Thursday, August 14, 2014

Fine Arts and Communication

Departmental News

Michelle Kraft and Karen Keifer-Boyd authored "IDEA<->Empowerment Through Difference<->Find Card Strategies" in Exemplary Programs and Approaches, published by VSA Arts and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (2014). This publication can be accessed at the Kennedy Center website: http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/vsa/resources/2013_VSA%20Intersections_Exemplary_Programs_Approaches_2014.pdf 

Michelle Kraft served as a lecturer for the Texas Tech Museum Association's art history lecture series over several Fridays in the spring 2014 semester. Titles of her presentations were: "Self-Portrait, Self-Study, and Knowing Rembrandt" (January 31, 2014),  "Walking the Duchy of Burgundy: Highlights from Dijon to Beaune" (March 7), and "Amboise, Blois, Chambord, Chaumont, and Chenonceau: The ABC's of Loire Valley Chateaux" (April 18). 

She will present three art history lectures at the Texas Tech Museum in fall 2014: "The Advent of Photography: Effects on Impressionism" (September 19), "Berthe Morisot, Camille Claudel, and the Art Education of Women in the 19th century" (October 31), and "Claude Monet: The Master of the Changing Landscape" (November 14). Art history lectures take place every Friday of the semester at the Texas Tech Museum, 11:00 a.m., and are open to the public ($7 admission). Fall 2014 lectures complement the Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth) exhibition Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musee d'Orsay(October 19, 2014-January 25, 2015).

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