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.

 


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