Saturday, September 5, 200910:00 a.m. at Alumni Hall
Jefferson's architectural design for the University of Virginia, its inspiration and the process by which Jefferson constructed his iconic Academical Village will be discussed. Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, will show examples of Jefferson's original drawings and how he assembled support to create the University. In addition, expansions to the University's Grounds throughout the years will be highlighted. Andrea Douglas, curator of the University of Virginia Art Museum, will note the involvement of the University Art Museum with this project. The Harrison-Small Special Collections Library will also feature an exhibition that coincides this fall.
Bios Richard Guy Wilson holds the Commonwealth Professor's Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia. A frequent lecturer for universities, museums and professional groups, and a television commentator for "America's Castles," "American Experience" and The History Channel, he has also published widely with many articles and 16 books. He has served as lead curator and also as an advisor for major museum exhibitions at institutions such as The Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art, High Museum, Denver, San Francisco, Metropolitan, National Academy of Design, and others, including the Bayly or University Art Museum. He received the University of Virginia's Outstanding Professor award in 2001 and in 2007 he was the Thomas Jefferson Fellow at Cambridge University, England.
Andrea Douglas has been curator of collections and exhibitions at the University of Virginia Art Museum since 2004. In 2003, she served as curator and editor of the museum's collections catalogue, The Museum: Conditions and Spaces—Selections from the Collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum. Other publications include "Metaphysics of Identity," catalogue essay for the exhibition African American Women Artists, Randolph Macon College, February 2001, "Facing the Nation: Art History and Art Criticism in the Jamaican Context" in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (2004), "Carrie Mae Weems: Unraveling Subjectivity" in Carrie Mae Weems: To be Continued (2005), William Christenberry; Site/Possession (2007), for the traveling exhibition of the same title. Most recently she published an article in Exhibitionist entitled "Forming American Identities: Our Southern Legacy," Douglas received her B.A. in art history/biology from Mount Holyoke College, her MBA in arts management/finance from SUNY, Binghamton, and both her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses primarily on contemporary art of the African Diaspora. Recommended Readings
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