Richardson Family Art Museum, Thursday, April 11, 6 p.m. Curator’s talk by Maya Gentilin
Richardson Family Art Museum, Thursday, April 25, 5 p.m. Artist talk by Yanique Norman
Richardson Family Art Museum, Friday, March 22, 5 p.m. Curator’s talk by Olivia Hartley
Richardson Family Art Gallery, Thursday, Feb. 22, 6 p.m. Artist talk and closing reception
Richardson Family Art Museum, Nov. 6-Dec. 8
Introduced by Jessica Scott-Felder and moderated by Dr. Begoña Caballero and Diana Farfán Valente
Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, 5 p.m., Room 112, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
Thursday, Oct. 12, 6 p.m., Richardson Family Art Gallery
Wednesday, September 6, 6 p.m., Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts, Room 112
Thursday, September 7, 6 p.m., Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre
Thursday, September 14, 6 p.m., Richardson Family Art Museum
Closing Reception, Thursday, July 6, 6 p.m.
Curator’s talk by Lizzie Richards ’23
Thursday, May 4, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery talk by Dr. Robert Mayhew
Thursday, April 20, 6:30 p.m.
By Dr. Robert Mayhew
Tuesday, March 14, 6 p.m.
Leonard Auditorium
In this discussion, Dr. Robert Mayhew will tell the story of a curious collection of paintings once housed in the Church of Carolus Borromeus in Antwerp, a fabulously Baroque church built at the height of the Counter-Reformation. The paintings are a unique example of artistic collaborations in the 17th century and provide an illuminating case study in the intersection of economics, art, and cultural history.
Gallery talk by Gretchen Schermerhorn and Dr. Kaye Savage
March 1, 6 p.m.
By Walker Antonio ’23, 2023 Whetsell Exhibition
Artist talk, Thursday, Feb 16., 5:30 p.m.
False Starts will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Gallery, Oct. 31 - Dec. 15, 2022. Combining a wide range of materials and processes, from 3d modeling and digital fabrication to traditional painting and woodworking, False Starts is a reflection on the many paths available to artists who are often torn between their desire to explore and their need to advance.
Anne Frank: A History for Today will be on display in the Martha Cloud Chapman Gallery, Sept. 19 - Nov. 19, 2022. Dr. Stevick’s encounters with violent extremism at the turn of the century demonstrated that the hateful racism and antisemitism that inspired the Holocaust persist; from that time forward, he dedicated his career to understanding, combatting—and particularly, preventing—the kinds of ideologies that divide and threaten us.
Michaela Pilar Brown | CONTERMINOUS Elegies will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Museum, Sept. 1 - Dec. 15, 2022. Following the artist’s talk will be a reception for Michaela Pilar Brown’s exhibition in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts.
The Shape I’m In: Tri State Sculptors Member Exhibition will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Gallery, Sept. 1 - Oct. 8, 2022.
McCallum & Halsey: At Home and Abroad, presented by the Johnson Collection, will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Museum, Sept. 1 - Dec. 15, 2022.
Dr. Peter L. Schmunk: Photographs 2010 – 2022 will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Museum from May 5 to July 30.
Dr. Peter L. Schmunk: Photographs 2010 – 2020 will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Museum from Feb. 4 to July 31.
From Botticelli to Tintoretto: Italian Renaissance Art from the Tobey and Bob Jones Collections will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Museum from Feb. 4 to May 17.
Quilted Stories will be on display in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts from Feb. 3 to March 21.
Grammy Award-winning violinist Johnny Gandelsman will play Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (arranged for violin) and other selections. For tickets, please contact Tree Falls New Music treefallsmusic.org.
Gummy Labyrinth will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Gallery from Jan. 21 to March 6.
As Wofford's 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover the visual representation of “la mujer,” or “the woman,” in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru. “Siendo mujer” means "being a woman," and Estes’ exhibition, “Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America” represents the conversations she shared with resilient, creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female experiences, and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant role in their art. It is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to tell through her work. All are invited to join us for curator’s talks with Estes on Oct. 24 at 6 p.m., Oct. 26 at 9 a.m., and Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. The talk on Nov. 21 is part of Spartanburg's monthly ArtWalk series. Siendo mujer will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Gallery from Oct. 17 to Dec. 20.
The Sandor Teszler Library celebrates its 50th anniversary this year! Students, alumni, and guests on campus for Homecoming and Family Weekend are encouraged to stop by the library to see the 50 and Forward exhibition and talk with the curators. All are also invited to join us for a gallery talk and special collections showcase in the Martha Cloud Chapman Gallery on Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. The exhibition will be on view in the library through Fri., Dec. 20.
From Edgar Allen Poe’s haunting tale of “The Gold Bug” (1843) to Flannery O'Connor’s biting short story “Good Country People” (1955), the Southern Gothic literary tradition has exhumed the American South’s aberrations, contradictions, and unique sense of dark humor. The exhibition Southern Gothic: Intersections of Art and Literature in the Johnson Collection, on display from Sept. 3-Dec. 14 in the Richardson Family Art Museum, examines how nineteenth-and twentieth-century artists borrowed from their literary peers, using a potent visual language to address the tensions between the South’s idyllic visions and its historical realities.This exhibition is guest curated by Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, a Ph.D. candidate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Johnson Collection’s 2019 graduate fellow. Join us at 7 PM on Oct. 17 for a free gallery talk and reception with Smith in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. This event is part of Spartanburg’s monthly ArtWalk series.
Visual artist, photographer, and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier delivers a Chapman Lecture in the Humanities, examining the ways in which art can be used as a powerful tool for social transformation.
Photographs from Frazier's collection The Notion of Family, on loan from the Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Gallery until Dec. 14. Spelman Curator of Collections Anne Collins Smith will deliver a gallery talk on Nov. 6 at 6:00 p.m.
Please join the artist's talk to meet Josh Holt to participate in the open viewing and critique.
Blake Gantt, Lila Greer, Sean Holmes, Marguerite McClary and Qilin Zeng, seniors with Studio Art minor will present artists’ talks.
Students in the upper-level course on Baroque Art will give research presentations on the paintings currently on view in the exhibition "Sacred and Secular: Netherlandish Baroque Paintings from Regional Collections." This symposium will take place in the lower level of the Richardson Family Art Museum, where the paintings may be seen and referenced directly. This is a public event to which all are invited, but art and art history majors will be especially interested in what their classmates are doing and what may be learned from their presentations about seeing, studying, and talking about works of art. Newly-declared majors are urged to attend one or the other day of presentations. Come and go as your schedule allows, and see what you will be doing in your future years of art history coursework.
Seventeenth-century Dutch artists depicted women of all ages engaged in an assortment of roles and tasks, ranging from wholesome domestic types, to prostitutes and greedy old hags. Despite the variety of themes, images of women, like all Dutch paintings, cannot be considered literal transcriptions of the life and times of contemporary Hollanders. To the contrary, they are fictitious constructs that creatively synthesize observed facts, artistic inventions, and longstanding conventions. In this sense then, these paintings more faithfully address contemporary ideals, prejudices, and popular thought concerning women. By systematically exploring paintings of women, this lecture will address the important question of how Dutch culture helped to forge specific subject matter in art that expressed specific points of view, ones that rarely coincided with actual circumstances.
Take a look at upcoming events on Wofford's calendar.