Saturday, April 20, 2013
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Denison Museum (Burke Hall), Directions

Please join us this spring for a fun-filled afternoon of family friendly events and Book Making Workshop. Refreshments will be served. All ages welcome. This event is free and open to the public.

Book Making Workshop

In association with the exhibition Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker, the students of Denison University’s Artists Books class will conduct a one-day workshop for ages 6-18. This free class will teach some amazing and simple book binding processes that have been used by artists of all discipline to work with the book as a form of art. All materials will be provided.

Johanna Drucker

A Gallery Talk with Visiting Artist Johanna Drucker. Johanna Drucker is a distinguished writer, typographic poet, and scholar-critic. The DRUCKWORKS retrospective allows audiences to experience the course of her artistic development while offering key insights into the evolution of the field of artists’ books as an interdisciplinary, and often collaborative, artistic and literary activity.

Co-sponsored by Denison Museum and Creativity & Courage: Denison’s 2012-13 Spectrum Series

DRUCKWORKS: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker is organized by the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago.

Johanna Drucker

Lecture by Johanna Drucker with Reception Following

While providing an overview of digital humanities projects at UCLA, this talk will focus on pedagogy and scholarship at the intersection of libraries and digital collections. This library talk is part of the Franklin Lecture Series, funded by the Carolyn Craig and Dr. Carl M. Franklin Fund.

Co-sponsored by Denison Museum and Denison Libraries

Johanna Drucker. “History of the/my Wor(l)d”, 1990. Granary Books. Edition 1, Object 1. Page 40-41. http://www.artistsbooksonline.org

Friday, February 8, 2013
4:30 to 7:00 PM
Denison Museum (Burke Hall), Directions

DRUCKWORKS: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker

Johanna Drucker is a distinguished writer, typographic poet, and scholar-critic. The DRUCKWORKS retrospective allows audiences to experience the course of her artistic development while offering key insights into the evolution of the field of artists’ books as an interdisciplinary, and often collaborative, artistic and literary activity.

Organized by the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago.

Book + Art: The Reading Room

Book + Art: The Reading Room features books by Ohio artists and is the result of sabbatical research conducted by Denison’s own University Archivist Heather Lyle.

Artist Books Print Project

The works in this exhibition were created in Denison University’s Introduction to Print course and addressed an exploration of memory including place and time a reflection on our private and shared environment. Introduction to Print was taught by Visiting Professor Melissa Vogley-Woods in Fall 2012.

Queer Graphix Zines

Zines about GLBTQ artists and art movements created by students in Associate Professor Ron Abram’s Queer Graphix course, a Denison University Studio Art/Queer Studies course dealing with alternative queer art-making practices and aesthetics with a focus on issues of identity, gender, orientation and sexuality.

Exhibitions on view February 8, 2013 – May 11, 2013
Free and open to the public.

Panel discussion featuring artist-photographer Dr. Andrea Baldeck, Dr. Tracee Laing, founding director of Granville’s own Healing Art Missions, Keith W. Hare, HAM’s technical consultant for technology, alternative energy, and infrastructure, and Dr. Joe Reczek, Assistant Professor in Denison’s Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. Sharing a commitment to advancing community health knowledge and social justice in under-developed communities, the guest speakers will rely on personal experience to document NGO volunteerism in one of the world’s poorest nations.

Thursday, November 8, 2012
7:00 PM
Burke Hall, Directions

Free and open to the public

A gallery talk by fine-art photographer Andrea Baldeck on her exhibition “Heart of Haiti.”
Reservations required through Cookie Sunkle at Gilpatrick Center (sunkle@denison.edu or 740-587-6573).
Limited to 20 people.

Thursday, November 8, 2012
11:30 AM – 12:40 PM
Burke Hall, Directions

The week of October 22nd, the Granville location of Whit’s Frozen Custard will offer a special flavor called “Heavenly Haiti”. It is a Banana Custard with Coconut and Dark Chocolate flakes. All proceeds of “Heavenly Haiti” will benefit Healing Art Missions.

October 22, 2012
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Higley Hall Auditorium

Market Imaginary (2012), written, directed and produced by Joanna Grabski (Art History) in collaboration with Christian Faur (Mulberry Mix Lab), Fanta Diamanka (Women’s Studies), and Aissata Barry (DU Class of 2015)

Dialogue in Wolof, French, and English. Subtitles in English.

Running Time 54 minutes

According to a popular saying in Dakar, Senegal, “You can find anything in the world at Colobane Market.” The objects in market stalls – colorful new and used clothing, shoes, journals, watches, radios and cell phones—force the eye and imagination to travel to all corners of the globe. Market Imaginary deals with the imagination around Dakar’s Colobane Market and its surrounding neighborhood. The film considers the many ways the market is embedded in its neighborhood and the broader imagination of Dakar’s residents. This documentary film is composed of an introduction and three chapters: The first chapter considers the speculations involved in market business for both buyers and sellers. The second chapter focuses on the history and growth of the neighborhood following the displacement of populations during the French colonial era. The third chapter explores the processes of creativity and reinvention by examining how artists use the material resources and visual possibilities offered by the market and city more broadly.

The documentary is based on long-term research about Colobane Market, the surrounding neighborhood, and the city of Dakar. It features interviews with Cheikh Ndiaye, Viyé Diba, Ndary Lo, Abdoulaye Ndoye, Fally Sene Sow, 2Pac Colobane, Docta, Vieux Cissé, Aminata Diop, El Hadji Ousmane Mbenga, Ndeye Fatou Gueye, and Ousmane Sene.

Please see the link to the film’s trailer: http://vimeo.com/40033895

Book Club

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

Saturday, October 20, 2012
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Denison Museum, Directions
Free and open to the public.

A discussion of an historical fiction about Haitian laborers in 1937 Dominican Republican.

Spectrum Series 2012-13: Creativity & Courage and Beck Lecture Series Event

Visiting Author: Edwidge Danticat
Thursday, October 25, 2012
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Slayter Hall Auditorium

The book club precedes the visit of Haitian-American writer, Edwidge Danticat, on Thursday, October 25th. Danticat will read from her latest book “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work.”

The event is co-sponsored by the Spectrum Series 2012-13: Creativity & Courage and the Beck Lecture Series.
Free and open to the public.

Andrea Baldeck. BON PA GASPIYÉ (A good thing is not wasted.), circa mid-1990s. Black and white photograph. Courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Heart of Haiti
Denison Museum is pleased to present fifty unforgettable photographs by Andrea Baldeck— physician turned fine arts photographer. This exhibition was organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Resistance and Resiliency in Haitian Art: Selections from the Figge Art Museum

Ten exemplary works on loan from one of the world’s oldest collections of Haitian art pay homage to the courage and creativity of the island’s complex Caribbean culture.

Exhibitions on view September 14, 2012 – December 08, 2012
Free and open to the public.

Dumay an Santé (A healthy Dumay)

Friday, September 14, 2012
7:00 PM
Burke Hall Auditorium, Directions

Premiere of a 15 minute film shot in April 2012 by Jeff Hammond and Doriana Westerman of Global Eyes Media documenting the close relationship between the community of Dumay, Haiti and Healing Art Missions. Healing Art Missions supports primary health care for the Dumay population of 20,000.

For more information on Healing Art Missions: http://healingartmissions.org/index.php

Friday, May 11, 2012
3 to 5:30 PM
Denison Museum (Burke Hall), Directions

The intern variety show is hosted by the Senior Denison Museum Interns and displays meaningful objects from their time working at the museum.

Free and open to the public.

Senior Interns

Katie Browne
Akeem Costa
Clara Fecht
Melissa Grannetino
Chelsea McGill
Hannah Miller
Nozomi Onishi
Victoria Stearns
Kate Westenberger

Directed by Ai Weiwei, 2011, distributed by D.A.P., 152 mins

Politics and Culture in Post-‘89 China
East Asian Film and Lecture Series

Sunday, March 4, 2:30 PM
Cinema House (201 N. Mulberry, access from College Street, Maps & Directions)

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei made headlines worldwide after being jailed by the Chinese government for 81 days in 2011 for tax evasion. Many believe it was Ai’s art and ideas that led to the imprisonment. Fairytale takes us inside one of his most ambitious works.

Conceived in 2007 for the renowned contemporary art event Documenta in Kassel, Germany, Ai invited 1001 Chinese citizens to Germany to experience their own fairytale for 28 days. This film documents the complex process and ideas behind the work.

Introduced by Erin Kilkenny ’12. Followed by talk and Q&A with independent curator, Stephanie H. Tung.

Directed by Jia Zhangke, 2010

Politics and Culture in Post-‘89 China
East Asian Film and Lecture Series

Sunday, March 4, 7:00 PM
Cinema House (201 N. Mulberry, access from College Street, Maps & Directions)

24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned aeronautics factory in Chengdu, a city in Sichuan province in southwest China, and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Bursting with poetry, pop songs and striking visual detail, the film weaves together unforgettable stories from three generations of workers — some real, some played by actors (including Joan Chen) — into a vivid portrait of the human struggle behind China’s economic miracle.

This film and lecture series is presented thanks to: The Denison Museum, East Asian Studies Program, Department of Modern Languages, Department of Art History, and Department of Cinema. Made possible by a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation, and additional funding from the Foresman Fund.

Politics and Culture in Post-‘89 China
East Asian Film and Lecture Series

Saturday, March 3, 2:30–3:30 PM
Higley Auditorium (Located in Academic Quadrangle, Maps & Directions)

Filmmaker Carma Hinton discusses the fascinating and frustrating challenges of making The Gate of Heavenly Peace. She will present brief excerpts of the film as well as footage that did not make it into the final cut. She will also address the legacy of Tiananmen today.

About the speaker: Dr. Hinton was born in Beijing in 1949 and lived there until she was twenty-one; Chinese is her first language and culture. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University and is currently the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University.

Family Day Events

Saturday, March 3, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Denison Museum, Burke Hall

With the success of our past Family Day events, the Denison Museum is planning another family friendly event for central Ohio residents to participate in! Please join us this spring for a fun-filled day of exhibition tours, scavenger hunt, and hands-on activities.

Refreshments will be served. All ages welcome. This event is free and open to the public.

RSVPs appreciated: (740) 587-6255

Directed by Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, 1995, 189 mins

Politics and Culture in Post-‘89 China
East Asian Film and Lecture Series

Friday, March 2 – 7:00 PM
Cinema House (201 N. Mulberry, access from College Street, Maps & Directions)

The literal translation of “Tiananmen,” The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a feature-length documentary about the 1989 protest movement in China. The film reflects on the drama, tension, humor, absurdity, heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to June in 1989.

It is an insightful and sobering tale that gives ignored voices their proper place in history and reveals an ongoing debate in China concerning the importance of personal responsibility and moral integrity, the need, as Vaclav Havel has put it, to “live in the truth.”

Life and Death in Shanghai (1986) by Nien Cheng
ISBN-10: 014010870X
ISBN-13: 978-0140108705

Saturday, February 18. 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Denison Museum, Burke Hall

For more information about the book club or for more information regarding the books, please call the museum office at: (740) 587-6255.

Free and open to the public. New members welcome at any time.

Modernity and Mobility: Chinese Women in Popular Culture since 1910s

Thursday, February 16, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Black Box Theatre, Burke Hall

Dr. Ping Yang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication. She is also serving on Women’s Studies, International Studies, and East Asian Studies program committees. Her research focuses on cultural representation, identity development, and intercultural adaptation. She joined Denison in Fall 2009.

Judy Andrews, a professor at Ohio State University, is a specialist in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art.

Thursday, February 9, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Denison Museum, Burke Hall

Registration is required. Limit of 20.

Please contact Cookie Sunkle, sunkle@denison.edu.

China Modern: Designing Popular Culture 1910-1970

Beijing’s East Village: Photographs by Rong Rong, 1993–1997

The Denison Museum will be opening this Spring with two exhibitions.

Friday, January 27, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Denison Museum, Burke Hall