Series: The Clark

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Jonathan Flatley (Wayne State University / Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow) discusses liking trees. He argues that liking (as distinct from love) is a feeling capable of motivating collective opposition to the ongoing, massive, catastrophic destruction of forests. It makes that case through an examination of two distinct projects: Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory (2018) and Zoe Leonard’s photographs of trees that have grown into, around, or through fences.

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Jeremy Melius (Oxford University), the Michael Ann Holly Fellow in the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program, explores the aesthetic and ethical parameters of John Ruskin's watercolor practice.

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Rebecca Szantyr, former curatorial assistant in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, presents an overview of On the Horizon: Art and Atmosphere in the Nineteenth Century. Szantyr looks at the exhibition's major themes and moments and discusses how artists integrated scientific developments with pictorial invention as they depicted atmospheric effects.

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Clark-Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin presents an overview of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Grandin shares the rich history of the national library of France’s collections, and how that shaped the selection of works included in the Clark’s exhibition. The drawings on view reveal the medium’s new status as an autonomous and democratic instrument of creation and documentation in France in the eighteenth century.

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In this Research and Academic Program event, Futures Fellow Tsedaye Makonnen speaks with Nikki A. Greene (associate professor of art at Wellesley College) about how her multidisciplinary studio, curatorial, and research-based practice threads together her identity as a daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, a Black American woman, doula, and a mother to explore feminist and the transhistorical forced migration of Black communities across the globe.

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