Alternative Histories: Creative Writing Workshop with David Tait

Saturday, 3 March 2012
1.30-4pm

To celebrate the Gallery’s new Matt Smith exhibition, ‘Other Stories: Queering the University Art Collection’, in association with LGBT History Month, join poet David Tait for a workshop in response to the show. Smith draws inspiration from the life narrative of the Victorian writer and early gay rights activist, Edward Carpenter, but the workshop will be focused on re-writing the narrative of the whole gallery; the people and the pictures, ensuring that every piece argues and sings. We’ll be looking at poems too – notably by Elizabeth Bishop, Carol Ann Duffy, Frank O’Hara and Mark Doty.

For more information about the event click here

Free workshop, but places are limited so please book your place in advance by e-mailing gallery@leeds.ac.uk or by phoning (0113) 343 2778,

Heritage Reading Group - 6th March, 12.30-2.00pm

The next meeting of the Heritage Reading Group will be 6th March at 12.30pm in 104, Student Common Room in the Old Mining Building (number 53 on the campus map).
All postgraduates and staff very welcome indeed.

We will be reading Laurajane Smith's '"Man’s inhumanity to man" and other platitudes of avoidance and misrecognition: an analysis of visitor responses to exhibitions marking the 1807 bicentenary' (Museum and Society, 8(3): 193-213) which explores visitor responses to exhibitions and displays developed as part of the bicentenary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The discussion will be introduced by Helen Graham, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.

To facilitate staff and student access to the reading group texts we have set up a shared 'Community' on Elgg (Leeds' in house blogging site). The texts for the March meeting and all future groups will be posted here.
https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/hrg/
To join the group Log in with your standard ISS username and password, all you need to do is 'join' the Community.

We hope to see you on 6th March,

Helen Graham and Nick Cass

Lunchtime Talk with Artist Matt Smith

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
1.30-2.15pm

Come along to the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery this Tuesday to hear Matt Smith, the artist responsible for the new exhibition, ‘Other Stories: Queering the University Art Collection', deliver a lunchtime talk the day after the opening, in association with LGBT History Month.

Smith will be talking more about the artistic process and the research undertaken as part of this exciting project.

Free event, all welcome. No booking necessary. We look forward to welcoming you!

Click here for more information on our upcoming events in March.

Teaching within Collections: Opportunities for Collaboration between Universities and Art Galleries / Museums

A conference that might be of interest to you...

Teaching within Collections: Opportunities for Collaboration between Universities and Art Galleries / Museums

1st March 2012, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

The seminar will focus in the morning on three collaborative papers, where curators and academics will reflect on their experience of using collections as teaching resources. The day will conclude with a round table discussion, with curators, academics and students participating. Registration will begin at 10.00am and the day will conclude at 4pm. There is space for an audience of 69.

With the increase in funding initiatives aimed at encouraging knowledge transfer and collaboration, the event is aimed primarily at education and museum professionals, but will be of equal benefit to students of various disciplines, and is meant to be practical above all. It aims to explore questions such as;

• What are the benefits/limitations/problems of using collections as teaching resources?
• In an age of digital media, how do collections retain their relevance to teaching practice?
• How do galleries/ museums balance the problems of preserving fragile and unique objects, while making them available to academics and students?

We are hoping to attract an audience of both curators and academics and the afternoon session will aim to be as interactive as possible in order to assist colleagues in developing collaborative partnerships.

Information for Delegates:

Booking fee for delegates is £40 (£30 for AAH members, £19 for concessions).

Booking by 23 February 2012 here.

Museology Seminar, Number XI

‘MUSEOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES’

Number XI

Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

                                                  University of Leeds
 

Performing Industrial History: Living History and Live Interpretation

Dr Polly Williams

AHRC CDA Researcher, University of Leeds & The National Coal Mining Museum for England

Thursday 8^th March 2012

Baines Wing, Room G.22

3.00pm-4.00pm

ALL WELCOME

For further information on this Seminar Series please email

Dr Mark Westgarth m.w.westgarth@leeds.ac.uk

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds

MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies alumni in Hong Kong

Hello All,
I've just got back from a trip to China (I've got lots of pictures of museum visiting to share...watch this space!)...but whilst I was in China I met two of our ex MA students... George Chunwa Chan, and Hattie Lam...and have they done well since graduating in 2010 and 2011...!

George is currently teaching art history survey modules at the prestigious Hong Kong University.  Here he is, with his colleagues, and Dr Timon Screech, no less!  I was very honoured to have been asked to deliver a talk at the Department of Fine Art at HK University whilst I was in Hong Kong...and George also took me out for dinner...fantastic hospitality! 

Hattie has also done very well - she is assistant curator of art at the Hong Kong Museum of Art.  Hattie was also really kind to me (and Mrs M)...she invited us to the preview of the new exhibition at the HK Museum of Art - 'Fantastic Creatures', which had come from the British Museum in London.  It is a 'Fantastic' show.....(Hattie was also really generous and took me and Mrs M out for dinner....along with her boyfriend Matthew (in the pic below)

And here's Hattie (in the middle), with Dr Ivy Lin (curator of art at HK Museum of Art), and at the back, Matthew, (Hattie's boyfriend...and an artist!)...and me (not chewing a mint btw...god knows what I think I'm doing!)....The HK Museum of Art is fabulous, and Hattie also gave us a private tour of the galleries the next day...It was great to meet Ivy and the education team at the HK Museum of Art...I hope to go back soon!

Thanks George and Hattie!
Mark

Sir Michael Sadler Symposium - free event at Leeds Art Gallery

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery is co-organising a free symposium with Leeds Art Gallery, celebrating the wider legacy of Sir Michael Sadler, our University Vice Chancellor 1911-1923.

You might remember the Sadler Gift exhibition at the Gallery last Autumn? Sadler was certainly generous with his art collection to the University of Leeds, but his influence was felt throughout the city and beyond as well. He helped the curator of Leeds Art Gallery, Frank Rutter, to set up one of the (now!) oldest Friends organisations in the UK in 1912 - the Leeds Art Collections Fund. The LACF is therefore celebrating its centenary year in 2012; at the end of this symposium day, all attendees are invited to the PV for the LACF centenary exhibition.

More info and booking is now online.

IMAGE: Mark Gertler (1891/2-1939), Portrait of Sir Michael Ernest Sadler KCSI, 1915, oil on canvas, Gift of Dr. T.E. Harvey, 1953 © University of Leeds Art Collection/Photo: Norman Taylor, 2011

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