Paint!
A symposium on current practice
Sponsored by the School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph and the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
October
20-21, 2004
All
events hosted by the
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
358 Gordon Street, Guelph (at the corner of Gordon Street and College Avenue)
tel (519) 837-0010 / fax (519) 767-2661
Featuring:
Robert Enright, Christian Giroux, Will Gorlitz, John Kissick, John Bentley
Mays, David Moos, Judith Nasby, Monica Tap, David Urban, Liz Wylie, and
Jessica Wyman. Keynote Address
by James Elkins.
Schedule
of Events
Wednesday
October 20
Opening
Remarks
at 3:00 p.m.
Session
One
at 3:30-5:00 p.m.: League of Discernment
Christian
Giroux: Chair
John Bentley Mays: Nihilist
Creep: Contemporary Painting
Liz Wylie: Painting and the
New Museum
David Urban: Imagining Life
Before Words
Keynote
Address at 7:30-9:00 p.m.:
James
Elkins, Why Art Historians Should Learn To Paint
Introduced by Will Gorlitz
Thursday
October 21
10:00-11:30 a.m.:
Robert Enright in Conversation with James Elkins
12:00-1:00 p.m.:
Judith Nasby and John Kissick discuss exhibitions
at the
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre:
John Kissick: A Survey of Recent Painting
and
Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, Jeweller
Session
Two at 1:30-3:00 p.m.:
Open Season: Abstraction
Monica
Tap: Chair
Participants: David Moos and Jessica Wyman
All
events were free and open to the public.