[nativestudies-l] Fellowship Opportunity: Otsego Institute 2014

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

> Call for applications:
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> "Materials and Materiality in Native North American Art History"
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> 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
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> May 18-23, 2014
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> http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/oi 


Excerpt from the program description (see PDF attached below):

"The 2014 Otsego Institute for Native North American Art History will focus on two
interrelated issues of fundamental importance to advanced students in this field: the
connoisseurship of materials and the theorization of materiality.

Through workshops and close hands-on examination of objects in the Thaw Collection of
American Indian Art, as well as lectures, readings, and group discussions, we will
develop skills in identifying the materials, styles, and techniques of preparation used by
Native North American artists in the production of both historic and current art. At the
same time, we will explore Indigenous and Western intellectual engagements with
material phenomena: the nature and culture of materiality, how it embodies the spiritual,
and how different materialities – human, animal, environmental— act on each other in
artistic contexts.

The workshops will include presentations, discussions and hands-on examination of
original works of art. There will be time for participants to present informally their own
current and prospective dissertations and curatorial projects to co-participants and
faculty.

Seminar/Workshop Leaders and Resource Faculty
Janet Catherine Berlo (University of Rochester), Eva Fognell (Fenimore Art Museum),
Aaron Glass (Bard Graduate Center), Jonathan Holstein (art dealer), Joe D. Horse
Capture (National Museum of the American Indian), Aldona Jonaitis (Director,
University of Alaska Museum), Evan Maurer, (Director Emeritus, The Minneapolis
Institute of Arts), Ruth Phillips (Carleton University), Jolene Rickard (Cornell
University)."


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