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SUMMARY:Art in Focus: Tong Yin Yee Shung Gun\, Chinese Laundry\, 1899
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal discussion of this work from the exhibition Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy!\n\n\nJoin Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo for an informal discussion of this work from the exhibition Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy: Stafford Mantle Northcote\, Tong Yin Yee Shung Gun\, Chinese Laundry\, 1899\, oil on canvas. The New York Historical\, Gift of George A. Zabriskie\, 1946.255\n\n\nWant to join the virtual conversation at 1pm? Click here to register.\n\n\nAbout the Exhibition: Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy (organized by The New York Historical) explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity\, politics\, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies\, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries\, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage\, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman\, Harriet Tubman\, among other objects from The New York Historical’s collection. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated\, attacked\, protested\, altered\, and removed. For more information\, click here.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/art-in-focus-tong-yin-yee-shung-gun-chinese-laundry-1899/
LOCATION:Fairfield University Art Museum\, Bellarmine Hall Galleries\, 200 Barlow Road\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06824\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Artful Evening Series
DESCRIPTION:Get creative with us during one of our Artful Evening events!
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/the-artful-evening-series/
LOCATION:Fairfield University Art Museum\, Bellarmine Hall Galleries\, 200 Barlow Road\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06824\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Grappling with Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Join Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels\, PhD as she offers an introduction to key theories of heritage management through the lens of monuments.\n\n\nProfessor Lafrenz Samuels\, a leading expert in questions of how societies create and engage with questions of shared heritage\, will offer in this public lecture an introduction to key theories of heritage management through the lens of monuments. To bring these abstract questions to life\, she will explore a wide range of examples\, drawing from her fieldwork in Tunisia where modern peoples determine how they relate to a contested past from ancient Roman dominance to its modern republic\, recent studies of how climate change and biodiversity loss in Italy have affected landscapes designated as heritage sites\, and ongoing debates surrounding “what to do” about problematic monuments from Confederate monuments in Charlottesville to Fascist sites in Sicily.\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies invited speaker series\, and co-sponsored by the Departments of Visual and Performing Art and Anthropology/Sociology.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/lecture-grappling-with-heritage/
LOCATION:Dolan School of Business\, Event Hall\, 200 Barlow Road\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06824\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: We Were Here (2024)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the film We Were Here – The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe\, directed by Fred Kuwornu.\n\n\nJoin us at 5 p.m. on Wednesday\, October 22 in the Kelley Center for a screening of the film We Were Here – The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe\, directed by Fred Kuwornu. The film\, which was screened at the 2024 Venice Biennale\, “unveils the untold history of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe through iconic artworks. This multilingual film\, shot across Europe\, challenges the notion that all Blacks were slaves or servants. It reveals a diverse presence\, including princes\, ambassadors\, merchants\, and religious figures. Narrated from an Afro-European perspective\, it explores stories absent from traditional history books. The film interweaves art history with social narratives\, offering a fresh lens on European Renaissance and the complex tapestry of Black presence often overlooked in conventional historical accounts.”\n\n\nDirector Fred Kuwornu will join us for a discussion after the film. This event is co-sponsored by the Fairfield University Art Museum\, the Visual and Performing Arts department\, the Humanities Institute\, the Arts Institute\, the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures\, the Black Studies Program and the Italian Studies Program.\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Italian Studies Program\, Humanities Institute\, Visual & Performing Arts\, Arts Institute\, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures\, Black Studies
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/film-screening-we-were-here-2024/
LOCATION:Aloysius P. Kelley Center\, Loyola Drive\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06824\, United States
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SUMMARY:Faculty Roundtable: Incarceration in the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Join a group of Fairfield University faculty to discuss perspectives on the issues surrounding incarceration in the U.S.\n\n\nA group of Fairfield University professors and formerly incarcerated individuals will share their unique perspectives – disciplinary and personal – on the issues surrounding incarceration in the United States. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Stitching Time: Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project and Give Me Life: CPA Prison Arts Program (Walsh Gallery\, September 12 – December 13\, 2025).\n\n\nPanelists include Don Sawyer\, PhD (VP of Diversity\, Inclusion\, and Belonging); Gregg Caruso\, PhD (Director\, Waide Center for Applied Ethics); Sonya Huber (Professor\, English Creative Writing)\, and Kevin O’Brien\, S.J. (Vice Provost\, Executive Director\, Fairfield Bellarmine).\n\n\nAbout the Exhibition: Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary\, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art\, and accompanying recorded interviews\, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt collaboration. The exhibition focuses our attention on the quilt creators\, people often forgotten by society when discussing the history of the U.S. criminal justice system. Also on view in the gallery will be Give Me Life\, a selection of works from women artists presently or formerly incarcerated at York Correctional Institution\, a maximum security state prison in Niantic\, CT\, courtesy of Community Partners in Action (CPA). The CPA’s Prison Arts program was initiated in 1978 and is one of the longest-running projects of its kind in the United States. Founded in 1875\, CPA is celebrating 150 years of working within the criminal justice system. For more information\, click here.\n\n\n* This event is a part of Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment: The Promise and Paradox *
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/faculty-roundtable-incarceration-in-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Dolan School of Business\, Event Hall\, 200 Barlow Road\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06824\, United States
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SUMMARY:Meditation and Mindfulness in the Museum Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person meditation and mindfulness class in our Bellarmine Hall Galleries!
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/meditation-and-mindfulness-in-the-museum-series/
LOCATION:Fairfield University Art Museum\, Bellarmine Hall Galleries\, 200 Barlow Road\, Fairfield\, CT\, 06824\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual  Meditation and Mindfulness Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual mindfulness and meditation class from the comfort of your home!
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/virtual-meditation-and-mindfulness-series/
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