Category: Exhibit
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NIIPA Alumni Reunion
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Tim Whiten in conversation with Erika DeFreitas
Celebrating the BFA graduating class of 2022
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In Conversation: nichola feldman-kiss with Pamela Edmonds and Mona Filip
McMaster Museum of Art presents Elemental: Ethereal, a new solo exhibition by Canadian image maker Tim Whiten
McMaster Museum of Art presents nichola feldman-kiss \ Scapegoat
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McMaster Museum of Art Sponsors New Public Art Installation for Supercrawl 2021
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Two New Art Installations on View at McQuesten Urban Farm
Exhibition highlighting the complexities of vaccination opens at the McMaster Museum of Art
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Immune Nations Virtual Exhibition Tour
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Spotlight: William Kingfisher
ANNOUNCING QUIXOTIC: SUMMA 2021 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
George Wallace exhibition mounted at National Gallery of Ireland
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Virtual Exhibition: McMaster’s 2020 SUMMA Show
Step into our Artist Garden
Deanna Bowen receives a $25K Governor General’s art award
Deanna Bowen: A Harlem Nocturne
The McMaster Museum of Art proudly presents
Deanna Bowen: A Harlem Nocturne
Curated by Kimberly Phillips
Organized and circulated by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
On view at the McMaster Museum of Art from January 16 to May 9, 2020
Deanna Bowen’s artistic practice concerns itself with histories of Black experience in Canada and the US. Her focus is the “dark matter” in our midst: figures and events that have remained below the threshold of visibility not because they are impossible to find but because their existence reveals a systematized racism difficult for the majority culture to acknowledge. Bowen reactivates historic material sourced from overlooked archives through a process of extraction, translation and enlargement, and then reinserts this material into public consciousness in a new form.
A Harlem Nocturne presents a terrain of research that Bowen undertook in Toronto and Vancouver over the past three years, recovered from civic documents, newspaper clippings and numerous personal and organizational archives. These materials trace a series of interconnected figures—many of them part of Bowen’s own family—who formed an integral part of the Canadian entertainment community from the 1940s through the 1970s. As Black bodies living and working in a settler colony underpinned by institutionalized racism, they were at once invisible and hyper-visible, simultaneously admired, exoticized and surveilled. They enjoyed certain celebrity in their local milieu but also endured differing degrees of bigotry, segregation and racial violence.
Bowen’s aim is to posit a powerful counterpoint to common narratives that oversimplify historical narratives of Canada’s complex and vibrant Black presence. She reminds us that even seemingly insignificant documents can be rich repositories for unintended readings, and for questioning who has been charged with writing our histories and why.
EVENTS
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 16, 2020, 6 – 8 p.m.
CURATOR’S TALK | Kimberly Phillips: Friday, January 17, 12:30 – 1:20 p.m.
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY COLINA PHILLIPS: February 6, 7 – 9 p.m.
ARTIST TALK / IN CONVERSATION: Thursday, February 27, 7 – 9 p.m.
Deanna Bowen
Pamela Edmonds (Senior Curator at McMaster Museum of Art)
Selina Mudavanhu (Assistant Professor, Communications Studies and Multimedia)
READ TRANSCRIPT of the conversation
FILM SCREENING / DISCUSSION: Friday, April 3, 7 – 9 p.m.
Location: Black Box Theatre, L.R. Wilson Hall, McMaster University
Special off-site screening and discussion of Bowen’s edited cut of On Trial The Long Doorway
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Deanna Bowen is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice examines race, migration, historical writing and authorship. Bowen makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures in order to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement in place and time. In recent years, Bowen’s work has involved rigorous examination of her family lineage and their connections to the Black Prairie pioneers of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the Creek Negroes and All-Black towns of Oklahoma, the extended Kentucky/Kansas Exoduster migrations and the Ku Klux Klan. She has received several awards in support of her artistic practice including the 2020 Governor General’s Award for Visual Art, 2017 Canada Council New Chapter and Ontario Arts Council Media Arts production grants, a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 William H. Johnson Prize. She has exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2017); the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2016); the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2015); McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton (2014 – 15) and the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2013).
INTERVIEW: Listen now to an Interview with Deanna Bowen on CFMU Radio Podcast
INTERVIEW: with Kimberly Phillips in the Silhouette
Deanna Bowen: A Harlem Nocturne is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
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Public Lecture: Napoleon’s Maps and the Conduct of War
McMaster University Library presents:
PUBLIC LECTURE
L.R. Wilson Hall (Concert Hall), McMaster University
June 13, 2018 at 6:00 PM
Open to the public, RSVP to reserve a seat.
Napoleon’s Maps and the Conduct of War
Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University
One of Napoleon’s first appointments was as an officer in the Bureau Topographique, responsible for war planning and mapping theaters of war. The development of strategy necessitated proper intelligence gathering, and mapping was perhaps one of its most import tasks. Indeed, Napoleon later demanded up to date maps to determine the deployment and operations of his armies after he became ruler of France. The lecture will explore the relationship between Napoleon, maps and military campaigning in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Included will be a discussion of maps held in the Clifford Map Collection, one of which was presented to Napoleon in recognition of his victory in Italy in 1800.
Frederick C. Schneid is Herman and Louise Smith Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at High Point University in North Carolina. He received his PhD from Purdue University, where he studied under eminent military historian Gunther E. Rothenberg. Professor Schneid’s research specialty is French and Italian military history from the French Revolution to the Wars of Italian Unification. He is the author and editor of sixteen books, and numerous book chapters and articles. Among his publications are European Armies of the French Revolution, The French-Piedmontese Campaign of 1859, The Second War of Italian Unification, Napoleon’s Conquest of Europe: The War of the Third Coalition and Napoleon’s Italian Campaigns, 1805-1815. He is currently working on a manuscript on Napoleon’s first Italian campaign and writing two chapters for the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.
Followed by:
Gentleman, Soldier, Scholar and Spy: The Napoleonic Era Maps of
the Honourable Robert Clifford (1767-1817)
Gord Beck, McMaster University
Robert Clifford was the third son of the 4th Lord Clifford of Chudleigh. While serving as an officer in Dillon’s Regiment under Louis XVI of France, he was trained in the most advanced methods of military science and cartography of the age. His knowledge of the inner workings of the French military, coupled with the maps of fortifications he smuggled out of France while narrowly avoiding the guillotine, proved to be of immeasurable value to his English countrymen. His advice was sought by General John Graves Simcoe for the defense of England against a French invasion, and on the formation of a new military college at Sandhurst. Learn the story behind the man, his maps, and how they came to McMaster.
Gord Beck is McMaster University Library’s Map Specialist, and the curator of the Robert Clifford Map Exhibit on view at the McMaster Museum of Art from May 26 through September 1, 2018. He developed his expertise in military cartography over his 20-year period working in the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection, receiving the President’s Award for Outstanding Service in 2014. Gord is a recognized expert in the field of WWI trench maps and aerial photos, and has appeared frequently in the media and as a guest speaker on that topic. He has recently completed two projects with Canadian Geographic involving the creation of a ‘Giant Floor Map of Vimy Ridge,’ and a documentary about mapping and aerial photography in WWI narrated by Dan Aykroyd and entitled, ‘Drawn to Victory.’
