Exhibition and Conference Examine Objects and Visual Culture Nicholas Mirzoeff, Editor ofThe Visual Culture Reader, to Give Keynote Address
February 18, 2004
“Objects in/and Visual Culture,” an exhibition examining the origins and impact of all types of physical objects, will be on display in the Zoller Gallery on the University Park campus, March 1–20, 2004. The exhibition is part of a conference of the same name, to be held March 19–20 at the Palmer Museum of Art. Both the conference and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Nicholas Mirzoeff, editor of The Visual Culture Reader and faculty member at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will give the conference’s keynote address at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 19, in the Vanderbilt Room at the Atherton Hotel.
The exhibition, which addresses the emergence of visual culture as an interdisciplinary practice, is co-curated by Sallie McCorkle, associate professor of visual arts and women’s studies, and Joyce Henri Robinson, curator at the Palmer Museum of Art. It includes work by Penn State faculty members Micaela Amato, Keith Cummings, Charles Garoian, Leslie Leupp, Billie Grace Lynn, Liz Quackenbush, Sarah Schwartz, Ann Shostrom and James Thurman, in addition to artists/faculty from universities in Canada and throughout the United States.
Conference registration will take place from 9 to 10 a.m. on Friday, March 19, in Zoller Gallery. Pre-registration is not required. Panel discussions including scholars and artists from Penn State, the Parsons School of Art and Design, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Meertens Institute in the Netherlands, among other institutions, will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday in the Palmer Museum’s Lipcon Auditorium.
The conference and exhibition are sponsored by the College of Arts and Architecture, Palmer Museum of Art, School of Visual Arts Anderson Endowment for Visiting Artists and Scholars, Zoller Gallery, and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. For more information, visit www.sva.psu.edu/objects.html or contact Sallie McCorkle at smm11@psu.edu or 814-865-9471.