Juxtaposition 2000 2001

	JUXTAPOSITION Lectures, Performances, and Exhibitions at the Maryland Institute, College of Art 2000/01
	MICA Faculty Exhibition: September 29-November 5 Receptions: Thursday, September 28, Decker Gallery 5pm, Meyerhoff Gallery 6pm, Pinkard Gallery 6pm Decker, Meyerhoff, and Pinkard Galleries Faculty Exhibition Work by MICA faculty in a wide range of media.
	Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno and Patricia Pruitt Reading: Monday, October 2, 5:45 - 6:45pm Reception Following Bunting Center 110 Poetry Reading Writer, translator, and painter Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno will read from his book-length translations, The Destruction of the Jaguar: Poems From the Book of Chilalem Balam, and Concerning the Angels: Rafael Alberti and Barbarous Nights. Sawyer-Lauçanno is a prominent translator of ancient texts of the Mayans, Africans, and other people of color. Patricia Pruitt, a poet from Turners Falls, Massachusetts, will read her poems that are inspired by Sawyer-Lauçanno's paintings in Octave.
	Zoe Beloff Lecture: Wednesday, October 11, 7pm Mount Royal Station Auditorium A Mechanical Medium: A Stereoscopic Séance Few people know that Thomas Edison spent the last 10 years of his life attempting to build an apparatus to communicate with the dead Ñ a contraption he characterized as a mechanical medium. Though his device was never found, we will attempt, in the spirit of his enquiry, to do the impossible, to conjure up phantoms and glimpse the hereafter.
	Houston A. Baker, Jr. Reading: Monday, October 16, 5:45 - 6:45pm Recepting Following Bunting Center 110 Poetry Reading Houston A. Baker, Jr., one of the most influential African-American critics of his generation, is also a poet. He will read from his books Spirit Run, Blues Journey Home, and No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black. Baker has recently been named editor of American Literature, the oldest and most prestigious journal of American literary studies. His most recent books include: Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance and Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. He is the Susan Fox and George D. Beischer Professor of English at Duke University.
	Suzanne Joelson Lecture: Monday, October 16, 7pm Reception Following Mount Royal Station Auditorium Slip, Bump, Jump, Detaching Suzanne Joelson is currently an instructor of painting and color at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her most recent exhibitions were at Vassar College and Debs Company. She was the costume designer for Robert Kovich and Dancers and the Don Gordon Pick Up Company. She was also a guest editor for the winter and autumn issues of Tema Celeste. In her discussion, she will reveal the auxiliary practices that help clarify her work, and talk about artists whose work is aided by parallel activity in other media.
	Alan Rath Lacture: Thursday, October 19, 7pm Mount Royal Station Auditorium I Pity Inanimate Objects Artist and MIT-trained engineer Alan Rath makes sculpture/machines in which technology is both the subject and the medium of the work. He is among several San Francisco Bay Area artists whose work balances between the visual arts world and the high-tech industry of Silicon Valley. Standing on the cusp of both realities, he maintains a commitment to experimentation and a dedication to the use of new materials in art making.
	Barbara DeCesare Reading: Monday, October 30, 5:45 - 6:45pm Reception Following Bunting Center 110 Poetry Reading Irreverent and honest, Barbara DeCesare's first book, jigsaweyesore, is a cult phenomenon. Her work has been published in dozens of journals and literary magazines nationwide, including River Stix, Porcupine, and Gargoyle.
	Jim Melchert Lecture: Monday, October 30, 7pm Mount Royal Station Auditorium When Green Is Expected To Be Red: Popular Myths and Misconceptions and the Beleaguered Artist Jim Melchert will give an illustrated talk questioning commonly held notions about art that interfere with the process of artmaking. A West Coast artist best known for his work in ceramics, he has exhibited at the museums of modern art in Tokyo, Kyoto, Paris, and San Francisco. Melchert taught sculpture and new genres at UC Berkeley for 20 years, served as Director of the Visual Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, and was Director of the American Academy in Rome. The Maryland Institute awarded him an honorary degree in 1993.
	Elizabeth Spires Reading: Monday, November 6, 5:45 - 6:45pm Reception Following Bunting Center 110 Poetry Reading Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Elizabeth Spires is the author of four collections of poetry including: Globe, Swan's Island, Annonciade, and Worlding. She edited and introduced The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose of Josephine Jacobsen. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and daughter and is a Professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair of Distinguished Achievement.
	Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Lecture: Wednesday, November 8, 7pm Mount Royal Station Auditorium Maryland Institute Residency Series Public Lecture Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe is a painter, critic, and writer. He is the Coordinator of the MFA Program in Fine Art and the MA Program in Criticism at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His latest book is Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime. A nationally exhibited painter, his most recent one-person show was held at the Genovese-Sullivan Gallery in Boston in 1999. His lecture is in conjunction with a week-long residency at the College.
	Mary Miss Lecture: Thursday, November 9, 7pm Mount Royal Station Auditorium Art in the Public Realm Maryland Institute alumna Mary Miss 68 has worked with the Neuberger Museum, the University of Houston, Des Moines Art Center, Rutgers University, and many others as a landscape architect and installation artist. Two of her current projects include the 14th Street Union Square Subway Station in New York and the Milwaukee Riverwalk a half-mile stretch that encourages walkers to explore the relationship of the city to the river. The path provides stopping places, viewing points and access to the river.
	Elizabeth Finch Lecture: Monday, November 13, 1pm Mount Royal Station Auditorium Paper, Scissors, Stone: Contemporary Drawing and Other Creative Battles This lecture will address contemporary drawing by focusing on the work of established and emerging artists, many of whom have sought to take up and/or critique the traditions and hierarchies associated with drawing. We will question the current relevance of the historical definition of drawing as a "unique work on paper." How did this definition come about and how does it serve or hinder artists today? We will also address the play between drawing and other artistic disciplinesÑfilm, painting, new technologies, sculpture.
	Allegra Marquart Exhibition: November 11 - December 14 Reception: Thursday, November 16, 6-7pm Pinkard Gallery City Romance Faculty member Allegra Marquart will show City Romance, a series of etchings depicting moments on the streets of Baltimore. Funny and sometimes scary, her work is filled with poignant memories of childhood, adolescence, romance, and living in the city. Marquart has collections at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Chöateau de Lesvault in Onlay, France, among others.
	Critical Art Ensemble Lecture: Thursday, November 16, 6pm Mount Royal Station Auditorium Tactical Media Critical Art Ensemble is a collective of five tactical media artists of various specializations dedicated to exploring the intersections among art, film/video, photography, text art, book art, technology, radical politics, and critical theory. Formed in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble will use this lecture to focus on the use of tactical media as part of a practice of resistance, using their own work as examples of such a practice. Their work is in the collection of The Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Tate Gallery in London, among others.
	Donald Baechler Lecture: Monday, November 27, 7pm Mount Royal Station Auditorium Stupidity in Art MICA alumnus Donald Baechler 78 is an internationally recognized painter and sculptor. His work is represented in major museums, and in corporate and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, and the Musée D' Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris. He is on the Board of Governors of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He lives and works in New York City and in Amagansett, Long Island.
	Trinh T. Minh-ha Lecture: Wednesday, December 6, 7pm Langsdale Auditorium Maryland Institute Residency Series Public Lecture Trinh T. Minh-ha is a world-renowned documentary feminist filmmaker and expert on avant-garde and third-world, postcolonial film theory. She has written numerous books including Cinema Interval, 1999; Drawn From African Dwellings (in collabration with Jean-Paul Bourdier), 1996; and Framer Framed, 1992. She teaches in teh Women's Studies Department of the University of California at Berkeley. Her lecture is in conjunction with a week-long residency at the College.
	Icon Culture Exhibition: November 17 - December 17 Reception: Thursday, November 16, 5 - 7pm Decker Gallery Curated Exhibition From the Estate of Simon Gouverneur Born in the Bronx, Simon Gouverneur was an artist of Venezuelan and Afro-Caribbean heritage who lived in New York, Venezuela, Spain, Italy, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC. He taught at MICA in the 1980s. His theories on art had a profound impact on his students, artist peers, and critics. His erudite paintings incorporate a personal lexicon of images and symbols abstracted from world cultures and sacred practices. Deeply mystical and intellectually challenging, the paintings function like mandalas for meditation.
	Resident Artists from Rochefort-en-Terre Pinkard Gallery Vie De Château Et Vie D'Artiste Second Annual Exhibition This is the second annual exhibition of works by artists who have been at the Maryland Institute's program at Rochefort-en-Terre, France.
	Dutch Graphic Designer Exhibition: January 13 - Febuary 11 Reception: Thursday, January 25, 5 - 7pm Decker Gallery Roadshow: Dutch Graphic Design (1990-2000) This exhibition presents posters, stamps, banknotes, books, magazines, corporate identities, house styles, brochures, typefaces, and websites produced by top designers and studios in different areas of the Netherlands. Participants include Anthon Beeke, Studio Dumbar, Gerard Hadders, Visser/Bay/Anders/Toscani, Bureau Piet Gerards, Mediamatic, Jop van Bennekom, Thomas Bxo, and Erik van Blokland.
	Six Artists Exhibition: January 13 - Febuary 11 Reception: Thursday, January 25, 6 - 8pm Meyerhoff Gallery Landscape/LandUse Traveling Exhibition This exhibition features the work of six artists of varying cultural backgrounds who combine a strong sense of contemporary landscape with an understanding of how cultural heritage influences their perception of the environment. The works by Chris Burnett, David T. Hanson, Masumi Hayashi, Silvia Malagrino, Sharon Stewart, and Toshio Yamane reflect an acute consciousness of the relationship between place and personal history as well as a desire to share different cultural attitudes toward land.
	Dennis Farber Exhibition: January 19 - Febuary 18 Reception: Thursday, January 25, 6 - 8pm Pinkard Gallery Exhibition Faculty exhibition by Dennis Farber, interim director of the Mt. Royal School of Art.