Description
Falmouth Art Center’s Art Talk Series
4 Talks in April & May!
Falmouth Art Center Member price: $8 per talk or all 4 talks for $25
Non-member price: $10 per talk or all 4 talks for $35
Purchase tickets online or by phone at 508-540-3304
Talk #1: What is Digital Art? with Barbara Braman
Thursday, April 11th, 4:00pm in person
at Falmouth Art Center
Digital art has always been revolutionary. The latest wave of technology has opened up a variety of creative possibilities to anyone with a smartphone or a personal computer. We will look at the development of Digital Art and talk about work by a number of digital artists. There will also be a brief demo of a digital art piece.
Speaker Barbara Braman is a digital artist and photographer. She has been working with Digital Art since 2008, using her iPhone and iPad to create paintings with collage elements. She is also a digital photographer. She is a founder of the Digital Art program at the Cape Cod Art Center where she is a Master Artist. Barbara’s work has appeared in a number of national and international exhibitions.
Talk #2: The Work of Art:
The Federal Art Project, 1935 to 1943
with Clare Kobasa and Amy Torbert of the
St. Louis Art Museum
Thursday, April 25 at 4:00pm on Zoom
This talk is in advance of a major exhibition at St. Louis Art Museum of their WPA collection that will open in August 2024. We will view a remarkable group of artworks that reflect the creative efforts of artists working under difficult circumstances. During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal initiated a series of nationwide support programs for the visual arts. The largest and most ambitious program, the Federal Art Project (FAP), put more than 10,000 artists to work. Their artworks, in turn, decorated municipal spaces, circulated through exhibitions, and were allocated to institutions across the country.
The FAP provided expanded opportunities for professional artists, students, and viewers alike. Through its display of work made by African American, Asian American, and female-identifying artists, this exhibition celebrates the fundamental idea of art being made by and for everyone.
Speaker Clare Kobasa is the associate curator of prints, drawings and photographs at St. Louis Art Museum. Ms. Kobasa also manages the museum’s Study Room for Prints, Drawings and Photographs, where students, scholars and members of the public can make appointments for free viewings of more than 16,000 works on paper in the collection.
Ms. Kobasa received a doctorate and a master’s degree in art history from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in art history and history from Swarthmore College.
Speaker Amy Torbert, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of American Art, joined the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2018.
A St. Louis native, Ms. Torbert received a doctorate in art history from the University of Delaware, a master’s degree in the history of art from Williams College and a bachelor’s degree in art history from Hollins University.
Talk #3: The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art
and the Spirit World
Wednesday, May 1 at 2pm on Zoom
“It’s not so long ago that a woman’s expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men without repercussion. The fact that so many radical female artists of their generation—and earlier—also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has been sorely neglected for too long.” – Simon and Shuster
Speaker Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Her new book The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World is published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, by Hachette in Australia and Pegasus Books in the USA; her BBC Radio 3 five-part essay on the subject was broadcast in January 2022. The Mirror and the Palette: Revolution, Rebellion and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits was published in 2021 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Pegasus Books in the USA. Jennifer is the inaugural editor of the National Gallery of Australia’s new publication The Annual and the host of the NGA’s new podcast Artists’s Artists. In July 2023, the exhibition she curated, ‘Thin Skin’ – a survey of contemporary and historical painting – opened at the Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne.
Jennifer has a BA Fine Art (Painting) from the Canberra School of Art, and a MA (Fine Art, Painting) from Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne; her paintings are in various public and private collections in Australia. She travelled to London on a Murdoch Fellowship in 1995 and stayed.
Talk #4: Don’t Look Away:
A Talk by Artist Sharon Kaitz
Thursday, May 23 at 2:00pm
in person at Falmouth Art Center
Sharon Kaitz is a Boston based artist. Her work has been shown internationally in the UK, Japan, Italy, Israel, Germany and Ukraine and nationally in Boston, New York, and Houston. Her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, corporate collections including those of General Cinema, Fidelity, Harcourt and Bank of America, and many private collections.
She designed and executed the set for David Mamet’s play Boston Marriage She has also collaborated with Mr. Mamet on film work, providing art for his movie OLEANNA. The designer Rei Kawakabo commissioned her artwork to stand with her clothing designs in the flagship Tokyo store of Commes des Garcons.
Her exhibitions and designs have been reviewed in ArtNews, Art New England, House and Garden, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, New England Homes, The New York Times, and New American Paintings among other publications.
A Major Thank you to our Sponsor:
Burton & Burton of Sotheby’s International Realty
for making this speaker program possible.