Lecture: Julie Mehretu
February 5, 2008
118 Psychology, 7 p.m.

Part of the Art & Art History Department's Guest Lecture Series.

Friends of KAM Fundraiser:
Meet Julie Mehretu and Jessica Rankin at Their Studio
February 7, 2008
Address provided upon reservation, Okemos, MI, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

Julie Mehretu is an internationally-known artist who spent much of her childhood in East Lansing. Her work is currently featured at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and she was the recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship. Jessica Rankin's work is also widely known, with a 2006 exhibition at P.S. 1 in New York.

Mehretu and Rankin share a 7,500 square foot studio in Okemos. This open studio is an extraordinary opportunity to view work in progress by these world-renowned artists. For more information on the artists and this special event, click here to download a PDF invite. Space is limited and RSVPs for this event must be received no later than Feb. 1. Call the museum at (517) 353-9834, or fill out and return the PDF reply card.

Film: Ménilmontant (37 min, 1926) and La glace à trois faces (33 min, 1927)
February 8, 2008
MSU Main Library, W449, 7 p.m.

Part of the MSU Libraries' Friday Night Film Series.

Speaker: Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of Film Studies, MSU.

This showing of two French Impressionist films will highlight linkages between the philosophies of the Impressionist painters in the 19th century, and French Impressionist filmmakers in the 1920s. Impressionist film created a series of images which forced the audience to participate, putting various parts together into a whole.

Lecture: Self-fashioning in the Harlem Renaissance: James VanDerZee’s Identical Twins
February 11, 2008
108 Kresge Art Center, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture by Louise Siddons, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, MSU.

Part of the Art and Art History Department's Guest Lecture Series.

Museum Studies Program Featured Lecture: Revitalize, Reinterpret, Reinstall: Creating the New Detroit Institute of Arts
February 13, 2008
S107 South Kedzie Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Dr. David Penney has been at the Detroit Institute of Arts since 1980, serving as curator of Native American Art, Chief Curator, and since 2003, Vice President of Exhibitions and Collections Strategies. In this capacity he directed the DIA reinstallation project, the planning, design and installation of 5000 objects from the permanent collection in 150,000 square feet of renovated gallery space. He has oversight of the DIA exhibition program. He will discuss the innovative and integrative approach the DIA staff took to the reinstallation of the collection, a six-year planning process that has resulted in some of the most innovative educational strategies in the museum field. Penney has served as a consultant on exhibitions of Native American art to numerous museums across the country and authored "Native North American Art," Thames and Hudson World of Art Series, 2004.