CFAMilies
November 5, 2011
Saturday, 2:00-3:30
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
In conjunction with Rollins' Family Weekend

CFAMililes
October 29, 2011
Saturday, 2:00-5:00
Mills Lawn
In conjuction with Rollins' Halloween Howl

Art Appraisal Day
Saturday, October 29, 2011
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Cornell Fine Arts Museum





Cultural Property Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
6:00 p.m.
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Contested Object will be the focus of a panel discussion concerning cultural property issues.

Kim Russo Lecture
Saturday, October 22, 2011
12:00 p.m.
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
The artist will speak about her show and her process in its achievement.

Douglas Witmer Lecture
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:00 p.m.
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Lecture open to the public, surveying the artist's career to date, including his commissions for religious spaces.

Last Harvest Forum
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Cradle Will Rock Film Showing
Monday, September 12, 2011
6:30 p.m.
Cornell Fine Arts Museum




CFAMilies
The Art of the Guitar
Sunday, September 4, 2011

CFAMilies
Sculpting with Found Objects
Sunday, August 7, 2011

CFAMilies
Rock n' Roll Painting
Sunday, July 3, 2011

CFAMilies
Japanese Hand Fans:  Symbols of Life, Good Fortune and Happiness
Sunday, June 5, 2011 

Photography Lecture
The Snapshot Aesthetic, Mobile Image Capture and the Urban Drift
Thursday, May 5, 2011
American photographer E. Brady Robinson uses the camera to examine her environment. She will lecture on her new photographic installation Transfer showing July 2^nd through October 9^th at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College.  Transfer combines mobile image capture with the psychogeographic concept of the drift. The snapshot is utilized as a means to quickly record, document and observe. The installation is a mapping of geography encountered at home and abroad. Robinson will lecture on her new work, the   exploration of the formal qualities of the snapshot, mobile image capture and the writing of French theorist Guy Debord.

CFAMilies
Ikebana:  The Japanese Art of Beautifully Arranging Cut Flowers, Leaves, and Stems
Sunday, May 1, 2011 

How to look at Renaissance Art workshop
Monday, March 28, 2011
Arthur Blumenthal, Ph.D., will present a fully participatory course utilizing works of art in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s galleries. Dr. Blumenthal, director emeritus of the Cornell Museum, teaches students a method of how to approach an individual work of art using their own visual powers and experience.  

Conservation Art Lecture 
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
6:00 p.m.
Alexandra VonHawk, of VonHawk Restoration Laboratories, Inc., has more than 30 years experience in art conservation and an international client llist that includes private art collectors, insurance companies, and many museums.  Ms. Von Hawk will share fascinating stories of the mysteries and challenges in her work as conservator with specific reference to her conservation work for Magnificence & Piety: Themes in Italian Art, 1350-1700, currently on display at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. 

Photography Lecture
Friday, March 18, 2011
Photographer Bill Armstrong will present a lecture and slide show about his Infinity series, an extensive body of work that he has been photographing since 1997.  
 

After the Battle of Lepanto:  Venetian Political Imagery in the Sixteenth Century
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Debra Pincus is an independent Scholar and Research Associate in the Department of Sculputre and Decorative Arts at the national Gallery of Art in Washinton, D.C.  Cambridge University Press published her book, Tombs of the Doges of Venice, in 2000.  

Business of Art
Monday, February 7, 2011
Bruce Silverstein, founder and director of the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York's Chesea art district, will speak on the development of his commercial art venture.  With an international roster of contemporary artists as well as established artists of great influence, the gallery provides a venue for dialogue across all art forms and maintains an in-depth inventory of masterworks spanning the history of the photographic medium. 

The Edge of Vision - or the End of Vision?  Photography After Abstraction
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Lyle Rexer, is an independent scholar and curator.  He has authored numerous books and catalogues and his essays have appeared in such periodicals as Art in America and The New York Times.  He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.