20th Century Women in The Americas with Jennie Hirsh – G24070307
This five-day course focuses on twentieth-century women artists, beginning with a day dedicated to the life and work of Georgia O’Keefe and then expanding to examine several other women somehow connected to her either thematically, historically, or tangentially. Following our study of O’Keeffe, on subsequent days of this seminar, we will delve into the life and work of two or three specific women artists, including (but not limited to) Ruth Asawa, Rebecca Bellmore, Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Helen Frankenthaler, Gego, Yayoi Kusama, Tina Modotti, Doris Salcedo, Anne Truit, and Marie Watt—while of course considering other women artists affiliated with them and the contexts in which they have worked along the way. A combination of lecture and discussion, this seminar will likewise consider the ways in which women artists organized and mobilized in order to raise awareness and effect social change.
This workshop may also be taken virtually. Virtual tuition is $250. To register for the virtual option please contact Robin Keck at robink@ghostranch.org
Instructor
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Jennie HirshBased in Philadelphia, Jennie Hirsh is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a BA in classics (UPenn), an MA in Italian (Middlebury), and MA and PhD degrees in History of Art (Bryn Mawr). The recipient of numerous research fellowships—including a U.S. Fulbright to Italy and a Gladys Krieble Delmas grant—she has studied, conducted research, and taught in various cities throughout Italy for more than three decades.
Jennie has authored numerous book chapters, exhibition catalogue essays, and critical reviews on artists and filmmakers, such as Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Yinka Shonibare, Regina Silveira, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. She is co-editor, with Isabelle Loring Wallace, of Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (Ashgate/Routledge, 2011) and Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art (Routledge, 2023). She co-curated Invisible City (2020), a four-venue exhibition focused on visual culture produced between 1956 and 1976 in Philadelphia. Jennie is currently completing a monograph on self-representation in the painting and writing of Giorgio de Chirico, and her research areas also include fascist aesthetics, past and present, as well as visual culture and the holocaust, both subjects of future book projects under development.
Since 2009, Jennie has directed MICA’s summer travel intensive program focused on the history of the Venice Biennale of Art from its inception in 1895 to the present. When she is not teaching, writing, or doing research, she enjoys spending time with her golden retriever Tulip, who loves exploring. An enthusiastic teacher and occasional tour guide, Jennie enjoys offering online and in-person seminars on the history of art, architecture, and exhibitions for academic institutions and the general public.