (Double-Major). Graduate Experience: M.A. Art History, Queen's University. Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Reeve.
