Animals/Arts/Iowa
The Obermann Animal Studies Group is hosting an exciting array of events in the Iowa City/Coralville area during the fall of 2006. We welcome you to join us in exploring the many roles animals play in our lives and our world and in reflecting on the relations between humans and animals.
All events are free and open to the public except where otherwise noted.
Additional programming information will be added to this site as it becomes available for the 2006-07 academic year at the University of Iowa.
Oberman Animal Studies Group
- Jane Desmond, Associate Dean of International Programs and Associate Professor of American Studies, Co-Director
- Teresa Mangum, Associate Professor of English and International Programs, Co-Director
- Kim Marra, Associate Professor of American Studies and Theatre Arts
- Mary Trachsel, Associate Professor and Chair of Rhetoric
- Pamela Trimpe, Administrative Head of the UI Pentacrest Museums and Director of Museum Studies
- Ed Wasserman, Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology
The Animals Among Us:
Two exhibitions from October 14-January 14
As you encounter the winning photo-essays featuring Iowans’ look at The Animals Among Us, join in a state-wide conversation about animals in Iowa. Where do you find animals in the city as well as rural areas around us? How do animals serve the economy? What place do they play in public health concerns? How can we best conserve our state for future generations of all species? How shall we balance the needs of humans and other animals? What roles will animals play in the Iowa of tomorrow? What questions and actions do the words and pictures by Iowa artists suggest to you
Winning entries in two statewide photo-essay competitions that asked Iowans to photograph an animal and reflect on its significance are featured in these two exhibits.
K-12 Exhibit of The Animals Among Us
Iowa Children's Museum, Coral Ridge Mall
October 14, 2006 – March 31, 2007
Opening: Friday, October 13, 2006
Family Free Night Night 5:00-8:00 p.m.
For information on the price admission to the Iowa Children’s Museum, for museum hours, and for additional programming information, please see the Museum website http://www.theicm.org/
Adult Exhibit of The Animals Among Us
Old Capitol Museum, University of Iowa Pentacrest
October 14, 2006 – January 14, 2007
Opening: Sunday, October 15, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
For details, see http://www.uiowa.edu/~oldcap/
Animal Expressions:
International Perspectives
from the Permanent Collection of the UI Museum of Art
Hoover-Paul Gallery, UIMA, October 21-December 31
In collaboration with Kathleen Edwards, Museum Curator
Opening: Friday, October 27, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Gallery Tour led by the Obermann Animal Studies Group
(For reservations call 319-335-3232)
Animal Expressions features over 50 prints, drawings, lithographs, and photographs depicting animals and human-animal relationships by such diverse artists as William Hogarth, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Keisai Masayoshi, anonymous Native Americans, Felix Bracquemond , Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, George Grosz, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Margaret Stratton, and Ellen Lanyon. Themes include Animal Companions, Working Animals, Animals and Human Combat, Animal Aggression, Animals as Spectacle, Taxonomy, and Metaphors and Monsters.
For details see http://www.uiowa.edu/uima/EXHIBITIONS/index.html
Distinguished Guest Lecturer— Robert Rosenblum
“From Stubbs to Delacroix:
Animal Liberation in Romantic Art”
November 30 at 7:30 p.m. Art Building West
Reception following in the Willis Atrium of the UIMA hosted by the Museum of Art
Henry Ittleson, Jr., Professor of Modern European Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Sponsors: The 18th- and 19th-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium, International Programs, The School of Art and Art History, The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.
Animal Cinema
Thursday nights at 7:00 from August 24-December 7, 2006
101 Becker Communication Studies Building
Filmmakers across the world have long labored to interest viewers in animals, to comment upon both animals and human-animal relations, and to find film techniques adequate to show the animals in all their diversity. On Thursday nights in fall 2006, join us for an exciting line-up of international films featuring animals including early shorts, documentaries, animal dramas, horror films, and more.
Special evenings include guest lecturers from the University of Iowa and a unique exhibition of experimental films, Of a Feather, curated by guest filmmaker Cecelia Condit of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Sponsored by
Institute for Cinema & Culture, International Programs, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
Part of the Animals/Arts/Iowa Project of the Obermann Animal Studies Group
Institute for Cinema and Culture: http://intl-programs.uiowa.edu/academic/istcc/
Co-Instructors:
Jane Desmond, International Programs & American Studies, CLAS
Teresa Mangum, English Department & International Programs, CLAS
- Aug 24 Introduction to Animals in Film
- Aug 31 GUEST ~ Kim Marra, UI American Studies & Theatre Arts, CLAS National Velvet (Clarence Brown, USA, 1944, 123 m)
- Sep 7 Animals in Early Cinema: A Selection, 1895-1925
- Sep 14 Dumbo (Disney/Ben Sharpsteen, USA, 1941, 70 m)
- Sep 21 Shining Boy and Little Randy [Hoshi ni natta shonen]
(Shunsaku Kawake, Japan, 2005, 113 m) - Sep 28 Baxter (Jérôme Boivin. France, 1989, 82 m)
- Oct 5 The Bear [L’Ours] (Jean-Jacques Annaud, France, 1988, 94 m)
- Oct 12 Animals in Experimental Cinema: A Selection
- Oct 19 GUEST~ FILMMAKER AND CURATOR
Cecilia Condit
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
OF A FEATHER 1968-2005 - Oct 26 Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, USA, 1933, 71 m)
- Nov 2 Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, USA, 1980, 85 m)
Sirius Remembered (Stan Brakhage, USA, 1955, 12 m) - Nov 9 Animals, Friend or Food (Jason Young, Canada, 2003, 74 m)
Adonis XIV (Bako Sadykov, 1977/1988, Russia, 10 m)
Meet Your Meat (PETA, USA, 2005, 16 m) - Nov 16 Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, France, 1966, 95 m)
- Nov 30 GUEST ~ HISTORY OF ANIMALS IN VISUAL CULTURE
Robert Rosenblum, New York University/Guggenheim Museum
“From Stubbs to Delacroix: Animal Liberation in Romantic Art”
7:30 p.m., Auditorium, Art Building West/Reception in UI Art Museum - Dec 7 GUEST ~ Mary Trachsel, UI Rhetoric Department, CLAS
A Conversation with Koko (PBS/Nature, USA, 2001, 90 m)
All films are free and open to the public. Screenings are Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in 101 Becker Communication Studies Building, at the corner of Washington and Madison. Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you require accommodations to attend, information, or a detailed schedule see http://intl-programs.uiowa.edu/academic/istcc/#proseminar or call the Institute for Cinema and Culture at 319-335-1348.
Sponsors for these events include The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Institute for Cinema and Culture, 18th-19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium, International Programs, The College of Arts and Sciences, UI Museum of Art, The School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa Office of the President’s Year of Public Engagement Award, The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research, Presentations, Old Capitol Museum, Iowa Children’s Museum.