MFA candidate in photography, Miranda Maynard, will discuss the thinking behind her curated exhibition "Role Models", a two-person show that features work by Maynard and Chicago-based artist Phaedra Call. 

Join us for a preview of the exhibition The Figure 8. Artists featured in the exhibition, Elizabeth Jaeger, Amy Pleasant, and J. Parker Valentine will be on hand to discuss their work and to answer questions. 

Archive Fever is a new program at the Dodd Galleries that explores research and visual culture. Part Pechu-Kucha, part image round-robin, 5 students, faculty, and visiting artists will be asked to present 10-15 slides that inform their perceptual, emotional, and intellectual archive.

Farrah Karapetian is a Los Angeles based artist who works in sculpture, installation and photography. Much of her work is photo based which she achieves without the use of the camera in a process known as photograms. Karapetian explores reality and representation through the constructed image and the use of different mediums. She believes in transparency of process, and in the capacity of photography to communicate the marks of its making.

Born in Copenhagen, Henrik Drescher and his family immigrated to the United States in 1967. After only a semester, he broke from his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to begin a career in illustration. He also traveled throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, keeping journals of notes and drawings that he later used as portfolios.

Afloat is a compendium of works by RG Brown that explores the notion of journey and the memories of new-found places and experiences. For RG, boats hold a primary place in human and societal development; they are archetypal vessels used to gather and transport personal experiences that shape how we live in the world. During his career Brown traveled to Africa, South America, Europe and Southeast Asia to learn boat building from indigenous people in various cultures.

Afloat is a compendium of works by RG Brown that explores the notion of journey and the memories of new-found places and experiences. For RG, boats hold a primary place in human and societal development; they are archetypal vessels used to gather and transport personal experiences that shape how we live in the world. During his career Brown traveled to Africa, South America, Europe and Southeast Asia to learn boat building from indigenous people in various cultures.

Catherine Robson is a professor in the English Department at New York University, where she teaches nineteenth-century British cultural and literary studies; she is also a long-time faculty member of the Santa Cruz-based Dickens Project.  She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (2001) and Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem (2012), and co-editor of The Victorian Age for the Norton Anthology of English Lite

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Reinaldo Román. Professor Román teaches courses in the history of the Caribbean, Latin America, and religion; he is currently working on a new book about spiritualism and utopian politics in Cuba in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Husseina Dinani. Professor Dinani teaches courses in the history of Africa after 1800, and on women in sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently working on a book about women, citizenship, and development in Tanzania.

Students of all majors are welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.