COFAC Colloquium 54 – Friday, February 17
The College of Fine Arts and Communication will hold its COFAC Colloquium 54 on Friday, February 17, at 3:00pm on Zoom. A sabbatical talk and two reports from DEI awards will be presented.
The Zoom link may be found here (passcode Colloquium).
Stacy Spaulding
Associate Professor | Department of Mass Communication
Before Silent Spring: Field Guide to the Literary Journalism of Rachel Carson
With the 1962 publication of her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement. The book has justly earned Carson significant popular recognition. And while this acclaim is well deserved, it overshadows Carson’s earlier works. Spaulding’s sabbatical project asks: How did Carson’s journalism experience shape her later work? How does Carson’s work connect to the fields of literary journalism and ecocriticism? Though her emphasis on science renders her unique, Carson’s early works and freelancing career land her squarely within the genre of literary journalism. This project more fully explores Carson as a journalist, positioning her as a literary journalist and connecting her work – and the field of literary journalism studies – to the interdisciplinary field of ecocriticism. Like a naturalist’s field guide – a book for the identification of birds, flowers and minerals in their natural environment – this project classifies Carson’s career and works as a rightful inhabitant of the literary journalism ecosystem.
J. Susan Isaacs
Professor | Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education
Fragments, Layers, Combinations: Nanette Carter, Robert Straight, and Valerie Cassell Oliver
Abstraction offers artists the opportunity to find an individual, specific visual language that can address conceptual issues. The well-known curator Valerie Cassell Oliver, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, addressed her most recent exhibition The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse in a lecture open to the public. The project embraces Black Southern Hip Hop as a portal to the long trajectory of Black Southern aesthetic sensibilities, as well as how these sensibilities have manifested in the visual arts and music. She also wrote an essay on the work of Nanette Carter for the catalog for the exhibition and met with individual MFA students to discuss their work with her.
Jena Burchick
Assistant Professor | Department of Electronic Media & Film
Panavision Workshop and Career Discussion at “EMF Night In” Event
With the support of COFAC DEI funding, the Electronic Media & Film Department welcomed alumna, Maria Olney (20′), from the prestigious motion picture camera company, Panavision Cameras, to lead a demonstration and hands-on workshop followed by a career question and answer session. The event was open to all TU students with a promotional focus toward empowering female and gender nonconforming students in order to foster a safe environment to exchange ideas, practice networking skills and obtain personalized career mentorship.
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