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2000-2001 AIE Lecture Series

Fall 2000

Exploring Complexities: The Artistic Process of Isadora Duncan
Lori Belilove
Lori Belilove is highly regarded as a leading expert on Isadora Duncan. As the artistic director and founder of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, she travels around the country and abroad leading workshops that preserve Duncan's legacy. In her visit to HGSE, she will introduce us to the "Duncan technique" and the educational philosophy of the controversial and revered artist who revolutionized the art of dance.

Believing is Seeing: Art and Everyday Life
Mary Anne Stanizewski
Professor of art history and critical theory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mary Anne Stanizewski is the author of Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art and The Power of Display. Her interests span modern culture, criticism, and critical theory, electronic arts, mass media, and museum studies. An expert on the subject of art, artists, and their role in society, she will ground our understandings in a contemporary context.

Art, Anxiety, and Innocence
Jonathan Fineberg
Jonathan Fineberg is professor of art history and University Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has won the Pulitzer fellowship in critical writing and the National Endowment for the Arts art critic's fellowship. Fineberg has curated major exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and has published widely on modern art. He is the author of The Innocent Eye, Discovering Child Art, and Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being.

Art and Excellence in 1800: Eloise Richards Payne
Diana Korzenik
Diana Korzenik is a painter, author, and historian of art education. She is the former chair of the art education department at the Massachusetts College of Art, author of the classic text Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth Century American Dream, and co-author of Art Making and Education.

Changing Contexts for Discipline-Based Art Education:
Reflecting on the Past with an Eye to the Future
Judith Smith Koroscik
Judith Smith Koroscik is a professor of art education and the dean of the College of the Arts at Ohio State University. Her research interests include the psychology of learning in the arts. Among her many areas of arts education policy expertise is the Getty Foundation's now historic initiative: Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE).

The Arts across the Curriculum at the Walnut Hill School
Stephanie Perrin
Stephanie Perrin is the headmistress of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, where pre-professional arts training is fully integrated with a rigorous college-preparatory academic program school. Affiliations with the New England Conservatory of Music and the Boston Ballet enrich students' study of music, dance, theater, visual arts, and creative writing.

Spring 2001

Artists in the Classroom: Who's the Teacher?
Gretchen Berg
Gretchen Berg is a member of the modern dance company Berg, Jones & Sarvis and a teacher of theatre, dance, and performance art at Bowdoin College. Berg has a wide range of experience as an artist-in-residence throughout New England working with various populations in classrooms, museums, and public places.

Oasis on Albany Avenue: Students and Teachers from The Artists Collective in Hartford, CT
The Artists Collective
The Artists Collective is a nationally recognized urban community art center founded by alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. The founding executive director is Dollie McLean. The lecture performance will feature students and faculty from the Collective including founder and dance director Cheryl Smith, master choreographer Aca Lee Thompson, music coordinator Johnnie Lee Walton, and conductor arranger Rufus Foote.

Paradigm Spinning and Visionary Criticism: A Personal Profile
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Suzi Gablik
Suzi Gablik is an artist, art critic, cultural philosopher, and expert on Western Modernism. Departing from what she calls "the faded ethos of modernism," Gablik sees artists as agents of social change. Her books include Has Modernism Failed?, The Reenchantment of Art, and Conversations Before the End of Time.

The National Endowment for the Arts: Its Role in Education
Bill Ivey
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, folklorist and musician Bill Ivey has served as director of the Country Music Foundation, chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, senior research fellow at Brooklyn College's Institute for Studies in American Music and taught at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music.

Mutual Transformations: Technology in Arts Education
Jennifer Hall
Jen Hall is a 3D-interface designer and information artist. She is the director of the Do While Studio in Boston and an associate professor at Massachusetts College of Art. Hall has exhibited her Cyber sculpture widely including shows at the DeCordova Museum and the Boston Cyber Arts Festival.

Charting a Future for the Arts in Education
Michael Parsons
Michael Parsons is professor (and former chair) of art education at Ohio State University and the associate editor of Studies in Art Education. With expertise spanning the areas of teacher training and the philosophy of education, he is the author of How We Understand Art: A Cognitive Development Account of Aesthetic Judgment.