Looking at Jazz: America\u27s Art Form

Flier listing schedule for the Looking at Jazz America’s Art Form Film Series, held March 7-April 5 and April 13-14, 2007 during the Jacksonville Jazz Festival.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/jacksonville_jazz_text/1017/thumbnail.jp

Protecting America\u27s Cultural and Historical Patrimony

This Article suggests the procedures which the authors believe would effectively regulate the legal export of art works and be consistent with other foreign trade policies, while not unduly restricting free trade nor discouraging cultural exchange

College Faculty in the News: July 25, 2019

Airports in Oakland CA and Newark NJ were recent topics of discussion by Professor Janet Bednarek in national media outlets. Follow these and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty

UD in the news July 12-19

Faculty shared their research and expertise with The Conversation, CNN.com, CTV in Canada, Al Jazeera English, Childhood Obesity News and Women\u27s Agenda. Spectrum News in Ohio, central Florida and North Carolina featured an invention by engineering student Spencer Janning that\u27s making life easier for a child with cerebral palsy

UD in the news Aug. 17-31

UD President Eric Spina wrote an op-ed about easing transfers between two- and four-year colleges for Education Dive. Kristen Krupa-Comfort\u27s research was the subject of a Conversation video of the day. Rob Franek, editor-in-chief at The Princeton Review, listed the University of Dayton among his \u27hidden gems\u27 in a segment on CNBC

Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915\u3c/i\u3e by Elizabeth Hutchinson

Elizabeth Hutchinson\u27s The Indian Craze examines the trend that was not merely fad or fancy but a significant artistic phenomenon with lasting effects on both American art history and U.S. Indian policy. Although the origin of Native American art as art is commonly associated with the Santa Fe movement of the 1920s and 1930s, Hutchinson declares that this cross-cultural conversation, fueled by progressive primitivism, began at least two decades earlier. Enhanced by historical images and informed by Janet C. Berlo\u27s anthology, The Early Years of Native American Art History (1992), The Indian Craze revives a politically charged and artistically productive era, while challenging the binarism modern/antimodern art. Hutchinson begins by methodically unpacking the Indian corner, explaining that it was not only Indian traders who facilitated the craze, but department stores that sold Indian-made and Indian-inspired products to middle-class Americans. The following four chapters focus on artists, educators, and critics who found inspiration in Native American art forms and solace in progressive primitivism

The Ivory Tower is Burning: Colonialism, Neutrality, and the Future of America\u27s Art Museums

In this essay, I examine and problematize the myth of neutrality in America’s art museums by examining the colonialist, patriarchal, and capitalist foundations of museums in American culture, framing contemporary examples of museum neutrality—or the social and political detachment of many museums from the communities and issues they claim to speak to—within these historical contexts. Referring to the works of museum educators, scholars, and activists, this essay seeks to build on the existing commentary about the positionality and purpose of museums in their communities, using protest as a means of analyzing institutional capacity for change. Drawing on a number of contemporary examples, including the ongoing Strike MoMA efforts, I engage an open-ended discussion of how museums might reimagine themselves as institutions unbound from the colonial, patriarchal and capitalist values on which so many were founded