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- CWAHI Session at UAAC Conference
- Univerity of Alberta
October 22-24, 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Panel
Universities Art Association of Canada Conference
University of Alberta, Edmonton, 22-24 October 2009.
The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative is a collaborative endeavour that brings resources and researchers together to enhance scholarship on historical women artists in Canada. For this open session, we welcome papers that deal with any aspect of women and artistic production in Canada prior to 1967. Proposals that combine historical and methodological considerations are particularly welcome, as are papers across a full spectrum of arts production, including craft, design, photography, architecture, illustration, and (of course) painting and drawing. For more information about CWAHI please see the project’s website: http://cwahi.concordia.ca
One-page abstracts (clearly indicating your name and insitutional affiliation) should be sent by June 1 to:
Dr. Kristina Huneault, Concordia University Department of Art History
Concordia University
huneault@alcor.concordia.ca
514-848-2424, ext. 4697
Please send documents in .doc. or .rtf format only. Submissions from students should be accompanied by a letter of support from their supervisor. - Course Offering
- ARTH 400/4-A – 3 cr.
ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ART HISTORICAL METHODS
Special Topic: A History of Canadian Women Artists
SEMESTER: JANUARY 2009
J-13:00-15:15
SGW
INSTRUCTOR: DR. KRISTINA HUNEAULT
There is no textbook for this class – and this is significant because of what it tells us about the history of women’s art in Canada. Despite three decades of research and writing in the field, there is still no published scholarly history of women’s contributions to the visual culture of Canada. What might such a history look like were it to be written today? Together, we will consider the various methodological challenges raised by the project of writing a history of women’s art in Canada prior to 1967. Access to basic information about women artists is one of these issues, and students will enhance their understanding of research methods, including the use of primary documents. We will also consider the philosophical and political implications of the organization of information. Beyond the basic injunction to ‘include more women’, feminism has leveled a number of significant critiques at the writing of art history; how would a history of Canadian women artists accommodate these challenges? What other methodological perspectives would be crucial for such a history?
This course is offered as part of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative – a Concordia-based collaborative research project to foster scholarship on women and the arts in Canada. Open to 15 participants, students will have the opportunity to use the Initiative’s resources, and to contribute to its projects. Advanced seminars provide a unique educational opportunity to their participants, offering enhanced opportunities for participation and more personalized interactions with the professor and amongst fellow students. At the same time, the seminar demands a high degree of motivation and commitment, including substantial preparation time for each class, the willingness to work collaboratively, and a readiness to undertake modest research travel if necessary. You are asked to visit the CWAHI website
- Course Offering
- Canadian Women Artists as Historical Subjects (Fall 2008)
Concordia University
ARTH 627C/2 AA Feminism, Art, Art History: Canadian Women Artists as Historical Subjects
SEMESTER: 1st – Fall 2008
Tuesdays 18:00-21:00
Room EV-3-760
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Kristina Huneault
The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative is offering its first course as part of the Art History MA program at Concordia University; participants will have the opportunity to use the Initiative's resources and participate in its research activities. The course explores the possibilities for encounter between scholarship on historical Canadian women artists and contemporary theorizing about subjectivity. The ongoing task of reclaiming the history of Canadian women artists has produced a substantial body of biographically oriented scholarship. Concurrently, issues of subjectivity and identity have predominated in the field of cultural theory. While there is a clear potential for overlap between these approaches, such an exchange is still in the developmental process. This course will give participants an opportunity to contribute to that development, exploring questions around the place of selfhood in art made be women in Canada during the 19th and early 20th-century centuries. The course is open to students registered in Concordia's Art History MA program. Expressions of interest in the course from those not registered in the program are welcome, and should be directed to Kristina Huneault: huneault at alcor dot concordia dot ca. - Connections: CWAHI Inaugural Conference (October 2-4, 2008)
- The conference aims to unite and assess current scholarship in the field. What are the current concerns of art historians studying Canadian women artists’ lives and practices? Has the process of recuperation been successful? Is it time to begin the process of consolidation? While gender considerations continue to serve as an impetus for inquiry, current research on historical Canadian women addresses a multitude of subjects, including, but not limited to: First Nations history; colonialism and nationhood; the international evolution of aesthetic styles; travel and identity; sexuality and corporeal experience; women and craft; the relation of biography to visual production; professional and amateur networks; and the emergence of urbanism. In these areas and others factually based archival research and theoretically informed critical analysis exist side by side. How can these approaches be mutually informative? Conference Program.
- Conference Funding Received (August 2008)
- We are pleased to announce that CWAHI received a $20,000 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to fund its inaugural conference, Connections. The funding will help bring speakers from across Canada to Montreal, and will also enable us to offer employment to students who are assisting in conference organization. We are also grateful to the Gail and Stephen A. Jarisolwsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art for its support of the event, and to Concordia University for generous funding through the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Office of the Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies.
- Funding for Computer Equipment (August 2008)
- CWAHI received $3000 from the Concordia Library Research Fund to fund the purchase of a server for our web-based database projects. The first of these ongoing projects, our Artist Database is available to researchers. We are currently developing a second major project, Canadian Exhibition Reviews Online. This is a collaborative initiative with the National Gallery of Canada and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to digitize catalogues and exhibition reviews for the major annual exhibitions of the Royal Canadian Academy and the Art Association of Montreal.
- CWAHI Inaugural Conference : Call for papers
- 18 August, 2007
