Bridging the Liberal Arts
12 – 1:00 pm, Thursday, March 30, 2023
The Gallery at UTA, 169 Fine Arts Building
Bridging the Liberal Arts Panel Discussion
Installation view of Bridges III exhibition at The Gallery at UTA, 2023. On loan from Art Bridges Foundation.
“Bridging the Liberal Arts” features scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and arts in conversation about artworks by Sherrie Levine and Edouard Duval-Carrié currently on view in the Bridges III exhibition in The Gallery at UTA. The works, generously on loan from Art Bridges Foundation, attest to myths and mythmaking in the Americas – exploring the histories, cultures, and questions our geographies, biographies, and identities both shape and by which they are shaped themselves. Panelists will address questions of history, cultural experience, identity, and how artistic reproduction of these issues can enrich and complexify such questions. Refreshments will be available for an informal discussion session in the gallery foyer immediately following the panel presentation.
Panelists
Dr. August Jordan Davis, Associate Professor & Chair, Gallery Director, Department of Art & Art History
August Jordan Davis is an art historian and curator who received her PhD in Art History from the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century art of North America and Western Europe, especially focused upon the convergence of art and politics, activist art, and feminist art and theory. Dr. Davis organized, and will moderate the panel discussion.
Dr. Stephanie Cole, Associate Professor, History
Stephanie Cole received her PhD in History in 1994 from the University of Florida. She is an associate professor of history at UTA, teaching courses in women’s history, the history of gender, race, sex and marriage, the history of work and leisure, as well as courses in historical research methods and teaching.
Dr. Kenneth Williford, Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Philosophy & Humanities
Kenneth Williford received his PhD in Philosophy in 2003 from University of Iowa, did post-doctoral work in Cognitive Science at the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée at the École Polytechnique, Paris, France in 2005, and a year of graduate study in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa from 2008-2009. He works primarily in Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, and the history of Modern Philosophy.
Dr. Beth S. Wright, Distinguished University Professor, Professor, Department of Art & Art History
Beth S. Wright received her PhD in the History of Art from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research centers on 18th and 19th century French art and its relationship to literature and historical representation. Dr. Wright served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Arlington from August 2003 to December 2014.