Catalog of Portland Art Museum Lectures

Crumpacker Family Library

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

CATALOG OF ARCHIVED PORTLAND ART MUSEUM LECTURES

6/21/2009

Lecture Title:

Virtual Worlds: Escher and Paradox

Exhibition:Virtual Worlds: M.C. Escher and Paradox Type:Docent LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Dr. Annette Dixon, PAM Curator of Prints and Drawings, discusses the work of M.C. Escher.Speaker(s):Dixon, Annette

6/8/2009

Lecture Title:

Virtual Worlds: Escher and Paradox

Exhibition:Virtual Worlds: M.C. Escher and Paradox Type:Docent LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Dr. Annette Dixon, PAM Curator of Prints and Drawings, discusses the work of M.C. Escher.Speaker(s):Dixon, Annette

6/7/2009

Lecture Title:

A Dialogue Forward and Backward

Exhibition:PNCA @ 100 Type:Public LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Chief Curator Bruce Guenther and President of Pacific NW College of Art Tom Manley discuss theshared history of the Museum and PNCA and what the future holds for these art institutions.Speaker(s):Guenther, BruceManley, TomPage 1 of 154

6/6/2009

Lecture Title:

Coiling Dragon, Crouching Tiger: Urban Life in Late Ming Nanjing

Exhibition: Type:Public LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Ina Asim discusses urban life in late Ming NanjingSpeaker(s):Asim, InaGraybill, MaribethWilliams, Ann

6/1/2009

Lecture Title:Exhibition:PNCA @ 100 Type:Docent LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Artist Lucinda Parker discusses her work on the occasion of the opening of PNCA @ 100Speaker(s):Parker, Lucinda

5/21/2009

Lecture Title:

Gifts of Honor: Beaded Bags from the Columbia River Plateau

Exhibition:Gifts of Honor: Beaded Bags from the Columbia River Plateau Type:Art and ConversationFormat:DVDSummary:Speaker(s):Strankman, Anna

5/18/2009

Lecture Title:

Modernist Sculpture in the PAM Collections

Exhibition:Permanent Installation of the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art. Type:Docent LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Portland Art Museum Chief Curator, Bruce Guenther discusses modernist sculpture in the PAMcollections.Speaker(s):Guenther, BrucePage 2 of 154

5/11/2009

Lecture Title:

NW Coast

Exhibition: The Reinstallation of the Native American Galleries Type:Docent LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Anna Strankman, PAM Curator of Native American Art, discusses the reinstallation of the NativeAmerican Galleries (Part IV of IV) - Changing out drum and textiles.Speaker(s):Strankman, Anna

5/4/2009

Lecture Title:

Sensitive Visions: The Prints of Beth Van Hoesen

Exhibition:Sensitive Vision: The Prints of Beth Van Hoesen Type:Docent LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Dr. Annette Dixon, PAM Curator of Prints and Drawings, discusses the retrospective of prints bySan Francisco artist Beth Van Hoesen features approximately 70 prints drawn from the permanentcollection of the Portland Art Museum.Speaker(s):Dixon, Annette

5/3/2009

Lecture Title:

Paul Gauguin's Pilgrimage: Lima, Paris, Pont Aven, and Papeete

Exhibition: Type:Public LectureFormat:DVDSummary:Richard Brettel, the chair of art and aesthetics at the University of Texas at Dallas, is among theforemost authorities on Impressionism and French painting from 1830-1930. He discusses thecareer and life of global artist, Paul Gauguin.Speaker(s):Brettel, Richard

5/1/2009

Lecture Title:

Belluschi vs. Graves and the Postmodernist Breakthrough

Exhibition:Part of the National Undergraduate Symposium in Art History, this keynote address is sponsored Type:Keynote AddressFormat:DVDSummary:Architectural historian Meredith Clausen details the competition between Pietro Belluschi andMichael Graves to design the Portland Public Services Building, and how the winning designcrystallized the new post-modernist archictectural movement.Speaker(s):Clausen, MeredithPage 3 of 154