Lecture: Engaging New Audiences
Wednesday, April 17 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Julia Forbes is the Shannon Landing Amos Head of Museum Interpretation and Digital Engagement at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, where she develops exhibitions and participates in the creation of interactive spaces for families in a wide range of museum settings. In 2011 Forbes led the team that developed the High’s award-winning smartphone app “ArtClix.” Forbes previously held education positions at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington National Cathedral, the Walters Art Museum, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She served as the Eastern Region Director in the Education Division of the National Art Education Association, and was honored as the Eastern Museum Educator of the Year for 1998. She has degrees in Art History and Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree from the George Washington University in Art History/Museum Training.

Sponsored by the National Art Education Association Student Chapter at UGA and Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ICE-Vision: Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
Wednesday, April 3 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

Nagisa Oshima, chameleon filmmaker of the Japanese New Wave, directs this period drama about the murder of an innocent man by his young wife and her lover. After his death, the film “flirts with supernatural horror: visions of the dead man begin to drive his widow around the bend, and when she and her accomplice come together between the sheets, their sex is desperate with remorse” (J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader). The haunted refrain of a crying infant recalls an array of guilt-ridden literary works– “Macbeth,” “Crime and Punishment,” the classic story “Sleepy” by Chekhov–in this chilling and expertly-composed work from one of the late masters of Japanese cinema.

ICE-Vision: Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988)
Wednesday, March 27 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

“Czech puppet animator Jan Svankmajer began making shorts in 1964, but not until 1988 was he able to realize his dream of a feature adapting Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The world on the other side of Svankmajer’s looking glass is hilariously macabre: taxidermy is the controlling metaphor, as a live-action Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) descends an elevatorlike rabbit hole following a white rabbit that’s broken out of its glass display case. She enters a subterranean house populated by bizarre creatures constructed from small animals—mammal skulls top off bird or reptile torsos, and in one scene Alice is attacked by a shopping cart with bird wings and clawing feet… With its episodic structure, Carroll’s story is the perfect vehicle for Svankmajer’s dark, 30s-style surrealism.” – J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader