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Fresh
Perspectives in the Arts From Home
a 4 Part
Series with Professor Annie Storr
Wednesdays,
January 6 & 27; February 10 & 24, 7pm-8.45pm
Space is
Limited for this 4 Part Series
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Cardinal
by Jamie Downs
Join this wonderful opportunity on Wednesdays, January 6 & 27; February 10 & 24 7pm-9pm for a special arts workshop Fresh Perspectives in the Arts From Home, a 4 Part Series with Professor Annie Storr. Space for this event is limited. Participation in all four sessions is highly encouraged, though not required. FREE & Everyone Welcome.
With different ideas about what art is or should be as a starting point, we will look closely at a diverse sampler from across history. What we think about actually changes what we see, and that is a matter of choice. Whether you want to explore new sorts of art or refresh your point of view on familiar ones, this mini-course is about expanding your perspective even while staying close to home.. This is not exactly art history or art appreciation—but should expand your sense of both. We will emphasize the visual arts but also bring in examples from kinetic and performing arts.
Note: This series is bi-weekly, with one “wrinkle in time” to skip Inauguration Day.
Optional supplement & advance preparation: Anne Sheppard’s “Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art.” (Note, used options available on Amazon); Choose four personal “focus works of art” in advance.
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About Our
Presenter: Annie Storr is Resident Scholar at Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. She was Founding Chair of Education Studies at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, D.C. and Head of Education at the American Alliance of Museums, among other positions. Annie has been a museum educator for over 30 years starting at Canada’s Winnipeg Art Gallery. She created the guided-looking method, “Exercises for the Quiet Eye.” Ragdale Art Colony has awarded her a 2021 Frances Shaw Fellow to complete her book on the method.
She was the first Educator to become a National Museum of American Art Post-doctoral Research Fellow. Her dissertation on intellectual history of docentry and gallery tours, tracing sources back to the 18th Century, led to a US Department of Education National Graduate Fellowship. Later, she represented the Museum Field in the first Federal policy paper on Lifelong Learning, “Building a Nation of Learners.”
At Brandeis, her main project in a cross-disciplinary study Hull-House Co-Founder, Ellen Gates Starr. Annie has devoted her career to exploring the intersection of art history, pedagogy and social engagement—which led her to Starr.
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