Baker-Nord "Cityscapes" Lecture Series
Site-Specific Cleveland: Don Harvey and Carl Pope
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 / 7 pm
FREE and open to the public
MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) Commons Area
8501 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland
www.mocacleveland.org Phone: 216/421-8671
Whether addressing social, political, cultural, racial, environmental, or ecological issues, art about Cleveland is significant to our region. But, how do projects about Northeast Ohio vary between artists who live here and artists who are just visiting? In this dialogue, distinguished Cleveland-based artist, Don Harvey and artist-in-residence, Carl Pope will discuss their work, comparing and contrasting what their respective “Cleveland projects,” have revealed about our people and places.
Pope is a joint fellow of Case Western Reserve University’s Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and The Cleveland Institute of Art for the fall of 2007; during this time he is creating a public art project to open in conjunction with the conference “Cityscapes” (March 27-30, 2008), jointly organized by CWRU’s Baker-Nord Center and the Liberal Arts Environment of the CIA. For this project, Pope is creating The Mind of Cleveland, a text-based poster and billboard work designed to externalize the collective dreams, visions, and desires of the Cleveland community. To learn more, visit Pope’s project website at www.themindofcleveland.com.
Co-founder of Cleveland Public Art and former editor of Dialogue magazine, Harvey has been an active and vital member of the Northeast Ohio art community for 36 years. In addition to his impressive exhibition resume, Harvey has received numerous grants and fellowships along with the Cleveland Arts Prize (1991). In his multi-media work, Harvey addresses the region’s urban environment physically and conceptually by integrating evocative materials like steel grids and toxic fluids with images of the city, its people, and its surrounding ecology.
Carl Pope
Recent Public Projects and "The Mind of Cleveland" Art Project
Thursday, November 29, 2007; 4:30 p.m.
Free Public Lecture
Wolstein Research Building (Auditorium), 2103 Cornell Road, Cleveland
Visitor parking available in Cornell Road Garage (entrances on Cornell & Mayfield Roads).
Conceptual artist Carl Pope will discuss his recent public art projects and his recent work, "The Mind of Cleveland". Pope is joint visiting fellow at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Art.
Earlier this year. . .
Third Annual Anisfield-Wolf/SAGES Lecture:
Taylor Branch
"Myth and Miracle From the King Years"
Friday, September 7, 2007
12:30 p.m., Severance Hall
11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Free Public Lecture
Reservations recommended
Register On-Line (Admission tickets not required)
Doors open at 11:45 a.m. for Case Western Reserve alumni, faculty, students, and staff. SAGES students will be seated on the first floor center aisles of the main hall. Doors open to the general public starting at 12:10 p.m.
Instructors' and Teachers' Resource Page
Pulitzer Prize winning author TAYLOR BRANCH emerged as a national authority on America's civil rights movement with the publication of his book trilogy: Parting the Waters: The King Years 1954-63 (won the Pulitzer Prize in History and was a National Book Award finalist), followed by Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 and At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. With passion and insight, he has chronicled the high-stakes political events and the day-to-day struggles of the farmers and teachers, sharecroppers and dentists who pried their freedom loose from the grip of segregationist whites.
Mr. Branch will present the third annual Anisfield-Wolf Lecture, co-sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and SAGES (Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship), in conjunction with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which are administered by The Cleveland Foundation. The awards recognize works that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. Visit the Anisfield-Wolf website for more information on the awards.
Reservations are Recommended for Mr. Branch's lecture:
On-Line registration
Reservations by phone: 216/368-8961
Visitor Parking:
- Severance Hall--underground lot (entrance on East Boulevard)
- Rainbow Babies Hospital Garage--Entrance on Adelbert
- Veale Center Parking Garage--Entrance on Adelbert
For more information on the lecture, call the Baker-Nord Center at 216/368-8961.
Taylor Branch's website
News Center Article
Plain Dealer 9-2-07 article on Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Robert Bruegmann
Cleveland and Sprawl: A Global Perspective
Thursday, September 27, 2007; 4:30 p.m.
Free Public Lecture
Thwin Center (Ballroom), 11111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Baker-Nord visiting fellow Robert Bruegmann (University of Illinois at Chicago) is an historian of architecture, landscape and the built environment. He is the author of "Sprawl: A Compact History" (2005).
Bruegmann's fields of research and teaching are architectural, urban, landscape, and planning history and historic preservation. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University and the Institute for the Humanities and the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He received his BA from Principia College in 1970 and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 with a dissertation on late 18th and early 19th century European hospitals and other institutions. In 1977 he became assistant professor in the Art History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is currently Professor with appointments in the School of Architecture and the Program in Urban Planning and Policy. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia College of the Arts, MIT and Columbia University. He has also worked for the Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record of the National Park Service.
Robert Bruegmann's website
Thomas J. Sugrue
Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North
Thursday, October 18, 2007; 4:30 p.m.
Free Public Lecture
Wolstein Research Building (Auditorium), 2103 Cornell Road, Cleveland
Visitor parking available in Cornell Road Garage (entrances on Cornell & Mayfield Roads).
Thomas J. Sugrue os a Baker-Nord visiting fellow from the Univerity of Pennsylvania and author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postware Detroit" (1966.)
Thomas J. Sugrue is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, and race relations, Sugrue was educated at Columbia; King's College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992. He is author of "The Origins of the Urban Crisis" (1996), which won the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, the President's Book Awards of the Social Science History Association, among other awards. In 2005, Princeton University Press selected The Origins of the Urban Crisis as one of its 100 most influential books of the past one hundred years and published a new edition of The Origins of the Urban Crisis as a Princeton Classic.
More information on Thomas Sugrue
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Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture:
Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA
Made to Measure
Thursday, November 1, 2007; 6:00 p.m.
Free Public Lecture. No reservations or tickets required.
Thwing Center (Ballroom), 11111 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Visitor parking available in Severance Hall underground lot (entrance on East Boulevard), Rainbow Babies Garage (Adelbert Road), Veale Center Garange (Adelbert Road), and Cornell Road Garage (entrances on Cornell & Mayfield Roads).
Jane Weinzapfel is a founding partner of Leers Weinzapfel Associates of Boston. The firm approaches highly constrained urban and campus sites and technically demanding design problems with a clear set of modernist core principles, a passion for material and detail investigation, and a desire to create meaningful places for human interaction. The result is a refined and tailor-made response to each set of conditions, which conveys both conceptual consistency and specific character, all of which are “Made to Measure.”
  
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