Want to talk about art like an expert? Or at least be able to pretend to? Are you eager to wow your friends and family at reunions and cocktail parties with your astute knowledge of key art terms and concepts? Or have you just been confused — like so many of us — by what the definition of “abstract” is or by weird and fancy-sounding words on museum labels like “impasto,” “Caravaggiesque,” and “sfumato”?
Well, this Thursday night, A is for Art. And F is for Fun.
Grab your pens and paper because have we got the crash course for you! Join Dr. Alex Rich, Executive Director and Chief Curator, as he gathers three art historian colleagues with diverse specializations for a fun, interactive night as they go over the ABCs of Art History. With an alphabet of letters to choose from, these four art historians will be on call, ready to chat about the words every armchair art historian should know and to clarify any art terms and ideas that YOU would like to understand better.
Dr. Rich will be joined by Dr. Kristen Carter, Assistant Professor of Art History at Florida Southern College; Dr. Victoria Addona, postdoctoral fellow at McGill University; and Keidra Daniels Navaroli, former Assistant Director and Curator of the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology, as they take all of your questions LIVE.
With your most pressing ART VOCAB questions in hand, join us on Facebook Live or via Zoom Thursday, September 17th at 6pm! Give us an hour: we’ll make you sound like an expert in no time.
About Our Guests
Dr. Kristen Carter earned her Ph.D in Art History and Theory from the University of British Columbia. Before joining Florida Southern as an Assistant Professor, she taught modern and contemporary art history at UBC and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary art history, with a particular focus on American art in the 1960s and 1970s. Her research interests include modes of viewership, participation, subject formation, and institutional critique with an emphasis on post-1968 artistic praxis and pedagogy.
Dr. Victoria Addona is an FRQSC funded postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, where she is writing a book on the ways late sixteenth-century Florentine architects grappled with the dynamics of natural phenomena and their precarious imposition on the early modern built environment. She recently obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, and has held a Samuel H. Kress fellowship at the Medici Archive Project, and pre-doctoral fellowships at Villa I Tatti and Sir John Soane’s Museum.
Keidra Daniels Navaroli is the former assistant director and curator of the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts at Florida Institute of Technology. She received her M.A. in the History and Criticism of Art from Florida State University (B.A. in Art History from the University of Florida), and, since 2010, she has curated notable and award-winning exhibitions celebrating the diversity of fiber arts. Prior to work at the Ruth Funk Center, she handled corporate and foundation relations for the Orlando Museum of Art and completed internships with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sotheby’s Auction House in New York City.
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