Lectures, Films, Concerts

Lectures
Films
Concert
Taped Lecture

Join us for our THIRD THURSDAY LECTURE SERIES when we present talks on a range
of subjects by professional art dealers, collectors, curators and artists.

On the Road to Optimal Aging
Douglas Hyde Powell, Ed.D. ABPP
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Doug Powell, has written several books about cognitive aging. Clinical research is a passion. His is most recent book, The Aging Intellect, will be discussed with autographed copies available for sale. Powell has been a therapist, teacher and is a consultant in Psychology at McLean Hospital. Presently he holds an appointment as a Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He has also taught courses on the Aging Mind and Body at Harvard and Florida Gulf Coast University.

Thursday, September 29
7:00pm, Free

Materiality and Intimacy - A Conversation
Curator Deborah Davidson and artists from the fall drawing exhibit at Concord Art will have
a conversation about the relationship of contemporary drawing to new materials and how they expand the ideas of the work. They will also address the notion that drawing, as well
as all visual art practices, comes out of not being able to use words, and that the failure of language gives rise to these other languages. The discussion will focus on the works that are on view in the exhibit, Cannot Be Described in Words: Drawing Expanded.

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Thursday, October 27
7:00pm
Free

What’s Going on in This Picture? An Introduction to Visual Thinking Strategies
What happens when a group of people experience a work of art together? How do looking, thinking, and talking shape the way we learn? How do viewers of all ages learn to make the most of visual art? Join Visual Thinking Strategies’ co-founder Abigail Housen and New vts England Regional Director, Jacqueline Cossentino, for a hands-on exploration of this groundbreaking approach
to enhancing the experience of art. Learn more about how Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) was developed and is used in local schools and museums.

Abigail Housen is co-founder of Visual Understanding in Education and co-author of the VTS Curriculum. Housen has been involved in aesthetic research for 30 years and received her Ed.D from Harvard in 1983. She was professor of Art Education and Director of the Graduate Program at Massachusetts College of Art, and has served as consultant and evaluator to numerous museums and schools. Housen's research into the stages of aesthetic development provided the theoretical foundation for VTS. Her research has shown that, in addition to growth in aesthetic understanding, VTS supports the growth of creative and critical thinking skills, which transfer to other subject areas.

Jacqueline Cossentino has been involved with visual thinking since 1992, when she developed museum resources for teachers at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and directed a partnership between the Museum and the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School. She has served as a middle school and high school teacher in Chicago and Cambridge, principal of two Montessori schools, and professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds masters and doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and publishes and presents widely on the development of teaching expertise, ambitious approaches to school reform, and Montessori education.

Thursday, November 17
7:00pm
Free

wednesday night art FLICKS AT CONCORD ART!
Join us for a series of films revealing the life of artists, their work and their place in the world. Films are free of charge and open to all. For reservations please email education@concordart.org.

Exit Through the Gift Shop
This is an entertaining documentary about street art and the suspense of exit artists engaging in physically dangerous and "gray area" (illegal) acts of street painting. The elusive and enigmatic Banksy, one of the world’s most famous street artists, works with amateur filmmaker Thierry Guetta, a good-natured French guy who obsessively runs a video camera until he starts creating his own brand of street art. Not only is this film very entertaining but it raises the question of "What is art?"

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 28, 7pm

What About Style? Alex Katz: A Painter’s Painter
katz Learn about the work and career of renegade American artist Alex Katz through a close look at 20 Katz paintings, archival footage and an illuminating conversation with the artist himself. Also included is rare footage of Katz at work in his studios in Maine and Manhattan, as well as an exploration of his gargantuan painting The Black Brook.

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 12, 7pm

The Thinking Hand
This interesting film explores the ways in which drawings are expressi thinking_hand ons of an artist’s thoughts, created as initial ideas which are worked through and resulting in studies for finished works or works in their own right. The film shows the various techniques and functions of drawings, from copying, studying, preparing, bearing witness, and personal statement. The film features contemporary artist Richard Serra.

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 9, 7pm

Paul Klee: The Silence of the Angel
klee A well-crafted portrait of the visionary and prolific Swiss painter Paul Klee, whose 9,000 paintings altered classic concepts of color and composition. Drawing from Klee's journals, the film traces the arc of an artist once denounced by the Nazis as a degenerate. Klee's epitaph reads "I belong not only to this life," an allusion perhaps to the timelessness
of his art, splendidly arrayed in this film.

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 7, 7pm

Join us for an encore holiday chamber music concert. Get into the spirit of the holidays and enjoy beautiful music in an art-filled gallery.

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7:00-9:00pm
Free for Members
$10 Non Members

For reservations please call 978-369-2578 or email education@concordart.org

FROM THE CONCORD ART VIDEO VAULT: TAPED LECTURE

For an inspirational panel discussion that was presented in conjuntion with our From A Fixed Point exhibition, check out Concord Carlisle Community Television On-Demand. The panel discussion is listed under the "Entertainment" category.

Did you miss our lectures with Shaun Mcniff? If so, you can enjoy his presentation by viewing A Conversation with Shaun McNiff.