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Sunday, September 9 | 2pm
Panel Discussion : A Symphony of the Arts: Olinka Hrdy and Bruce Goff's Riverside Studio Collaboration
Speakers: Mark White and Arn Henderson
Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium
In 1929, Tulsa architect Bruce Goff asked Olinka Hrdy, a recent University of Oklahoma graduate, to design a mural cycle for the recital hall and home of Patti Adams Shriner on Tulsa's Riverside Drive. Hrdy's mural cycle helped fulfill Goff's desire "to express the intimate relation of music and architecture."
Mark White, associate professor of art history at Oklahoma State University and curator of the exhibition Oklahoma Moderne: The Art & Design of Olinka Hrdy and Arn Henderson, Professor Emeritus, University of Oklahoma College of Architecture, will discuss the Riverside Studio collaboration and Hrdy's career in general.
Thursday, September 27 | 4pm
Lecture: Nature Based Sculpture Environments
Speaker: Herb Parker
This lecture is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma School of Art Visual Art Student Association and made possible in part by Campus Activities Council Speaker's Bureau.
View the flier.
Thursday, October 4 | 7 - 9pm
Opening Reception & Museum Association 2008 Membership Party
Sandy Bell Gallery
The public is invited to meet Ghislain d'Humières, the museum's new Wylodean and Bill Saxon Director and celebrate the opening of the exhibitions Out of Oklahoma: Contemporary Artists from Ruscha to Andoe and Reflections: Historic and Contemporary Works by the Martinez and Gonzales Families during this Museum Association-sponsored event. In addition to live music and refreshments, the evening will feature valuable door prize drawings for all 2008 Museum Association members who attend. Admission is free.
Click here to read the press release.
Sunday, October 14 | 2pm
Lecture : Eugene A. Bavinger: A Painter's Oklahoma Experience
Speaker: Susan Havens Caldwell
Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium
Born in Sapulpa, Gene Bavinger chose to remain in his native Oklahoma for his entire career. In this talk Susan Havens Caldwell, Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma, will study his paintings within the artistic and cultural milieu of OU's School of Art and the Norman community.
Friday, October 26 | 5:30pm
Wylodean Saxon Memorial Lecture
Speaker: John Wilmerding
Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium
John Wilmerding, one of the most respected and widely known authorities on American art, will present the third annual Wylodean Saxon Memorial Lecture. Wilmerding has served as curator of American art, senior curator, and deputy director at the National Gallery of Art. Currently, he is the Christopher Binyon Sarofim Professor of American Art at Princeton University and visiting curator in the department of American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thursday, November 8| 4pm
Artists' Dialogue
Featuring Robert Bonaparte, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan
Moderated by Richard P. Townsend
Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium
This program is being held in conjunction with the exhibitions:
Out of Oklahoma: Contemporary Artists from Ruscha to Andoe,
at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (through January 6, 2008)
and
Roots and Ties
at Unitlted [ArtSpace], Oklahoma City, OK (November 9 through December 29, 2007)
Sunday, November 11 | 2pm
Film : Oklahoma Film Project
Speakers: Charles Shadle and Martin Marks
Sandy Bell Gallery
This project features an afternoon of silent films with Native American content. Commentary will be provided by composer Charles Shadle (Oklahoma Choctaw) and Martin Marks, author of Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924 . Marks will also provide live piano accompaniment for The Invaders . Buffalo Bill's Wild West (1894/dir. by W.K.L. Dickson)
White Fawn's Devotion (1910/dir. by James Young Deer)
Ramona (1910/dir. by D.W. Griffith) Premier public screening of the restored film with film score by Charles Shadle, commissioned by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
The Invaders (1912/dir. by Francis Ford & Thomas H. Ince)
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