WGS hosting "A Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson" a feminist art historian from UC Berkeley on 5/8
Join renowned feminist art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson for a conversation about her work in, and the relationships between, feminism, the visual arts, and cultural production. In particular, Dr. Bryan-Wilson will discuss the path that led to her career in the visual arts, art history, and feminism, and we will explore the opportunities— and challenges—that are involved for scholars, artists, activists, and other professionals identified as feminists in the visual arts, and in cultural production more generally, in our current moment.
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Time: 11:10AM-12PM
Location: Bldg. 10, Rm. 115
Title: A Conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson
Abstract: Join renowned feminist art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson for a conversation about her work in, and the relationships between, feminism, the visual arts, and cultural production. In particular, Dr. Bryan-Wilson will discuss the path that led to her career in the visual arts, art history, and feminism, and we will explore the opportunities—and challenges—that are involved for scholars, artists, activists, and other professionals identified as feminists in the visual arts, and in cultural production more generally, in our current moment.
About Julia Bryan-Wilson: Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of modern and contemporary art in the History of Art Department at U.C. Berkeley, where she teaches classes that focus on art since 1960 in the US, Europe, and Latin America; she is also the Director of the U.C. Berkeley Arts Research Center. Her research interests include theories of artistic labor, feminist and queer theory, performance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices. She is the author of books such as Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California Press, 2009, named a best book of the year by Artforum); Art in the Making: Artists and Their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing (with Glenn Adamson, Thames & Hudson, 2016); and Fray: Art and Textile Politics (University of Chicago, 2017, a New York Times best art book of the year), and her articles have appeared in Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Artforum, Camera Obscura, differences, Grey Room, October, Parkett, Journal of Modern Craft, Oxford Art Journal, and TDR: The Drama Review, among many other venues. She was the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in Spring 2014, and from fall 2014 to spring 2015 she was a Townsend Center for the Humanities Associate Professor Fellow. In 2017 she was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, DC. In 2018-19 she will be the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor at Wililams College.
In addition, with Andrea Andersson, Dr. Bryan-Wilson curated Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, which opened at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans in 2017 and will travel to the Berkeley Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, and the ICA in Philadelphia. She is currently writing a book about Louise Nevelson (under advanced contract with Yale University Press), which was awarded a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities summer research grant.