SYMPOSIA

Window to the Southwest: The Eugene B. Adkins Collection
Friday, March 7, 2008

“C.M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné Symposium”
Saturday, October 20, 2007
at the CM Russell Museum in Great Falls, MT

Fresh Tracks: New Perspectives on the art of Charles M. Russell ( Fourth Biennial Symposium)
October 28, 2005, and all-day Saturday, October 29, 2005.
This symposium will focus on the art of Charles M. Russell.

Drawn to the Light: The Artists of Taos (Third Biennial Symposium)
October 2-3, 2003

Remington & Russell: Each in His Span (Second Biennial Symposium)
October 26, 2001
Held in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art,
Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art
October 6 – December 9, 2001

Don't Fence Me In!
Inaugural Symposium
September 10, 1999

LECTURES

“Photographer’s Double: the Historian as Photographer, the Photographer as Historian Lecturer”
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Lecture by Dr. Richard Steven Street, Photographer, Historian and Author
Description: The two-screen slide lecture describes the process by which Street sorted through 10,000 images to select a cover for Photographing Farmworkers in California (Stanford University Press, 2004). It explains the complicated thinking that underlies a seemingly simple decision. As a residual effect, it takes the viewer on a 150-year visual journey through the history of a class of people, as documented by some of the best photographers on earth.

“The Art of Larry McNeil: Fly by Night Mythology Lecturer”
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Lecture by Larry McNeil (Tlingit-Nishka), Professor of Photography, Boise State University and Award-Winning Artist
Description: Larry McNeil is exploring the notion of American Mythology with his "Fly by Night Mythology" art. The art is a critical, yet lively inquiry about what happens at the intersection of cultures where satire, humor and irony play leading roles.

“Burning Man: On the Trail of Maynard Dixon Lecturer”
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Lecture by Donald J. Hagerty, Author and Art Historian Description
Description: Through the use of Maynard Dixon's writings and selected images, the lecture traces the evolution of his art and how his landscape, Native American, and Depression-era paintings responded to the fading away of an Old West and the emergence of a New West.

"New Art Indigenous to the Soil": The Santa Fe Colony and Native American Fine Art"
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Lecture by Dr. Suzan Campbell, Gund Curator of Western Art, History, and Culture at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

“Telling the Truth: Three Photographers of the American West”
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Lecture by Jonathan Spaulding, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Museum of the American West, Autry National Center

“Staking a Claim in Custer County: The Homesteading Experience and the Solomon D. Butcher Photographic Archive (1886-1892)”
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Lecture by Dr. M. Melissa Wolfe, Associate Curator of American Art at the Columbus Museum of Art

"Thomas Moran and the Chromolithograph Controversy"
Friday, December 8, 2006
Lecture by Dr. Joni L. Kinsey, Professor of American Art history (specializing in American western art)
at the University of Iowa

"White wanderers of the wilderness" Charles Deas's Paintings of Trappers and Indians
Thursday, October 5, 2006
Lecture by Dr. Carol Clark, Professor of Fine Arts and American Studies, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

“New Definitions for Western American Art in the Twenty-First Century”
April 28, 2005
Lecture by Director James Ballinger, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

“Exploring Charlie Russell’s Yarns”
February 10, 2005
Lecture/Presentation by Dr. Raphael Cristy,
Award-Winning Historian/Actor of Albuquerque, New Mexico

“Seth Eastman: Illustrating Native Life”
November 4, 2004
Lecture by Dr. Sarah Boehme, John S. Bugas Curator, Whitney Gallery of Western Art
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming

“Red Cloud, Photography, and the Challenge of Native American Biography”
October 7, 2004
Lecture by Dr. Frank Goodyear, Assistant Curator of Photographs
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

“Keep Your Plant and Water It’: The Art of the Dallas Nine”
April 29, 2003
Lecture by Dr. Sam Ratcliffe, Head of Bywaters Special Collections, Hamon Arts Library,
and Lecturer, Department of History, Southern Methodist University

“Wildlife Art: Kitsch or Kunst?”
February 13, 2003
Lecture by Dr. Francine Carraro, Executive Director, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

“George Catlin in Indian Territory”
November 14, 2002
Lecture by Dr. Joan Troccoli, Director, Institute of Western American Art, Denver Museum of Art

“Why Bodmer? A Scientific Illustrator in the American West”
October 24, 2002
Lecture by Dr. Ron Tyler, Executive Director, Texas State Historical Association
Professor of Art History, University of Texas, Austin

“Object Lessons:  Connoisseurship and American Western Art”
March 1, 2001
Lecture by Eric Widing, Vice President and Senior Specialist, American Paintings and Sculpture,
Christie’s, New York

"Collecting Vintage Charles M. Russell Postcards"
December 7, 2000
Lecture by Joe Crosby, Collector and Chairman Emeritus of the Oklahoma Arts Institute.
Mr. Crosby also serves on the Friends of the Russell Center Advisory Board.

“The Mountain Landscapes of Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran: Düsseldorf versus Turner”
November 2, 2000
Lecture by Dr. Linda Ferber, Andrew Mellon Curator of American Art,  
Brooklyn Museum of Art

“Georgia O’Keeffe & the West”
October 5, 2000
Lecture by Lisa Messinger, Assistant Curator of 20th-Century Art,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Establishing an Oklahoma Landscape”
April 20, 2000
Lecture by Steve Hill, Head of the University of Oklahoma Landscaping
Sponsored by Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment (IPE and OUr Earth)

“Apaches and Cutthroats: A Search for Native Western Trout”
part of the series, “Working in the West: Four Contemporary Artists”
December 2, 1999
Lecture by Don Longcrier, University of Oklahoma graduate, MFA, Painting, 1994
Held in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art,
Art of the American West
August 28 – November 28, 1999

“Way Out West”
part of the series, “Working in the West: Four Contemporary Artists”
November 11, 1999
Lecture by Dan Kiacz, Brian E. & Sandra O’Brien President’s Professor, Printmaking,
University of Oklahoma School of Art
Held in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art,
Art of the American West
August 28 – November 28, 1999

“Tracing History Through Cowboy Song”
November 10, 1999
Lecture by Jana Fallin, Professor of Music, Kansas State University

“Battleships, Pickups and Intrigues”
part of the series, “Working in the West: Four Contemporary Artists”
October 21, 1999
Lecture by Burt Harbison, University of Oklahoma graduate, MFA, Painting, 1993
Held in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art,
Art of the American West
August 28 – November 28, 1999

“Multiple Images of a Complex Nature: Landscape Photography of the
American Southwest”
part of the series, “Working in the West: Four Contemporary Artists”
September 30, 1999
Lecture by Chad D. Smith, Assistant Professor, Photography,
University of Oklahoma School of Art
Held in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art,
Art of the American West
August 28 – November 28, 1999

"Nancy" (Nancy Russell)
September 10, 1999
Theatrical Presentation by Author and Actress Joan Stauffer. Ms. Stauffer also serves on the Friends of the Russell Center Advisory Board.


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