Fall '09 Student Exhibtions
Senior studio mid-year exhibition
Dec. 1 - Jan. 29, 2010
Opening Reception
Tuesday Dec. 1, 2009 5-7 p.m.
Dreitzer Gallery at the Spingold Theater Complex
Spring 2010 Student Exhibitions
Dimensions 2: Work from classes in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking
Feb. 3 – 22
Opening Reception
Feb. 3, 2010 5-7 p.m.
Dimensions 3: Work from classes in Sculpture, 3D Design and Digital Photography
Feb. 24 – March 14
Opening Reception
Feb. 24, 2010 5-7 p.m.
Post-Bacc I: Post-Baccalaureate Painting and Sculpture
March 17 – April 12
Opening Reception
March 17, 2010 6-8 p.m.
Post-Bacc II: Post-Baccalaureate Painting and Sculpture
April 14 – May 2
Opening Reception
April 14, 2010 6-8 p.m.
Class of 2010: Senior Studio Majors Exhibition
May 5 – 23
Opening Reception
May 5, 2010 5-7 p.m.
News
Professor Nancy Scott's FA 197 Methods and Approaches in the History of Art class was treated to a rare occasion, the chance to see original 16th-19th century Old Master drawings in a lecture/ demonstration held by former Professor Joan Nissman on Oct. 27, 2009.
Nissman, who taught at Brandeis from 1977-87, is a Baroque art historian with a specialty in Old Master drawings. She currently manages the art dealership Nissman, Abromson Ltd. She is also a board member of the Art Dealers Association of America.
Visiting Faculty 2009-10
Gannit Ankori
Visiting Professor Gannit Ankori is a leading authority on Israeli and Palestinian art as well as a world-renowned author of scholarly books and articles on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. This year, she will be teaching three courses in the Fine Arts Department here at Brandeis.
Ankori is the Henya Sharef Professor of Humanities and former chair of the Department of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also holds an appointment as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School.
Ankori has published extensively in the field of Israeli and Palestinian art, with special emphasis on issues pertaining to gender, nationalism, religion, trauma, exile, hybridity and their manifestations in the visual arts. Her book, Palestinian Art (Reaktion Books, London, 2006) was awarded a Polonsky Prize for Originality and Creativity in the Humanistic Disciplines in 2007.
Ankori has also published two books and many articles on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, among them her 2002 Imaging Her Selves: Frida Kahlo’s Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation and a major catalogue essay for the Kahlo retrospective at Tate Modern, London (2005). She also curated a Kahlo exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York (2003-4). Her third book on Kahlo is scheduled for publication next year as part of Reaktion Books’ acclaimed “Critical Lives” series.
Ankori's current projects include a theoretical study on “Visual Epistemology: The Work of Art as a Source of Knowledge” and a forthcoming book, titled A Faith of Their Own: Women Artists Re-Vision Religion, based on ongoing research being conducted at Harvard University’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program.