Bryn Mawr College Library Company of Philadelphia Rosenbach Museum & Library
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| All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise specified. RSVP's suggested. | |||
Friday, February 6 | Bryn Mawr College ARTIST TALK at 4:00PM Artist Maureen Connor will discuss her work in the context of the Picturing Women exhibition, highlighting her own poignant, provocative responses in such cross-media works as "Growing Older" (on view in Canaday Library Gallery) to historical, gendered patterns of "figuring" women as the objects of others' imaginings. | |||
Friday,March 5 | Library Company PUBLIC LECTURE at 3:30PM Fashion, Fetish, Folly: Corsets and the Feminine Ideal In this generously illustrated slide talk, Kristina Haugland , Asst. Curator of Costumes and Textiles, Philadelphia Museum of Art will briefly examine the historical context for the development of the corset before focusing on corsets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and discussing ideals of beauty and attitudes towards the corset, the practice of extreme 'tight lacing,' zealous attempts at reform, and ways in which each of these manipulated the picturing of female identity. | |||
PUBLIC LECTURE at 4:30PM The Bride Wore Trousers : Transgressing the Rules of Dress and Undress in the World of New Eden Artist/author Cynthia Greig will discuss her installation The Bride Wore Trousers and how she came to invent the fictional town of New Eden and the character of artist Isabelle Raymond in order to examine the visual conventions for representing gender. The installation offers a kind of alternative archive and perspective from which to reconsiderstereotypical images of the body. (A portion of The Bride Wore Trousers is on display at the Library Company as part of the Picturing Women exhibition.) | |||
PUBLIC PERFORMANCE at 7:30PM Unlacing the Victorian Woman Costume designer/historian Barbara Darlin presents a look at the private life of a fashionable turn-of-the-century society lady--with an onstage costume change, right down to her chemise. She talks about daily routines, social customs,women's role in the family, and etiquette, performing the "fashioning" of female identity within the conventions of a certain class at a certain time. | |||
Wednesday, February 25 | Rosenbach Museum & Library PUBLIC LECTURE at 6:00PM "Phyllis without a frown or smile": Picturing Women in Late 17th-Century English Song | Denworth Room, 2nd floor An evening filled with the music of the Restoration courts of Charles II and James II, both on the throne during the time that the Duchess Mazarin--the focus of the Picturing Women installation at the Rosenbach--captured the hearts of English royals and courtiers alike. Professor Andrew Walkling of SUNY Binghamton will explore how the lyrics and music of English song and ode defined textual and musical conventions for the 'picturing' of women at the English court. | |||
Wednesday, March 17 | Rosenbach Museum & Library SPECIAL ENCORE PERFORMANCE | |||
Thursday,March 25 | Bryn Mawr College PUBLIC LECTURE at 4:30PM Subjects and Objects:Women in the History of Visual Representation | Carpenter Library 21 Lecture by Lisa Saltzman ,Associate Professor,History of Art and Director, Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College | |||
Friday, April 16 | Library Company PUBLIC PERFORMANCE at 7:30PM Yonder Come Day , one-woman show commissioned for Picturing Women project Renowned storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston will mine the collections of the Library Company to craft a new, one woman show commissioned for the Picturing Women project. Telling stories from the lives of women of color represented in 19th-and 20th-century biographies, political lampoons, diaries, and a range of other source materials, Alston will bring to life a new set of voices--a new set of portraits--in her own rich,magical telling. | |||
Thursday, April 22 | Bryn Mawr College GALLERY TALK at 4:30PM Philadelphia-based artist Merrill Mason will discuss her work in the context of the Picturing Women exhibition, focusing in particular on her Red Robe and Personal Effects series, on view at Bryn Mawr, as telling narrative portrayals of identity across media. | |||
