Events
All
events are free and open to the public.
For more information call (215) 898-2083 unless otherwise noted.
Upcoming Events
GALLERY TALK!!!
CREATION, FABRICATION, AND RESTORATION
THE ART OF STAINED GLASS
Given by artist Armelle Le Roux
in the Arthur Ross Gallery on Friday, March 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Please call 215-898-2083 for more information
This event is very generously sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts, Univ. of Penn
Past
Highlights
City-wide symposium organized by the University of the Arts
March 6-8, 2008.
http://www.uarts.edu/fiber_symposium/
For information about the symposium:
The Treasured Hunt: Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Past, Present, and Future, please click on the link below.
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/
Meet the artist, Larry Towell, of our current exhibition on
September 11, 2007 from 5-8pm
The Mennonites:
Photographs by Larry Towell
Acting Modern: A Symposium for the Exhibition Dramatic Impressions
Saturday, March 31, 2006
Logan Hall 17
University of Pennsylvania
The Center for East Asian Studies and the Department of the History
of Art are also co-sponsoring a symposium to be held March 31, 2007 in conjunction with the Dramatic Impressions Japanese Theatre Prints exhibition from March 17–May 6, 2007. The papers will engage issues concerned with Osaka print production and subjects; the Shin-hanga revival of woodblock printing in the early twentieth century; the 1923 Great Kantô earthquake; and Kabuki in the twentieth century; among others. There will also be a collector’s and curators’ forum on the exhibition. Speakers will include: C. Andrew Gerstle, SOAS, University of London; Sarah Thompson, MFA Boston; Kendall Brown, CSU Long Beach; Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke; Shirley Luber, Philadelphia; and Yoshie Endô, Frank L. Chance, and Julie Davis from the University of Pennsylvania.
Click here to see photos from the Goya opening recetion on Oct. 26, 2006
COME FOR A VERY SPECIAL RECITAL IN THE GALLERY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2006 at 6:30 PM
All Rochberg concert in honor of
George Rochberg (1918-2005)
Free and Open to the Public
Click here to view photos from the Argentine reception
Argenine Photographs by Annemarie Heinrich
Lecture given by curator Juan Travnik
Annemarie Heinrich and Argentine Photography
in conjunction with the Gallery's exhibition
Modern Latin American Culture
Annemarie Heinrich, Grande Dame of Argentine Photography
Thursday, September 14, 2006
3:30–5:00pm
Lecture located in Skirkanich Hall, Basement Level
The Harold and Renee Berger Auditorium
University of Pennsylvania
210 South 33rd Street
June 15, 2006
Opening Reception of the exhibition, Beauties and Other New Work.
Photographs by Evelyn Lauder
GALLERY TUESDAY TALKS and TOURS
for the Early Modern Painter-Etcher exhibition given by the guest curators!
Tuesday, May 16th at 5:00 PM
given by Madeleine Viljoen, Ph.D.
Director, La Salle University Art Museum
and
Tuesday, May 23 at 5:00 PM
given by Michael W. Cole, Ph.D.
Graduate Chair, History of Art Department
View photos from the Painter-Etcher Reception Event
View photos from the Anatolian Carpets Reception Event
Antique Anatolian Carpets. Masterpieces from Philadelphia Collections
Henry Glassie, College Professor of Folklore, Indiana University, Bloomington
will give a lecture on: Flowers of the Mountain: Anatolian Rugs Today
Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 5:00 pm
To be held in the Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th Street
This lecture is generously sponsored by the Graduate Program in
Folklore and Folklife, the Middle East Center, and the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania.
Lecture given by Walter Denny
History of Art Department, University of Massachusetts
From the Prayer Rug to the Medallion Carpet:
Architectural Themes and Functions in Islamic Carpets
Wednesday, February 1, 2006, 4:30 p.m.
210 S. 34th St. Meyerson Hall, B-3
Mapping the Pacific Coast
Opening Reception Photos from Mapping the Pacific Coast exhibition
View pictures from the Educational Program
Henry Wendt, Retired CEO and Chairman of the Board, SmithKline Beecham, Philadelphia, PA/Founder, Quivira Estate Vineyards and Winery
Wednesday, December 7, 5:00 pm
200 College Hall, 3450 Woodland Walk
Before the talk, be sure to visit the exhibition Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark, The Quivira Collection* at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th Street. This private collection of antique maps, books, and illustrations belonging to Henry and Holly Wendt is on display September 24, 2005 – January 8, 2006.
*Exhibition arranged in association with the 2005-2006 Penn Humanities Forum on Word and Image and the IAWIS/AIERTI 7th International Conference on Word & Image Studies.
Lecture and exhibition free.
Click here to view pictures from the reception event
of Whimisical Works. Playful Designs of Charles and Ray Eames
LECTURE
Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 2:00 p.m.
Lecture held in the Rainey Auditorium
at the Universtiy of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
View pictures from the Educational Program
Textiles of the Burma Hills
Dr. David Fraser, Research Associate in the Asian Section, shows how careful analysis of textile making can complement linguistics as a tool for studying a culture of fine weavers. The cultural importance of weaving among the Chin—an ethnic group living in Myanmar, India and Bangladesh—and the variety of weaving structures used by them are considered. After the lecture, Dr. Fraser leads a guided tour to the Arthur Ross Gallery’s newest exhibition, Textiles of the Burma Hills, which he curated along with Barbara Fraser and Alexandra Green.
Film Viewing:
"Fall of the Berlin Wall"
Monday, January 24, 2005 from 4:30-7:00pm
Room 306 Furness/Fisher Fine Arts Libary
Please call 215.898.3617 if you have any questions
Two lectures will be given by Penn Graduate art history student Jessica Boehman on Photographs of East Germany by Lutz Masanetz
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Monday, January 21, 2005 at 1:00 pm
Both lectures/tours will be in the Arthur Ross Gallery
Educational Event for GILB. Yellowed Images of a Vanished Country Photographs of East Germany by Lutz Masanetz
Opening Reception of GILB. Yellowed Images of a Vanished Country Photographs of East Germany by Lutz Masanetz
Lunchtime
Lectures:
Dreams or Reality? The Paintings of Scott Kahn
by Jessica Boehman, Department of the History of Art
Wednesday, October 13 and
Wednesday, October 20
12pm-1pm
September 9, 2004 at 5:00 pm
Lecture by Art Critic, David Cohen
Hyperattention: Fantasy Realism, Trance-like Technique and “Critical-Paranoid” Tendencies in Image-Making
PENN HUMANITIES FORUM, 3619 Locust Walk
to open a year-long dialogue on
“SLEEP AND DREAMS”
Wednesday
, July 21
Café
Nothing Reception
and Event, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Maestro Jonathan Sternberg will conduct a string trio in a performance of “4’ 33” by John Cage, first performed in 1952 and dedicated to artist Yoko Ono
6:00 – 6:15 pm.“Nothing Cabaret” will follow at 8:00 pm at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Café Nothing hours: Monday-Friday 12:00-5:00pm
Opening Reception of the exhibition, "Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford"
February
5, 2004, 5:00 p.m.
Lecture:
"Turkmen Carpets: Tribal
Messages from the Past"
by Dr. Elena Tsareva, Curator of Textiles, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg
Fisher Fine Arts Library, Room 306
Reception in the Gallery to follow, hosted by MR. JERRY M. SORKIN
J. M. Sorkin, Distinctive Rugs & More, Wayne, PA
Catered by Roya Restaurant, PhiladelphiaExhibition and lecture generously supported by the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania
In connection with the show, "History Through Deaf Eyes," a lecture series will be presented on June 14, 21, and 28, from 1 to 3 p.m. The series is sponsored by the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, and will take place in the Benjamin Franklin Room in Houston Hall, the student center at the University of Pennsylvania. The program will focus on deaf-culture related topics such as art, history, folklore, and images in movies and television.
Thursday, June 12, 2003: Opening Reception
Saturday, June 14: “The World of Deaf Art,” by Dr. Deborah M. Meranski (formerly Sonnenstrahl), Art Historian and author of Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary.
Saturday, June 21: Dr. John S. Schuchman, Professor Emeritus of Gallaudet University and author of Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry.
Saturday, June 28: “Deaf Culture and Folklore,” by Dr. Simon Carmel, Retired Associate Professor of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, and author of International Hand Alphabet Charts.
Saturday,
April 19, 2003
Steve
McCurry Book Signing
Wednesday,
April 9, 2003 5:30pm
“From
Timbuktu to Ground Zero”
Lecture by Steve
McCurry
3620 Walnut Street
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Events
for Darkwater: Recital
in Four Dominions
Terry Adkins After W.E.B. DuBois
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003, 7pm
POSTLUDE, with Robert Wisdom and Tukufu Zuberi, Arthur Ross GalleryThursday, Jan. 30, 2003, 7pm
MUFFLED DRUMS, with James Andrew Brown, Arthur Ross Gallery,Thursday, Feb. 6, 7pm
TITIAN, with Sherman Fleming, Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary ArtSunday, Feb. 23, 3pm
HIGH PRIEST, Du Bois birthday tribute with special guests reading from “Prayers for Dark People,” Arthur Ross Gallery
In Conjunction with the symposium, there will be a special tour of "Antiquity Recovered" on Saturday, October 5, 2002 beginning at 5:15pm. The tour is free and open to the public.
SYMPOSIUM October 4-5, 2002
Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum is an international and interdisciplinary symposium that will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on October 4-5, 2002. The symposium will coincide with the exhibition Antiquity Recovered: Pompeii and Herculaneum in Philadelphia Collections on view at the Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania from September 21-December 1, 2002. The symposium, which will be open to the public, will expand the premise of the exhibition to explore how the Bay of Naples archaeological excavations influenced responses to the classical tradition from the eighteenth century through the modern era in both Europe and America. For more information please visit http://www.mceas.org/october2002/.
September
3, 2002, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the 2002 New Student Orientation festivities, open
house at Arthur Ross Gallery will feature POSTERS/POSTERS/POSTERS:
20
Years of Gallery Graphics. Enjoy the evening with music by Byard
Lancaster and "Sounds of Newest Africa". Selected posters
from the
exhibition will be available for sale in the gallery.
June
14th, 2002, 5:00-8:00 pm
Opening reception
of the exhibition, "At
the Cutting Edge: The State of the Art Quilt"
Opening reception of the exhibition, "Leaving a Mark: The Art of the Print in 19th-Century France"
Opening reception of the exhibition, "North Americans in the Aegean Bronze Age: The Discovery of Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations."
Arthur Ross Gallery Educational Outreach Program for the exhibition, "Travels in the Labyrinth: Mexican Art from the Pollak Collection"
Opening Reception of the exhibition, "Travels in the Labyrinth: Mexican Art from the Pollak Collection"
Tuesday,
September 4, 2001, 7:00 to 8:00 pmNew Student Orientation
Opening Reception of the exhibition, "Transformation: Jews and Modernity." See photos from the reception.
Opening of John Schueler: About the Sky, sponsored by the Philadelphia Society of Alumnae, Sweet Briar College. See photos from the reception.
Celebrate in "Style" Drilling drums on the steps of the Furness building. Bayard Lancaster and the sounds of "Newest Africa." Stylish photographs by Sylvia Plachy in the Gallery. Free food, free music and free admission!
Opening reception for Edward Lear's Greece: 1848-1864. See photos from the reception.
Book signing and preview of the exhibition "On the Brink of the Twentieth Century: The Architecture of William L. Price."
Award-winning British travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron will read from his work "The Lost Heart of Asia" and discuss his travels in Uzbekistan.
5:30 pm at the Arthur Ross Gallery
In conjunction with GoWest's Third Thursday, Arthur Ross Gallery Holiday Party. See photos from the reception.
Opening Reception of the exhibition: "Treasures of Uzbekistan: The Great Silk Road". In attendance was his Excellency Ambassador Sodyq Safaev as well as a delegation from Uzbekistan.
In conjunction with GoWest's Third Thursday events the Gallery will be open from 5:00-8:00 p.m. On display will be Confronting Cancer Through Art and a reception will be given for artists, guests and the public.
July
24, 1999
Reception for Inevitable
Progression I, an exhibition of works by six emerging artists, featuring
sculpture, photography, mixed media and video installations.
June
19, 1999
Reception for Scott Caruther's "Awakening," an exhibition of
cyber art. 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Includes book signing by the artist.
May
15-17, 1999
For alumni weekend and graduation the Arthur Ross Gallery will be open
each day from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday,
May 20, 1999
As part of Go West's
Third Thursday events the Gallery will be open from 5:00-8:00 p.m. On
display will be Two
Views of Venice: Etchings by Canaletto and Menpes from the Collection
of the Arthur Ross Foundation.
Thursday,
April 15, 1999
Free presentation at 7:00 p.m. by Pennsylvania Pro Musica of J. S. Bach's
Art of the Fugue as part of Go
West's Third Thursday events. The Pro Musica string quartet will perform
the four simple fugues that begin the collection, then numbers 7, 8 (the
first triple fugue), 9 and 19. This presentation will also include a twenty
minute projection of the Art of Fugue in a new musical notation called
Visual Music SoundScapes followed by a brief discussion. The Gallery will
be open from 5:00-8:00 p.m. On display will be Two
Views of Venice: Etchings by Canaletto and Menpes from the Collection
of the Arthur Ross Foundation
Thursday,
April 8, 1999
Opening reception for Two
Views of Venice: Etchings by Canaletto and Menpes from the Collection
of the Arthur Ross Foundation from 5:00-8:00 p.m. See
photos from reception.
Thursday,
March 18, 1999
Free recital by internationally known Pro Musica Artist Judith Lovat,
Soprano, accompanied by Mathew Glandorf, Harpsichordist, in an 18th-Century
Song Recital at 7:00 p.m. as a part of Go
West's Third Thursday events. The Gallery will be open from 5:00-8:00
p.m. On display will be L.
N. Cottingham 1787-1847: Architect of the Gothic Revival in England and
Ireland.
Thursday,
January 21, 1999
Opening reception for L.N.
Cottingham 1787-1847: Architect of the Gothic Revival in England and Ireland
from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Gallery Talk and Exhibition Tour by Dr. Janet Myles,
Curator and Professor of the History of Art, De Montfort University at
4:00 p.m. See
photos from the reception.
February
19, 1998
Opening reception for Connections:
Contemporary Japanese and Korean Printmakers. See
photos from the reception.
December
17, 1998
Opening reception for Robeson
Remembered. See
photos from the reception.
October 15, 1998
Opening Reception for Sargent to Freud: Modern British Paintings and Drawings in The Beaverbrook Art Gallery. See photos from the reception.
September
13, 1996
Opening reception for A
Graphic Odyssey: Romare Bearden as Printmaker. See
photos from the reception.