Join us for The Salon at The Benton
Friday, September 25, 2015, 5 to 7 pm
Dotted Dialogues: Australian Indigenous Art
The traditional iconography of the works in Dotted Dialogues: Contemporary Indigenous Art from Central Australia relates ancestral stories as a way of reconnecting Indigenous communities with their ancestors, land, and cultural heritage while simultaneously sharing it with the world.
Panelists:
Francoise Dussart, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UConn. Her specialties include Australian Aboriginal society and culture, iconography and visual systems, ritual and social organization, expressions of gender, and health and citizenship. The exhibition was curated by the students in the Spring 2015 Anthropological Perspectives in Art class, under her direction.
Anne D'Alleva, Dean, School of Fine Arts, UConn. Her research interests include the arts of 18th- and 19th-century Tahiti and the Society Islands, examining the ways that gender and the visual arts shaped interactions between Society Islanders and the explorers, missionaries, and colonizers. She is also interested in contemporary Pacific Island art and issues of gender, visual art, and performance.
Moderator: Katrina Higgins oversees the CLAS Academic Services Center. Dr. Higgins earned her doctorate from the University of Tasmania where she completed her dissertation on treaty making and the Tasmanian Aborigines. She has held a variety of student support positions in Australia and at UConn.
5 - 5:30 pm Wine and Light Hors d'oeuvres
5:30 - 7 pm Panel Discussion & Conversation
Admission to the Salon is free. Donations are gratefully accepted.
THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
University of Connecticut
The School of Fine Arts
245 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT
www.benton.uconn.edu
www.facebook.com/benton.museum
For more information, contact: Diane Lewis at diane.lewis@uconn.edu