<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size: medium; "><div class="iw_mail" dir="LTR"><b>Call for applications:</b><br><br><br>"Materials and Materiality in Native North American Art History"<br><br>A four-day workshop for graduate students and junior professionals sponsored by the Otsego Institute for Native American Art History, in cooperation with the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York<br><br>May 18-23, 2014<br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/oi" style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/oi</a> </div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Excerpt from the program description (see PDF attached below):</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"The 2014 Otsego Institute for Native North American Art History will focus on two</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">interrelated issues of fundamental importance to advanced students in this field: the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">connoisseurship of materials and the theorization of materiality.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Through workshops and close hands-on examination of objects in the Thaw Collection of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">American Indian Art, as well as lectures, readings, and group discussions, we will</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">develop skills in identifying the materials, styles, and techniques of preparation used by</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Native North American artists in the production of both historic and current art. At the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">same time, we will explore Indigenous and Western intellectual engagements with</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">material phenomena: the nature and culture of materiality, how it embodies the spiritual,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">and how different materialities – human, animal, environmental— act on each other in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">artistic contexts.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">The workshops will include presentations, discussions and hands-on examination of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">original works of art. There will be time for participants to present informally their own</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">current and prospective dissertations and curatorial projects to co-participants and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">faculty.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Seminar/Workshop Leaders and Resource Faculty</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Janet Catherine Berlo (University of Rochester), Eva Fognell (Fenimore Art Museum),</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Aaron Glass (Bard Graduate Center), Jonathan Holstein (art dealer), Joe D. Horse</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Capture (National Museum of the American Indian), Aldona Jonaitis (Director,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">University of Alaska Museum), Evan Maurer, (Director Emeritus, The Minneapolis</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Institute of Arts), Ruth Phillips (Carleton University), Jolene Rickard (Cornell</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">University)."</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><br></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="iw_mail" dir="LTR"><div class="signature"><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"></pre></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>