Dr. William Keyse Rudolph is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chief Curator and the Marie and Hugh Halff Curator of American Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art.  Exhibitions he has organized include “Thomas Sully: Painted Performance” (2013–2014), “In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans,” (2011–2012), “Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist” (2008–2009), and "Charles Sheeler’s Power Series" (2006).

Long-time and much loved professor Thomas E. Polk II (retired 2006) died in 2014. Using funds donated to the School in his memory, the art history area is organizing a one-day conference on medieval architecture. By honoring Professor Polk’s memory in this way we also hope to highlight the academic and intellectual importance of the study of the medieval world and its architecture. By venturing “outside the lines” we are presenting evidence for the wide intellectual, geographical, and chronological span of medievalism.

8:00 AM coffee

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Introductions

George Scheer is the co-founder and Director of Elsewhere, a living museum and artist residency set in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. George is a writer, scholar, and artist who fosters creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. Other projects include Kulturpark, a public investigation of an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin, and South Elm Projects, a curated series of place-based public art commissions for downtown Greensboro.

Join us in celebrating three new exhibitions at the Dodd!

Director of the Dodd Galleries, Katie Geha, will give a tour of the exhibition "The Figure 8" at 6:30 p.m. The show explores the relationship between the figurative and the abstract in work by three artists: New York based artist Elizabeth Jaeger, Brimingham, AL based artist Amy Pleasant, and LA based artist, J. Parker Valentine. 

MFA candidate in printmaking and book arts, Ry McCullough will discuss his curated exhibition Slagfields​, a two person exhibition that features word by McCullough and Findlay, Ohio-bases artist Ian Breidenbach. 

MFA candidate in photography, Miranda Maynard, will discuss the thinking behind her curated exhibition "Role Models", a two-person show that features work by Maynard and Chicago-based artist Phaedra Call. 

Join us for a preview of the exhibition The Figure 8. Artists featured in the exhibition, Elizabeth Jaeger, Amy Pleasant, and J. Parker Valentine will be on hand to discuss their work and to answer questions. 

Archive Fever is a new program at the Dodd Galleries that explores research and visual culture. Part Pechu-Kucha, part image round-robin, 5 students, faculty, and visiting artists will be asked to present 10-15 slides that inform their perceptual, emotional, and intellectual archive.

Farrah Karapetian is a Los Angeles based artist who works in sculpture, installation and photography. Much of her work is photo based which she achieves without the use of the camera in a process known as photograms. Karapetian explores reality and representation through the constructed image and the use of different mediums. She believes in transparency of process, and in the capacity of photography to communicate the marks of its making.

Born in Copenhagen, Henrik Drescher and his family immigrated to the United States in 1967. After only a semester, he broke from his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to begin a career in illustration. He also traveled throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, keeping journals of notes and drawings that he later used as portfolios.