Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Annual Lecture Series

May 9, 2007
Conference series by François-Marc Gagnon at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in 2007. At the Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium, Michal and Renata Hornstein pavilion, 1379 Sherbrooke Street West, on Wednesday at 3:30PM.

The Beautiful, the Sublime and the Strange in Canadian Art
This year's lecture series on Canadian Art coincides with the Emily Carr retrospective exhibition organized jointly by the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery. The series will benefit from the exhibition in that nearly all the lectures will discuss the themes of the beautiful, the sublime and the strange in Canadian art in relation to Emily Carr. The French series begins Wednesday March 28 and the English series begins on Wednesday May 9.

Dr. Gagnon’s annual lecture series at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has been captivating a broad public audience since 2001. The series consists of 6 weekly lectures offered in both French and English, with attendance at each lecture ranging from 200 to 300 people. Each year the thematic focus has highlighted a different aspect of Canadian art, such as abstract art, landscape painting, the human figure and realism in art, and art and spirituality. The lectures have been filmed and are available for viewing in the Institute’s Documentation Centre.

Annual Public Conferences on Recent Research on Canadian Art

Sandra Paikowsky, the Institute’s First Distinguished Fellow, is organizing a series of talks on recent research in Canadian art history to take place on a yearly basis at various centres across Canada. In order to attract the widest possible audience, the conferences will be held in local museums and/or planned to correspond with major arts events. Speakers will be invited by the Institute and the presentations will be recorded and archived. The presenters will be invited to write articles based on their papers and these will be published by the Institute in either paper form and/or as part of the Institute’s on-line research projects.

The Institute’s inaugural public conference, Untold Histories, took place at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax on October 16, 2004. In addition to Sandra Paikowsky and Institute Chair, François- Marc Gagnon, invited speakers included Gemey Kelly (Director, Owen’s Art Gallery, Mount Allison University), Sandra Alfoldy (Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, John Leroux (Architect, Fredericton) and Jeffrey Spalding (Director, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia). Their papers addressed new ways of looking at Canadian art and its history.

UNTOLD HISTORIES Saturday, October 16, 2004
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Schedule of Presenters
10:00 François- Marc Gagnon (Director, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art): "Samuel de Champlain and First Nations Iconography. The Maritime Paradigm"
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10:45 Gemey Kelly (Director, Owen’s Art Gallery, Mount Allison University): "Regionalist or Modernist?: Jack Humphrey's Claim to Fame"
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11:30 Sandra Alfoldy (Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design): “Moncrief Williamson and the Expo ’67 Canadian Fine Craft Exhibition.”
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14:00 Sandra Paikowsky (Professor and Distinguished Fellow, Jarislowsky Institute): " 'From Away'. The Carnegie Corporation and Art in the Maritime Provinces from the 1920s to the 1940s"
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14:45 John Leroux (Architect, Fredericton): "Architecture of the Spirit - Modernism in 1950s and 60s Fredericton"
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15:30 Jeffrey Spalding (Director, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia): “ Joan of Art - Rockwell Kent and the Group of Seven”