SPEAKERS ON THE ARTS
VMFA Speakers on the Arts lectures are an excellent way to complement programming at partner sites. They can also introduce new areas of art to partner audiences and enhance community events and celebrations. A wide selection of topics and speakers is available for VMFA Statewide Partners.
See Booking Speakers on the Arts Lectures for information about requesting a lecture or fill out the online Program Request Form.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are available July 2009-June 2011 and require PC computer with PowerPoint and projection system, which may be provided by the speaker if needed.
VMFA Statewide Faculty
Speakers on the Arts by Curriculum
African Art
Beauty & Sophistication: African and African-American
Art
African-American Art
The African American Image in Advertising
Freedom in Pigment: Henry O. Tanner's Life and Work
American Art through 1950
Women in and out of the Kitchen
Reel American Artfulness
From Henri to Hopper: American Realist Painters
Travels of a VMFA Portrait
Quilts: Piecing America
The Great Road: Decorative Arts from Southwest Virginia
My VMFA: American Art
Ancient Art (Greek, Roman, Egyptian)
Out of Africa: Connections between Black Africa and Mediterranean
Cultures
Roman Portraiture: Power, Politics and Propaganda
My VMFA: The Classical World
Decorative Arts & Design: Fabergé,
Art Nouveau, Art Deco
Architect As Designer: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Buckle Up: Archibald Knox & Celtic Revival
Let in the Light: Stained Glass and Architecture
My VMFA: Jewelry at VMFA
Wit and Elegance: Fabergé and Schlumberger
East Asian
My VMFA: East Asian Art
Japanese Culture During the Edo Period
The Sacred Architecture of Japan
European Art: Byzantine through 1950
Artemisia Gentileschi
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo: Is Man the Measure of All
Things?
European Colonialism Caught by the Lens
Heavenly Women: A Mysterious Masterpiece at VMFA
Icons: Windows into the Divine
Late 20th and 21st Century Art
Mystical Matisse
Market vs. Museum: Contemporary Craft
Delving into Design
Ransom of Russian Art: Notes from the Underground
Surrealism in Film
My VMFA: Late 20th and Early 21st Century Art
Why is that Art?
The Greening of Art: How Art Can Change the World and Other Untold
Installation Art: What is it?
South Asian
Tomb, Palace, and Pavilion: Mughal Gardens and Garden Architecture
Lessons of the Indian Epic Poem, the Ramayana
Mellon Collection - American
Travels with George Catlin
Winslow Homer and Eastman Johnson: The Civil War in Virginia
Mellon Collection - French
Mother, Model, Mistress, Master: Suzanne Valadon
Mystery of The Night Café: Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent van Gogh
Renoir's Ladies
Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris
The Wine of Genius: Maurice Utrillo and His Portrait of Montmartre
A Trip to the Tropics: Armchair Adventures with Henri Rousseau
At Home with Vuillard
Cinema Culture of Impressionists
How the Impressionists Painted
Mellon Collection - British Sporting Art
A Brilliant Disorder: The Works of William Blake
The Hierarchy of the Hunt: 18th Century British Sporting Art
Rustic England: Country Life According to George Morland
Pre-Columbian & American Indian Art
Changing Perspectives: American Indian Art
Moche Ceramics: Portraits of the Natural World
General
Reclaimed: Nazi Looted Art
Backyard Beautiful: Art in the Neighborhood
Stranger than Fiction: Great Art Heists in History
Poetic Visions: What Poets See When They Look at Art
A Collectors Guide to Prints
Affairs of the Heart: Love and Romance in Masterpieces of Art
Artistic Endeavors: Scandals, Schemes, and Scalawags in the World
of Art
African Art
Beauty & Sophistication: African and African-American
Art
Karen Getty, Coordinator of Tour Services, VMFA
Join Karen Getty, Docent Program Coordinator, as she introduces
basic concepts of African Art and explores American connections
and carryovers. Learn about objects in the VMFA African Collection,
how they were used, who would have made and used them, and the
traditions that surround them. Find out how these types of objects
are still used today. Discover the relationships that exist between
Africa and America through culture, music, religion, and visual
representation. Old myths and stereotypes are dispelled to reveal
the beauty and sophistication that lie at the heart of African
and African-American art.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
African-American Art
The African American Image in Advertising
Audrey Davis, Assistant Director / Curator, Alexandria Black History
Museum
The evolution of African American representations in American
advertising is a complex and controversial subject. For many years,
the prevailing image of African Americans in print media and packaging
was one of condescension and ridicule. This lecture focuses on
the history of the African American image in advertising using
examples from the 19th century to the present day. The images
considered follow the changes made by advertisers as they became
aware of the power of the African American consumer. A portion
of the lecture is devoted to the career of the late Moss H. Kendrix,
president of the Moss Kendrix Organization, one of the first African
American public relations firms in the United States. Moss Kendrix
helped to change the advertising industry by insisting on realistic
portrayals of African Americans in the media.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Freedom in Pigment: Henry O. Tanner's Life and Work
Dr. Elizabeth L. O'Leary, Associate Curator of American Art, VMFA
In celebration of VMFA's acquisition of Henry O. Tanner's Christ
and His Disciples on the Sea of Galilee (ca. 1910), this lecture
explores the life and work of America's foremost African American
painter at the turn of the 20th century. Achieving both national
and international acclaim, this expatriate artist employed religious
imagery as a vehicle for artistic expression as well as a means
for conveying his own spirituality.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
American Art through 1950
Women in and out of the Kitchen
Vicki Fama, Instructor of Art History, James Madison University
The nineteenth century was a period of political and cultural
turmoil as the young nation searched for its identity. During
the unstable years following the Civil War, cultural constructs
of gender were increasingly fixed. More specifically, the role
of women in the art world was multifaceted, even contradictory
at times. While painting and sculpture often operated within a
coded framework of ideal femininity, female artists and patrons
also lived and worked in a complex relationship to such a code,
with varying motives and outcomes. This lecture examines works
by both male and female artists, exploring the many ways femininity
was defined, reinforced, and tested in late 19th century art and
culture.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011.
Reel American Artfulness
Trent Nicholas, Coordinator of Statewide Media Resources, VMFA
Edwin Porter and D. W. Griffith were our country's first true
artists of cinema. Both seized upon America's past and current
history for inspiration in their creations. Porter's exciting
"shoot 'em up", The Great Train Robbery (1903), is the
first known movie western and began making that genre a part of
American mythology. Griffith's poignant A Corner in Wheat (1909)
has surprising currency for us today as a statement on socio-economic
conditions. Both films were crucial in maturing the art of cinema
and making the film experience a fixture in American life.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011.
From Henri to Hopper: American Realist Painters
Dr. Elizabeth L. O'Leary, Associate Curator of American Art, VMFA
Aligned with the Realism of earlier French artists such as Courbet
and Manet, Robert Henri and a close association of American painters
strove to create images of their own time and place. Themes like
impoverished city children or glimpses through night windows jarred
the sensibilities of those used to more genteel scenes. "Instead
of painting powder puffs," John Sloan noted, "we painted
brooms." The next generation, including George Bellows and
Edward Hopper, would take the Realist tradition into new realms.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Travels of a VMFA Portrait
Dr. Susan J. Rawles, Assistant Curator of American Decorative
Art, VMFA
In 1774, on the cusp of the Revolutionary War, John Singleton
Copley (1738-1815), America's foremost portrait painter, departed
Boston for a Grand Tour of Italy, and eventually settled in London.
Shortly thereafter, the Medford merchant-widower, Isaac Royall
(1718-1781), likewise fled to England, taking with him two portraits
by Copley, including VMFA's Mrs. Isaac Royall. This talk follows
the portrait from Massachusetts to London and considers the various
factors that informed its re-painting and its eventual arrival
at the Virginia Museum.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Quilts: Piecing America
Barbara Rothermel, Director, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College
American folk art, whether functional or simply decorative, serves
as a reminder for the need for beauty and the human impulse for
creativity. Most young women in 19th-century America, charged
with being upholders of conduct, piety, and morality, and conditioned
to accept the tenants of "true womanhood," accepted
the domestic life and expressed their creativity by providing
a functional and decorative house. The bed, both figuratively
and literally, was a focus of life, as women were constantly giving
birth. Creation of textile arts such as quilts was not simply
for function (keeping the bed warm), nor for fame or fortune.
These creations brought an aesthetic and spiritual sustenance
to women, their families, and their communities. This slide lecture
places quilt-making within the context of American folk art by
exploring the origins of the folk art tradition of quilt-making
in the U.S.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
The Great Road: Decorative Arts from Southwest Virginia
Betsy White, Art Historian, member of Virginia Cultural Heritage
Commission
For the past fifteen years, Betsy White and her team of scholars
have been delving into the decorative arts traditions of Southwest
Virginia and Northeast Tennessee, parts of two states linked geographically,
culturally and historically. Settled during the last years of
the 18th and first years of the 19th centuries, it became America's
first frontier, connecting the eastern seaboard with Kentucky,
Tennessee and beyond. Its settlers came down the Valley of Virginia
on the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road or simply the Great Road,
as it was known locally. Artisans followed settlers, bringing
with them the material culture of their homelands. What sprang
up was a lively blend of cultural traditions that formed a distinctive
style of furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork and music. Join
Betsy White as she leads us through the friendly country forms
of pie safes and quilts, overshot coverlets woven from wool and
flax grown on the homeplace, elegant high style furniture made
by Philadelphia-trained cabinetmakers, and pottery decorated with
splotches, daubs and streaks. White's field work has resulted
in over 2000 records. Taken together, they create a Great Road
style, one that is beginning to take its place in American decorative
arts.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
My VMFA: American Art
Dr. Sylvia Yount, Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of
American Art, VMFA
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is undergoing the most comprehensive
renovation and expansion in its 73-year history. This pending
transformation offers an unprecedented opportunity to rethink
the overall shape, display, and interpretation of the museum's
holdings. Galleries for historical American Art will more than
double their previous footprint in order to showcase the full
breadth and depth of this important collection. Dr. Yount discusses
the upcoming installation of the Museum's fine and decorative
arts of the United States, from the late 17th to the mid-20th
century, and previews the multilayered, chronological framework
that is punctuated by stylistic, thematic and socio-historical
vignettes.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Ancient Art (Greek, Roman, Egyptian)
Out of Africa: Connections between Black Africa and Mediterranean
Cultures
Dr. Elizabeth A. Fisher, Associate Professor of Classics and the
Arts, Randolph-Macon College
Over the past two hundred years, archaeology has become an academic
vocation, concentrating in the "Old World" on the cultures
known from the Hebrew/Christian Bible and Greek and Latin literature.
Until very recently, much less attention was given to cultures
outside Egypt, southwest Asia, and Europe. It is now increasingly
and rightfully acknowledged that these early civilizations did
not emerge alone, but were indebted in many ways to the resources
and peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Ocean, and central
Asia. In this lecture, tantalizing clues to connections between
the Mediterranean cultures and Black Africa are presented, and
the questions, which remain unanswered, about the exchanges between
these two important regions of the world are discussed.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Roman Portraiture: Power, Politics and Propaganda
Courtney Morano, Coordinator of Tour Services, VMFA
Portraits of elite Romans were more than just commemorative and
honorific; in fact, they were vehicles of expression which had
their very own language. Roman portraiture from the late Republic
through the reign of Constantine was intimately tied to expressing
power, politics, and propaganda. This lecture discusses examples
of these impressive images from VMFA's collection and others in
a journey through Rome's visual language of portraiture.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
My VMFA: The Classical World
Dr. Peter Schertz, Curator of Ancient Art, VMFA
Dr. Peter Schertz provides an overview of the history and holdings
of the department of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts, showing images of some highlights of the collection. He
also discusses the future of the department in terms of potential
acquisitions, the planning for the reinstallation of the galleries,
and future exhibitions
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Decorative Arts & Design: Fabergé,
Art Nouveau, Art Deco
Architect As Designer: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Celeste Fetta, Acting Chair of Adult and Higher Education, VMFA
Mackintosh never thought of himself as an architect; he preferred
the term artist. Investigate the ways in which his artistic eye
penetrates his architecture and decorative design making Mackintosh
one of the most celebrated artists at the turn of the 20th century.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Buckle Up: Archibald Knox & Celtic Revival
Celeste Fetta, Acting Chair of Adult and Higher Education, VMFA
In England at the turn of the last century everyone knew Liberty
& Co., the London firm founded in 1875 that sold modern design
to the British Middle Class. However, the designer behind the
firm's trademark enamel, interlace, and Celtic symbols was hardly
a household name. In this lecture, lift the veil of secrecy that
defined Liberty's policy on designers to uncover the mastery of
Archibald Knox. By exploring VMFA's collection of over 20 of his
pieces, you will find a man who taught design in London, researched
and illustrated ancient crosses on the Isle of Man, and is now
credited with defining the look of Liberty's and the Celtic Revival.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Let in the Light: Stained Glass and Architecture
Margaret Hancock, Director of Programs, Virginia Center for Architecture
Across centuries and continents, artists and architects alike
have incorporated stained glass windows into their designs. Stained
glass windows highlight both effective design and effective engineering,
resulting in beautiful finished works of art. In 2008, the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts acquired two such works-windows designed by
Frederick Wilson and completed by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating
Company in 1900 for All Saints Episcopal Church in Richmond. This
presentation explores such noteworthy stained glass windows through
a brief history of stained glass within the built environment,
from first century Pompeii to twenty-first century America.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
My VMFA: Jewelry at VMFA
Barry Shifman, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Late
19th and Early 20th Century Decorative Arts, VMFA
This lecture examines the distinguished collection of American
and European jewelry made between 1890 and 1930 reflecting the
Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco movements. These highly
impressive objects were collected primarily by Sydney and Frances
Lewis of Richmond, Virginia, and Dr, Karl and Gisela Kreuzer of
Munich, Germany. Examples of jewelry made by Rene Lalique, Georges
Fouquet, Georg Jensen, Archibald Knox, Alexander Fisher, and other
celebrated artists are included in this presentation.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Wit and Elegance: Fabergé and Schlumberger
Della Watkins, Associate Director of Education and Statewide Partnerships,
VMFA
Imagination and delight are vital ingredients in life, in creative
expression, and in art museums! Explore the wit and elegance of
two grand designers, Peter Carl Fabergé and Jean Schlumberger;
though born 61 years and continents apart, each brilliantly mesmerized
and delighted customers from Russian czars to Hollywood celebrities.
Enjoy their traditions of eclectic splendor in the glittering
objets de fantaisie within the permanent collections of the Virginia
Museum of Fine Art. Spend an hour marveling over the use of buttery
gold, the handling of gems, and the delicate details of such treasures
as those found on the Imperial Easter Eggs, within flowers, on
boxes, in jewelry, and among the extraordinary decorative arts.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
East Asian
My VMFA: East Asian Art
Li Jian, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of East Asian
Art, VMFA
In the lecture, the speaker will take a look at the collection
history of the East Asian Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
The collection consists of three parts: Chinese, Korean and Japanese
art. The highlights include Chinese bronzes and jade, Chinese
and Japanese Buddhist sculpture, Chinese imperial art, Korean
ceramics and paintings, and Japanese paintings and prints, as
well as recent acquisitions. The speaker will also introduce the
floor plan for the new East Asian gallery, which is scheduled
to open in May 2010.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Japanese Culture During the Edo Period
Dr. Rosemary Smith, Art Historian
The Edo Period was the time of shoguns, samurai, Kabuki, and the
famous ukiyo-e prints. This lecture provides the context for these
elements and discusses the subjects, techniques, and aesthetic
principles of the ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Japan.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
The Sacred Architecture of Japan
Dr. Rosemary Smith, Art Historian
This lecture explores Shinto and Buddhism, two of the major religions
of Japan. The overview includes a discussion of how they developed,
their places of worship, their sources, aesthetic principles,
and how they are applied to life and art in Japan.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
European Art: Byzantine through 1950
Artemisia Gentileschi
Vicki Fama, Instructor of Art History, James Madison University
In the male-dominated art world of Baroque Europe the young daughter
of artist Orazio Gentileschi stands out to historians today for
her skillful work and curious biography. Although stylistically
influenced by her father's circle of friends and the works of
the famed Caravaggio, Gentileschi also made a decidedly unique
mark in her repeated exploration of the female heroine. Her paintings
of such Biblical figures as Judith and Susanna, as well as classical
goddesses and queens, are often studied as reflections of the
artist herself. This lecture explores her treatment of such subjects,
in addition to some theories as to how much of Artemisia we can
hope to find in her paintings.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo: Is Man the Measure of
All Things?
Vicki Fama, Instructor of Art History, James Madison University
Two of the greatest artists of the Renaissance were known to be
great rivals and both had successful careers working for some
of Europe's most powerful political and religious leaders. But
how similar were these two artists? By examining their drawings,
paintings, and texts, this lecture explores the underlying artistic
theories held by each man, illuminating in the process how their
two very unique artistic styles were still a product of the larger
Renaissance world of which they were a part.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
European Colonialism Caught by the Lens
Dr. Jennifer Foley, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
The invention and popularization of photography occurred during
the rise and consolidation of colonialism by Europe in Asia, Africa,
and the Middle East. This lecture investigates the ways in which
colonialism was recorded on film, both officially and unofficially,
and the ways in which these photographic views continue to influence
our perceptions of former colonial territories today.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Heavenly Women: A Mysterious Masterpiece at VMFA
Dr. Donald Schrader, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Mary Washington
University
Who was the Master of 1499? We know he worked in the city of Bruges;
and we know a dozen or so of his works - but we do not have the
name of the artist, known today after a date that appears on one
of his paintings. One of his best and most complex works is the
Virgin among Virgins in the collection of the Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts, which shows Mary attended by four female saints
in the garden of Heaven. The painting itself poses fascinating
questions about its creator and his relationship with some of
the greatest Netherlandish masters of his time; and almost every
part of the picture - from the landscape itself to the smallest
flowers - holds symbolic meaning to be deciphered by the faithful.
This lecture explores the content of an exceptional painting and
the artistic environment in which it was created.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Icons: Windows into the Divine
Dr. Donald Schrader, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Mary Washington
University
Modern viewers often see the icon - a type of religious image
still in use in the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches - as a
charming and somewhat primitive type of painting. Nothing could
be further from the truth: the icon, from its earliest inception,
is a highly intellectual and consciously spiritualized image.
The beliefs with which icons are infused are so powerful that
they have led to their being outlawed for a time in the 8th and
9th centuries; but their meanings are so profound that their use
has survived even the most concerted attempts to stifle them.
In this lecture Dr. Schrader introduces the theology behind the
icon, briefly recounts the history of icons in the West, and explains
the meanings behind some of the most important individual types
of religious image.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Late 20th and 21st Century Art
Mystical Matisse
Todd Cronan, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Virginia
Commonwealth University
It is often argued that modern art and the art museum replaced
religious ritual. Indeed, Matisse granted art an almost religious
sense of purpose. His art could heal, soothe, and alter his viewer's
whole way of understanding the world. Through a controlled interplay
of line and color he even thought he could hypnotically capture
the minds of his viewers. But what happens to an artist when he
captured by his audience in return?
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Market vs. Museum: Contemporary Craft
Steven Glass, Resident Potter, Studio School, VMFA
Many potters came of age during the "slick gallery vessel
as God" period of American ceramic history, which was roughly
from 1978 to 1988. It was a heady and headlong time when clay
art rattled the windows of fine art mansions everywhere. Exhibitions
such as The Eloquent Object were mounted and toured, showing the
world how far the crafts had evolved. But by 1990, the bottom
dropped out of the art market and the crafts disciplines were
not excluded. This lecture examines the current state of crafts
within the context of an investment-driven art market and its
continuing impact on the tradition of functional pottery.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Delving into Design
Margaret Hancock, Director of Public Programs, Virginia Center
for Architecture
Design is all around us-from the basket carried at the grocery
store to Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #541 admired outside VMFA's
Sydney and Frances Lewis Galleries of Modern and Contemporary
Art. Through the review of design concepts and completed works
of art, this presentation explores the fundamentals of design.
Innovation, aesthetics, elements of art, manipulation of forms
and ideas, and collaboration are addressed. By delving into design,
participants gain a sense of design literacy and discover how
to think like designers.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Ransom of Russian Art: Notes from the Underground
Twyla Kitts, Acting Chair of Teacher and Student Education, VMFA
What do Russian icons of the Kievan era and fabulous Faberge objects
have in common with Russian dissident art of the 1960s and 70s?
Follow the threads that connect Russian art through the centuries
in this exploration of Russian culture and history.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Surrealism in Film
Trent Nicholas, Coordinator of Statewide Media Resources, VMFA
Surrealistic paintings are often cited when defining the movement
called Surrealism of the 1920s, but just as much as paintings,
those amazing and mysterious early Surrealist artists were delighted
by motion pictures. They watched them and made them with the thought
that motion pictures were truly capable of capturing the dream-type
narrative that is such an important part of the Surrealistic imperative.
This is a presentation of significant Dada and Surrealistic short
films made in the 1920s by the movement's major figures Man Ray,
Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter, Luis Bunuel, and Salvador Dali.
Aimed at college level and above but may be altered for high school
also.
Man Ray - Return to Reason (1923)
Marcel Duchamp - Anemic Cinema (1926)
Hans Richter - Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali - An Andalusian Dog (1929)
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
My VMFA: Late 20th and Early 21st Century Art
John Ravenal, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern
and Contemporary Art, VMFA
The Modern and Contemporary Collection at the Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts is recognized as outstanding and contains a vast
number of sculptures, paintings, photographs, video art and collages.
Join John Ravenal, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art, for
a lecture concerning the collection's works produced during and
after the post-war period, as New York emerged as the new center
of the art world. From Jackson Pollock to Sally Mann, Ravenal
discusses works of art that are exceptionally poignant to VMFA
and American art history.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Why is that Art?
Emily Smith, Curatorial Fellow, Modern and Contemporary Art, VMFA
Looking at modern art can often be challenging. It always raises
questions, even amongst the most knowledgeable viewers - What
is an abstract painting "of"? How do you determine if
something is "good"? A close look at the history of
modern art, dating from roughly 1870 through 1950, demonstrates
that the changes that occurred, chiefly that art became more abstract,
were not arbitrary but rather developed along deliberate paths.
Artists were not working in a vacuum but were responding to changes
in technology like the development of photography, cultural moments
like the industrial revolution and WWI and WWII, as well as the
artists and movements that preceded them. Using works from VMFA's
collection, this chronological telling of important moments in
modern art provides the context in which to answer questions like:
What is an abstract painting of? How do you determine if something
is "good"?
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
The Greening of Art: How Art Can Change the World and Other
Untold Secrets of Contemporary Art Practices
Jennifer Van Winkle, Artist and Arts Choreographer
Can art really change this world? What is "green art"?
This presentation discusses contemporary artists who create site-specific
installations and community-based projects which relate to environment
issues, including going green and sustainability. The lecture
covers artists who create work which improves the physical environment
to artists who make work with recycled materials and focus on
raising environmental awareness.
Both artists working in natural and human-made materials are highlighted.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Installation Art: What is it?
Jennifer Van Winkle, Artist and Arts Choreographer
You see a chair in the middle of a gallery space. Is it a forgotten
piece of furniture? Is it art? Is it sculpture? Is it an installation?
And how is installation art different from sculpture? This presentation
takes a closer look at the origins of installation art, including
site-specific work and conceptual work. Methods and ways artists
use and interact with the element of space are emphasized. Both
indoor (gallery spaces and non-gallery based) and outdoor (environmental
art and public artworks) by historical and contemporary artists
are discussed.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
South Asian
Tomb, Palace, and Pavilion: Mughal Gardens and Garden Architecture
John Henry Rice, Associate Curator of South Asian and Islamic
Art, VMFA
The dramatic centerpiece of VMFA's newly reinstalled South Asian
collections will be a magnificent late-Mughal garden pavilion.
Its white marble surfaces are carved with refined floral decoration,
and a fountain basin rests in the middle of its intricately inlaid
floor. This light, airy structure probably graced a royal or aristocratic
garden complex not far from India's most famous work of garden
architecture: the Taj Mahal. In celebration of this important
new acquisition, this talk explores the history of north India's
Mughal gardens and focuses on the architectural monuments that
adorned them.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Lessons of the Indian Epic Poem, the Ramayana
The great Indian epic poem—the Ramayana—has been passed down for hundreds of generations, and its influence can be seen in Indian art, literature, history, and even Indian statecraft. This lecture explores Hindu culture by examining the characters of the Ramayana, and the choices they make through an investigation of the epic poem, the Ramayana, and the ways in which the story is told through the visual arts.
Mellon Collection - American
Travels with George Catlin
Jeffrey W. Allison, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
George Catlin recorded for posterity the appearances and customs
of the Indian tribes of North America. Between 1830 and 1836,
Catlin made five trips to the American West. From his visits to
fifty-eight tribes, he produced 485 paintings and collected over
seven tons of artifacts. These he exhibited in the United States
and Europe as Catlin's Indian Gallery. Throughout his life, Catlin
struggled to keep the collection whole and pursued its acquisition
by the newly created Smithsonian Institution. This lecture looks
at Catlin's life from his travels through the American West to
the end of his career when, facing bankruptcy, he traveled to
South America and rekindled his interest in painting and the scientific
recording of Native American life.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Winslow Homer and Eastman Johnson: The Civil War in Virginia
Dr. Debra Hanson, Adjunct Professor of Art History & Humanities,
University of Richmond
While Manet's assertion that "one must be of one's time and
paint what one sees" was a rallying cry for the Impressionists
in France, this conviction also guided the work of many of their
contemporaries in America. In the 1860s, two of America's most
prominent artists, Eastman Johnson and Winslow Homer, witnessed
the Civil War first hand. This experience affected them deeply,
as it did all Americans; indeed, few events have impacted our
nation and its people so profoundly. No state played a more central
role in this tragic conflict than Virginia, or figured more prominently
in its written and visual histories. This presentation examines
Eastman Johnson and Winslow Homer's images of the Civil War and
Reconstruction, many of which picture Virginia subjects, settings
and events. Works such as Johnson's A Ride for Liberty-The Fugitive
Slaves (1862) and Homer's Prisoners from the Front (1866), Army
Teamsters (1866), and Sunday Morning in Virginia (1877) are considered
in terms of their artistic innovation as well as their historical
importance.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Mellon Collection - French
Mother, Model, Mistress, Master: Suzanne Valadon
Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
Born in 1865 to an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon worked
as a teenage circus acrobat until accident left her without a
job. While residing in the Montmarte district of Paris, she became
an artist's model whose beauty attracted the artistic as well
as erotic attentions of Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Puvis de
Chavannes. Although she seems to have drawn and painted even as
a young child, Valadon never officially studied art. She refined
her skills by observing artists who employed her. Edgar Degas
became a major force in her life as introduced Valadon's work
to dealers and galleries and taught her his favorite methods of
printmaking.
Over the years, Suzanne Valadon the artist has often been overshadowed
by Valadon the provocateur. In this lecture, Jeffrey W. Allison,
Paul Mellon Collection Educator, traces Valadon's life through
clues in her own artwork and in the images of her found in the
works of the artists captured in her life's flame.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Mystery of The Night Café: Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent van Gogh
Dr. Cliff Edwards, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
Cliff Edwards explores the spirituality of one of the world's most beloved artists, Vincent Van Gogh, through one of Western art's most mysterious paintings, The Night Café. Enter the imagination of Van Gogh through the books he read, the art he admired, and the people with whom he identified, and arrive at startling conclusions that include a new and deeply spiritual understanding of a café after midnight and the "night prowlers" who inhabit it.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 – June 2011
Renoir's Ladies
Jeffrey W. Allison, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
Of all the artists who made up the Impressionist movement Renoir
is probably one of the most popular today. Perhaps it is his inspired
use of color or his vigorous brush work that has won the heart
of the general public, but most likely it has to do with his choice
of subjects including pretty children, flowers and beautiful scenes.
However, he is known above all for his paintings of lovely women.
Jeffrey W. Allison, Paul Mellon Collection Educator, discusses
some of Renoir's best loved paintings and his models including
Nini de Lopez and Suzanne Valadon.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris
Jeffrey W. Allison, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
Paris in the 1890s was at the height of the Belle Epoque. Carefree
life, fickleness, and Joie de Vivre: these three words sum up
this unique period in the History of France. It was a rest between
two wars, a period of transition between two centuries during
which the social barriers collapsed and the industrial revolution
gave hope of a better life for all. Photography, Japonism, new
styles of writing from the Realists to the Symbolists, and politics
were obvious influences on the painters of the era. Less well
known but equally influential were the mediums that grew up in
the new Café concert halls and cabarets. Shadow Puppet
plays, songs performed by Chanteuse and Diseuse, and, of course,
the dancers-from La Goulue and Jane Avril in the cabarets to Loie
Fuller fresh from America. The beating heart of this world was
the Butte-Montmartre and it was to the center of this world that
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec came in 1881.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
The Wine of Genius: Maurice Utrillo and His Portrait of
Montmartre
Jeffrey W. Allison, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
Maurice Utrillo is one of the few painters of Montmartre who was
actually born there. The son of the painter Suzanne Valadon, Utrillo
was known as much for his drinking and his friendships with Modigliani
as for his depictions of the district. Encouraged by his mother,
and as a distraction from his craving for alcohol, he began to
draw and paint scenes of cafés, churches and deserted squares
around his home. Initially influenced by Impressionism, he developed
a personal style when depicting the streets of Montmartre, using
light colors and thickly applied, impasto paint, which proved
popular and helped create the area's romantic, artistic image.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
A Trip to the Tropics: Armchair Adventures with Henri Rousseau
Dr. Jennifer Foley, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
French painter Henri Rousseau is perhaps best known for his tropical
landscapes, at times dreamy and surrealistic, and always lush
and brimming with life. For those familiar with his paintings,
such as the Tropical Landscape: American Indian Struggling with
Gorilla in VMFA's Paul Mellon Collection, it may come as a surprise
to learn that Rousseau never ventured outside of his native France.
In this lecture we investigate the man known as the Douanier,
or Customs Officer, and his imaginative sojourns deep into jungle
landscapes.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
At Home with Vuillard
Dr. Jennifer Foley, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
Works by the French painter Edouard Vuillard grace the collections
of many of the world's most important museums, from the Metropolitan
Museum of Fine Arts to the Louvre, and from the National Gallery
to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Unlike many of his contemporaries,
his skills and his paintings were well received and greatly admired
during his lifetime. He was a member of the Nabis group, along
with painters such as Bonnard, and we think of him today for his
beautiful images of domestic life. In this talk we investigate
these quiet works, as well as the parts of Vuillard's
Oeuvre that may be less familiar-and even surprising!
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Cinema Culture of Impressionists
Trent Nicholas, Coordinator of Statewide Media Resources, VMFA
Experience what the Impressionist painters would have seen at
the movies; rather, those artists who were still alive when the
movies came along in 1895. That would include Monet (if he was
still seeing okay), Degas, Renoir, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
The French were in the forefront of developing the technology
and art of motion pictures in the 1890s and early 1900s. These
short films represent major milestones in actual happenings in
French daily life. Georges Melies added imagination, fantasy,
special effects, and color (yes, color). To screen:
Selections from the Lumière Bros.: Actualities (1895-1897)
Georges Melies: The Impossible Voyage (1904)
Pathe Freres Co.: Aladin and His Lamp (1906)
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Audience: General audiences.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
How the Impressionists Painted
Dr. Donald Schrader, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Mary Washington
University
"If there had been no paints in tubes, there would have been
no Impressionism." Thus Camille Pissarro acknowledged the
importance of modern, manufactured materials for the classic Impressionist
practice of painting directly from nature. But new paints were
only the beginning: new kinds of paintbrush, new colors and new
kinds of canvas also contributed to the daring new experiments
of the 1870's and 80's. Above all, these materials and tools served
to enable the exploration of a new way of understanding color,
an optical theory that had only been uncovered a generation before;
and it was the ability to recognize, and to replicate, the characteristics
of individual colors themselves that made Impressionism such a
revolution in the nature of art itself. In this lecture Dr. Schrader
explores the painting methods of the Impressionists, and their
relationship to standard artistic practices of the 19th century.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Mellon Collection - British Sporting Art
A Brilliant Disorder: The Works of William Blake
Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
From his early visions as a child to his later prints and poems,
Blake saw the world through the vivid lens of his personal theology.
Influencing countless artists and writers, most of which worked
long after his death, Blake's imaginative genius still enthralls
viewers today. Though most often known for his poetry and prose,
Blake was also an accomplished artist, regarded as seminal and
significant within the history of both art and literature. Focusing
on his illuminations, prints, and paintings in the context of
his personal and literary life, this lecture explores the life
and work of William Blake, English poet, mystic, and artist.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
The Hierarchy of the Hunt: 18th Century British Sporting
Art
Jeffrey W. Allison, Paul Mellon Statewide Educator, VMFA
English nobility's enthusiasm for field sports was at its height
during the 18th century. The growing passion for foxhunting and
horseracing led to a new trend in art: paintings of British society
engaged in outdoor pursuits. These paintings consistently portray
the wealth of the landed gentry. Gentlemen-and sometimes ladies-are
depicted on their estates and with their racehorses, hunters,
and other animals. This new field of painting brought together
portraiture, landscape, and genre painting. This lecture looks
at a variety of artists from the Paul Mellon collection, including
Stubbs, Wootton, Reinagle, Calcraft-Turner, and Pollard.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Rustic England: Country Life According to George Morland
Corey Piper, Curatorial Assistant for the Paul Mellon Collection,
VMFA
The countryside and rural life became a national obsession in
18th-century England, dominating art, literature, decorative arts
and even tourism. Among the many artists to depict country life
during that period, George Morland was perhaps the most sought-after,
producing many thousands of images of rustic subjects and rivaling
even the popularity and influence of the English master Thomas
Gainsborough.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Pre-Columbian & American Indian Art
Changing Perspectives: American Indian Art
Barbara Rothermel, Director, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College
Truth, purpose, and beauty in non-Western art--art that does not
originate from the Euro-American perspective, but which has developed
from the social, spiritual, and political needs of diverse people
across the world--is often misunderstood. This lecture focuses
on Native American arts, and is supported by writings by Franz
Boaz and Vine Deloria, Jr. There is really no such thing as "The
American Indian" or "The Native American." The
American Indian world is far more complex than this. To begin
to understand this world, we must go beyond a simple identification
process and grasp the worldviews that Native American art reflects.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Moche Ceramics: Portraits of the Natural World
Dr. Paula Winn, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Of all the civilizations that produced sophisticated ceramics
in ancient South America, only the Moche created exquisite and
accurate portraits of individual members of their society. In
addition, they used three-dimensional ceramic vessels to record
the world around them, including depictions of the flora and fauna
indigenous to the surrounding regions. This lecture explores the
sculptural ceramics produced by the Moche who occupied the north
coast of Peru from c. 100-800 CE.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
General
Reclaimed: Nazi Looted Art
Karen Daly, Registrar and Administrator, VMFA
Issues of looted art and restitution, particularly of art misappropriated
during the Nazi-era, continue to be very prevalent topics in art
news coverage and remain important concerns for museums worldwide.
VMFA's Karen Daly provides an overview of what the Museum has
worked towards in the area of Nazi-era provenance research, as
well as a discussion of VMFA's experiences in resolving two Nazi-era
restitution claims.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Backyard Beautiful: Art in the Neighborhood
Margaret Hancock, Director of Programs, Virginia Center for Architecture
Art does not just exist on the walls; rather, it presents itself
in everyday spaces and places, from store windows to the local
house of worship. Even a front porch can demonstrate the fundamental
elements of art: composition, use of line, space, color, shape,
and form. This presentation offers a unique perspective on art,
merging notions of traditional museum-quality masterpieces with
nontraditional neighborhood works of art.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Stranger than Fiction: Great Art Heists in History
Anne Kenny-Urban, Assistant Head of Risk Management, VMFA
Discover what Japanese gangsters, bear spray and daring boat getaways
have in common with noteworthy art thefts. In this lecture, you
will travel the globe learning why museums from Amsterdam to Zimbabwe
have been targets for thieves and what tools
they used to elude detection. Find out who got caught…and
who did not!
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Poetic Visions: What Poets See When They Look at Art
Lisa Rhody, Literary Scholar
Poetry and painting have been referred to as the sister arts,
but they have not always been sisters well suited to each other's
company. In fact, some artists, including leading lights such
as Leonardo da Vinci, have advocated for one of the sisters over
the other, arguing for the superior (and eminently more worthy
of a patron's support) merits of painting over that of poetry.
However, there have also been poets and painters alike who have
disagreed, insisting that the arts have much to offer one another.
The poetic tradition of narrating, describing, and often "speaking
for" painting appears as early as Homer's Illiad and endures
throughout history producing some of the 20th century's best loved
works. Poets such as W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore,
Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, John Ashbury, and Jorie Graham
participate in this tradition. Guided through examples of popular
20th century poems, this talk explores the relationship between
the arts, uncovering what these sisters share when painting becomes
the subject of the poet's pen.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
A Collectors Guide to Prints
Dr. Rosemary Smith, Art Historian
This lecture provides a brief history of the development of several
widely used printmaking techniques and a detailed explanation
of each process. A more thorough understanding of just how complex
and difficult printmaking is allows the audience to appreciate
more fully this often-underestimated form of art.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is supported by the Paul Mellon Endowment.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Affairs of the Heart: Love and Romance in Masterpieces of
Art
Dr. Mary Sweeney Ellett, Art Historian
Extraordinary, miraculous, unaccountable-these are the words that
describe our emotions of romantic love and display artists' imagination
throughout history. From the ancient Classical sculptures of Aphrodite
(Venus) and her mischievous son Eros (Cupid) to Titian, Rubens,
the Renaissance masters and later modern art, the theme of romantic
love has inspired artists and delighted their audiences, who agree
that "All the world loves a lover!"
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
Artistic Endeavors: Scandals, Schemes, and Scalawags in
the World of Art
Dr. Mary Sweeney Ellett, Art Historian
Some of us would like to imagine the art world as a refuge of
lofty idealism, pure and gentle, free from the harsher realities
of our own world. This program takes a lighthearted look at some
famous paintings that depict or caused a more dramatic, sometimes
even hostile public sensation. Whether you marvel at the tricks
of a 17th century card thief or wonder at the public outcry over
a dropped shoulder strap or a picnic luncheon, you will enjoy
this program.
This program has been organized by the VMFA Office of Statewide
Partnerships and is funded, in part, by the Jean Stafford Camp
Memorial Fund.
Available: July 2009 - June 2011
