Art In The Evening Lecture Series At Camden County College This Spring

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — The Director of Museum Education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will host a series of evening art lectures at Camden County College this spring.

Monica Zimmerman will host the series in the Connector Building on the Blackwood Campus. Each session begins at 7 p.m.

The schedule is as follows:

TUESDAY, MARCH 28
A Room of Her Own: Women in American Art
Look back to boundary-busting, nineteenth-century artists - like the Peale daughters, Cecilia Beaux, and Violet Oakley - to help trace the forces of political and cultural change in American history that have both inspired and challenged professional female artists. Featured heavily will be works by 20th-century women artists (part of a recent gift to PAFA by Linda Lee Alter), whose diversity of perspectives can tell us a great deal about who we are and where we've come from, from the political statements of Faith Ringgold and Sue Coe to the gorgeous abstractions of Edna Andrade and Elizabeth Osborne.

TUESDAY, APRIL 4
World War I and American Art
Coinciding with the centenary of America's involvement with the war, World War I and American Art is the first major exhibition devoted to exploring the ways in which American artists reacted to the First World War. The war's impact on art and culture was enormous, as nearly all of the era's major American artists interpreted their experiences, opinions and perceptions of the conflict through their work. This lecture will explore the role of artists who chronicled their experiences of the unfolding war as it crept closer to home and then involved them directly as soldiers, relief workers, political dissenters, and official war artists.

TUESDAY, APRIL 25
Philadelphia Firsts: A History of Philadelphia through Art
The historic collection of artworks in PAFA's galleries captures the story of Philadelphia as a city on the cutting edge of the 19th century, leading the country toward new discoveries in technology, creativity and civic engagement. Take a whirlwind tour of 18th and 19th century paintings that illustrate Philadelphia's greatest accomplishments as a city of firsts, including the founding of the first museum, the first public waterworks and public fountain, the first steamboat on the Schuylkill River, the first medical school and university, and many more.

TUESDAY, MAY 2
Frank Furness and George Hewitt: Architects of a Historic Moment
On April 22, 1876, while America celebrated its centennial, PAFA opened a new building designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt, the result of a city-wide competition to build America's first art museum and school. Rising 70 feet above the sidewalk, the building seemed a towering fortress in 1876 and included radical design elements like exposed steel beams, gothic arches and bas-relief friezes that awed citizens even then. By exploring the process of commissioning the building and sourcing its materials, as well as the intertwining design motifs of the American landscape and the American industrial revolution that wind through what is now considered the finest surviving example of Victorian Gothic architecture in America, the rich story of our first 100 years of history and progress is visually articulated in a single building.

TUESDAY, MAY 9
Modern Spirit: Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937) grew up in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War and went on to become America's pioneering African American artist on the world stage at the turn of the 20th century. An investigation of the personal and professional evolution of Tanner, particularly the influence of race, religion and modernist experimentation in art making, takes audiences on a journey through the artist colonies of rural France, the rise of the Red Cross in Europe during World War I, western depictions of the Holy Land and North Africa, and the scientific and technical innovations of an artist painting at a time of global change.

To register, click the link below and fill out a registration form. Send form by mail, email, or fax:

Registration form, Center for Civic Leadership and Responsibility.