Monday, April 02, 2007
Visiting art professor to discuss painted story quilts
 Vivien Green Fryd, professor of art history and American studies at Vanderbilt University, will be at USI on Monday, April 9, to discuss her current research on Faith Ringgold, an artist best known for her painted story quilts, art that combines painting, quilted fabric, and storytelling. Her talk is free and open to the public, and begins at 7:30 p.m. in Carter Hall in the University Center. Ringgold began her artistic career as a painter and has exhibited in major museums all over the world. She is in the permanent collection of many museums, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. She has written and illustrated 11 children's books. Her first book, Tar Beach, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She has received more than 75 awards, fellowships, citations and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and seventeen honorary doctorates, one from her alma mater, The City College of New York. She is a professor of art at the University of California-San Diego. Fryd teaches American art from the colonial period to the present, as well as courses in nineteenth-century European art, methods in art history, American Studies, and gender studies. She is the author of Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1865 (Ohio University Press, 2001; reprint Yale University Press, 1992) and Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper (University of Chicago Press, 2003). She is currently writing a manuscript, Rape: Imaging and Imagining Sexual Violence in American Art; has written articles for The American Art Journal, The Winterthur Portfolio, and American Art, among others; and has contributed essays to a number of books, including Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy (HarperCollins, 1992), Critical Issues in American Art (Westview Press, 1998), and Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars (Duke University Press, 1998). |
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