Guest Lecture Series
Dan Estabrook: Forever and Never
Thursday, Feb. 25 · 6pm
Exhibition Lecture with artist Dan Estabrook
Meet artist Dan Estabrook and learn about contemporary photography using historic process. For nearly twenty years, Estabrook has been using 19th century photographic processes to create intimate yet compelling photographs. His exhibition at MOCA will feature works produced using a variety of historical processes merged with hand-painting and other art media. Estabrook has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Estabrook will be the inaugural visiting artist in UNF’s Barbara Ritzman Devereux Artist Workshops. A strong supporter of the arts as well as an accomplished photographer, Barbara Devereux earned her second degree, a BA in art (summa cum laude), from UNF in 1992. In her honor, Barbara¹s family has established this workshop and visiting artist series.
MOCA Theater, Free Admission
The Art Museum in the 21st Century
April 11 – 2-3pm
Dr Charles Rosenberg
University of Notre Dame Faculty
One of the primary roots of the public art museum lies in the great private collections of wealthy ruling families such as the Medicis and the Hapsburgs. These grand accumulations of art, precious objects, and unusual natural artifacts were first made available to a broad public in the eighteenth century in a spirit of beneficent egalitarianism. Over time, institutions, such as the Uffizi, shifted their collecting and exhibition philosophies. No longer seeking to provide encyclopedic displays of art and artifacts, they became cultural repositories, more or less exclusively dedicated to the visual arts. These institutions had multiple functions, which included safeguarding cultural treasures and serving the intellectual and aesthetic needs of both popular and scholarly audiences. Today, the role of the public art museum has expanded even further into the worlds of education and popular entertainment. This lecture investigates the many faces of the modern museum by considering its constituencies, functions, and obligations as both a social and a cultural institution.
MOCA Theater, Free Admission