Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico (May 11-15) SOLD OUT Waitlist Available
SOLD OUT (Waitlist Available)
Join the University of Virginia’s Lifetime Learning program May 11-15, 2024, as we host distinguished Professors Elizabeth Turner, Art History, and Stephen B. Cushman, Department of English, on an inspiring learning experience of Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico. Delve into O’Keeffe’s creative process and see how the many facets of New Mexico impacted her life and her artistic work.
This 4-day seminar will take place in beautiful Santa Fe, known as the “City Different” in the Land of Enchantment—unique in the nation for its combination of a long and fascinating history, a layered culture from ancient to modern, and a culinary cornucopia of indigenous food styles. On day trips to Taos and O’Keeffe’s home and studio in Abiquiu, experience the curvaceous adobe-style architecture and undulating landforms that create the chiaroscuro light and shadow so adored by O’Keeffe.
You will enjoy private visits to noteworthy O’Keeffe sites, delectable New Mexican cuisine, and lectures by our esteemed faculty, who will provide the intellectual and historical framework for understanding the complexity of O’Keeffe’s sense of place and artistic genius.
FACULTY SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Hutton Turner, University Professor of Art History, Department of Art, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Elizabeth Hutton Turner is University Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. Formerly a senior curator at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, she organized many exhibitions, including Calder/Miro: A New Space for the Imagination (2004), “Klee and America” (2006), and “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction” (2009).
Since joining the faculty at UVA, she has co-curated exhibitions, including Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor at the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2018-2019), and “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle,” at the Peabody Essex Museum, and other venues including the Metropolitan Museum and the Seattle Art Museum (2020-2021). Her current projects include a book, The Unexpected Georgia O’Keeffe in Charlottesville, and a study of Alexander Calder in Connecticut. Currently, Turner is collaborating with Paul Wagner Films on a documentary on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, scheduled for release in the spring of 2024.
Stephen Cushman, Robert C. Taylor Professor, Department of English, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Stephen Cushman is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English, Department of English at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over 40 years. With a B.A. from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Yale, he has brought to UVA students his commitment to discussing American and environmental writing and the American Civil War era. His teaching has been honored with an All-University Teaching Award, the first Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professorship, and a State Council of Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award.
A poet as well as a scholar, he has published twelve books, most recently The Generals’ Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) and Keep the Feast: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2022).
Other publications include: Hothead (LSU, 2018), The Red List (LSU, 2014), Riffraff (LSU, 2011), Heart Island (David Robert Books, 2006), Cussing Lesson (LSU, 2002), and Blue Pajamas (LSU, 1998), as well as two books of criticism, Fictions of Form in American Poetry (Princeton, 1993) and William Carlos Williams and the Meanings of Measure (Yale, 1985), and three books about the Civil War, The Generals’ Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today (UNC, 2021), Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (UNC, 2014) and Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (UVA, 1999). He is the general editor of the fourth edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012).
For more about Stephen Cushman, visit https://english.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/sbc9g or https://stephencushman.com/
REGISTRATION
Cost
Land package $2,895 (double occupancy) + $795 (Single supplement)
Cancellation/Refund Policy
Cancellation by participant must be made in writing to ISDI and is effective only upon acknowledged receipt by ISDI. See policy to learn more.