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- Great Teaching Round-up
- Leading from the middle
- fall conference for faculty leaders
- The Texas Network
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Events: 2010 Art Schedule
Art Summary
Friday, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
"Introducing Art History"
Speaker: Michael Cothren, Professor of Humanities, Swarthmore College
Friday, 2:30 p.m.
TOUR of the Rienzi Mansion
Anyone Welcome - $20.00 entrance fee
Reservation Required no later than March 1st, by emailing KARMIEN.BOWMAN at tccd.edu
Saturday, 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
"Harnessing New Technology in Teaching Art History and Art Appreciation: Transforming the Classroom Experience with Google Earth"
Speaker: Fred Kleiner, Professor and Chair of Art History, Boston University
Friday, March 5th, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
"Introducing Art History"
Speaker: Michael Cothren, Professor of Humanities, Swarthmore College
Michael is the new co-author on Marilyn Stokstad, Art History text. This text is widely popular because it is the most student friendly, contextual, and inclusive text on the market.
Biography:
Michael W. Cothren is Scheuer Family Professor of Humanities at Swarthmore College, where he has also served as Art Department Chair, Coordinator of Medieval Studies, and Divisional Chair of the Humanities. Since arriving at Swarthmore in 1978, he has taught specialized courses on Medieval, Roman, and Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on visual narrative and on theory and method, but he particularly enjoys teaching the survey to Swarthmore beginners. His research and publications focus on French Gothic art and architecture, most recently in a book on the stained glass of Beauvais Cathedral entitled Picturing the Celestial City. Michael is a consultative curator at the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of the International Center of Medieval Art and as President both of the American Committee of the International Corpus Vitrearum and of his local school board. When not teaching, writing, or pursuing art historical research, you can finding him hiking in the red rocks around Sedona, Arizona.
Friday, March 5th, 2:30 - 5:00 p.m.
TOUR of the Rienzi Mansion
Anyone Welcome - $20.00 entrance fee
Opened to the public in 1999, Rienzi is the center for European decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Comprising a remarkable art collection, a house, and gardens, Rienzi was given to the museum by arts patrons Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III.
This handsome residence, named for Rienzi Johnston, Mr. Masterson's grandfather, is situated on 4.4 acres in Homewood Addition, surrounded by Houston's River Oaks neighborhood. The structure was designed in 1952 by John F. Staub, the same architect who designed Bayou Bend.
Rienzi served as both a family home and a center for Houston civic and philanthropic activity from its completion in 1954, through Mrs. Masterson's death in 1994, and until Mr. Masterson's death in 1997.
Rienzi: Center for European Decorative Arts
Reservation Required no later than March 1st, by emailing KARMIEN.BOWMAN at tccd.edu
Saturday, March 6th, 9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
"Harnessing New Technology in Teaching Art History and Art Appreciation: Transforming the Classroom Experience with Google Earth"
Speaker: Fred Kleiner, Professor and Chair of Art History, Boston University
New technologies have dramatically transformed the way we teach art history and art appreciation in college classrooms. One of the most exciting new products is Google Earth, a free software program that enables instructors to roam the globe from a satellite in orbit and to "fly" students to sites on any continent. Google Earth is a tool that can provide a dazzling and riveting experience for students in a variety of disciplines, but it is especially useful in teaching architecture and city design, two of the most difficult subjects for students studying art history and art appreciation for the first time. Professor Kleiner will present a primer on how Google Earth can be customized and used not only as an unlimited digital image bank for PowerPoint presentations, but as a way to walk students through cities; to illustrate the geographical and geological setting of buildings and monuments and their relationship to other buildings, monuments, and the surrounding landscape; to create maps and plans that students will actually want to look at and learn from; and to explain complicated architectural devices like flying buttresses. Examples will be chosen from all periods and from several different regions in both hemispheres.
Fred Kleiner discusses bringing your
lessons to life on TCCTA Online!
Biography:
Fred S. Kleiner is the author of Gardner's Art through the Ages, the number one text for introductory art history courses, renowned for its authoritative scholarship, superb image quality, innovative pedagogy, and outstanding technology support. Professor Kleiner has taught the art history survey course for more than three decades, first at the University of Virginia and, since 1978, at Boston University, where he is currently Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Chair of the Art History Department. From 1985 to 1998, he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology, the official journal of the Archaeological Institute of America and the most widely read archaeological journal in the world. Long acclaimed for his inspiring lectures and devotion to students, in 2002 Professor Kleiner won Boston University's highest honor, the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. The same year he received the College of Arts and Sciences Prize for Undergraduate Advising in the Humanities, and he is also a two-time winner of the Distinguished Teaching Prize in Boston University's Honors Program. The recipient of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he has published articles and reviews in all the leading journals of art history and archaeology in North America and Europe. Professor Kleiner was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2007, and, in 2009, in recognition of lifetime achievement in publication and teaching, a Fellow of the Text and Academic Authors Association.
Art Section Chair:
Karmien C. Bowman, Tarrant County College - Northeast