RAYMOND HOOD AND THE AMERICAN SKYSCRAPER
Katherine Solomonson, Professor University of Minnesota
Who was the winner? Hood, Howells and the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition
Isabelle Gournay, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
An American in Paris: Raymond Hood and the Ecole des Beaux Arts
Wendy Edwards in Conversation with Ruth Fine
Reception to follow
CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTISTS
moderated by guest curator Heather Bhandari
Reception to follow
A lecture by Chris Elphick
Principal Investigator, SHARP (Saltmarsh Habitation and Avian and Research Program)
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
With rising sea levels, tidal marshes and species such as the saltmarsh sparrow that depend on them, face many threats. This talk will describe the status of tidal marsh birds in the northeast, the ways that marshes are changing, and the role that humans play in protecting coastal ecosystems.
Photographer and Brown alum Bill Jacobson is best recognized for his ghostly, out of focus images of people. Begun during the height of the AIDS epidemic, the images evoke both loss and the futility of capturing true human likenesses in portraiture and memory. In recent years, Jacobson has investigated geometry and space —particularly rectangles, which he notes do not exist in nature—in natural and man-made settings.
Jennifer Betts, University Archivist and Assistant Director for the John Hay Library
Jennie Goldstein, Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Rujeko Hockley, Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Ian Alden Russell, Curator, David Winton Bell Gallery
Reception to follow
Becker and Seaman will discuss their experiences photographing in Greenland and Antarctica.