Drawing Miniatures with watercolor artist Gabrielle Reeves

Visiting Professor Deniz Karakas has organized an online watercolor painting workshop with Istanbul-based artist Gabrielle Reeves. The workshop will take place on Thursday, October 29 at 3:40pm CST.

Zoom meeting link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/92590266996

For the workshop please have prepared:

1: A reference photo from which you will work.  This can be any subject but do consider what your watercolor and drawing level is. You may have the photo reference on your computer screen or print it out. There is no requirement about this besides making sure you have a clear and large enough image to work from.

2: Prepare the size of your watercolor paper to 15cm x 20cm.  You can either cut the paper down to this size or use masking tape.

3: Optional but recommended: If you have time, begin to draw out your image lightly in pencil on the prepared 15cm x 20cm paper, including all of the details that you think you will need for the painting.  Because drawing can take a long time, it would be recommended to at least begin this process so that you have more time to paint.  

4: Have all of your materials ready: Watercolor paper (plus extra sheets for techniques and color mixing), watercolor kit, brush(es), jar of water, paper towels or painting rags, reference photo, pencil and eraser.
 
This workshop is sponsored by CELT (Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching).

The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andes

Please join us this Thursday, October 29 at 5pm via Zoom for a talk by Dr. Ananda Cohen-Aponte (Cornell University), "The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andes."  This presentation explores themes of loss, erasure, and effacement of artworks in eighteenth-century Peru and Bolivia, positing the modification of material culture as a form of world-making by considering case studies from the Tupac Amaru and Katari Rebellions, which sought the overthrow of Spanish colonial rule. 

Traditional art historical studies that focus exclusively on fully intact or “museum quality” artworks distort our understanding of fraught periods of history, and particularly rebellions and uprisings, due to severe censorship campaigns in their aftermath that sought to restore colonial order through targeted iconoclasm. This presentation offers new insights for writing about art’s entanglement with political violence, underscoring the gains that can be made through interdisciplinary methodologies for recovering Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous artists and subjects that have been erased from the official archive. 

This talk is part of the year-long "Representation and Resistance: Scholarship Centering Race in Western Art" lecture series organised by the Newcomb Art Department and co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Program.  Dr. Cohen-Aponte's lecture is also co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and is the 2020 Terry K. Simmons Lecture in Art History for this year. 

Zoom meeting info:  https://tulane.zoom.us/j/98937431062

New Publications by Art History Alumni and Graduate Students

Victoria I. Lyall (MA Tulane, PhD UCLA), the Mayer Curator of Pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum, co-edited a recently published book titled ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas.

“ReVisión” collects essays from scholars of Latin American art history to help others understand the region’s nuanced history of creation, destruction, and renewal. In addition to essays, ReVisión showcases work from artists such as Alexander Apóstol, Juan Enrique Bedoya, Johanna Calle, and Ronny Quevedo in order to help visualize the questions of identity, exploitation of natural resources, and displacement from both before and after the conquest.” - University of Chicago Press

The book is also accompanied by an upcoming exhibition at the Denver Art Museum (dates TBA).

Lily Filson (BA Tulane, MA Syracuse, PhD, Ca'Foscari) published an article titled "Reformation England and the Performance of Wonder: Automata Technology and the Transfer of Power from Church to State" in Society and Politics vol. 13, no. 2.

Lucia Momoh (MA Tulane) published an article titled “The Art of Erasure” in The Iron Lattice, an art and culture print magazine based in New Orleans.

Two of our Art History and Latin American Studies PhD candidates have just recently published Smarthistory essays, "The History of Mexico: Diego Rivera’s Murals at the National Palace" by Megan Flattley and "Painting Aztec History" by Hayley Woodward. This was part of a special COVID-era program to support emerging art history scholars, sponsored by the Kress Foundation.