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Harvard Graduate School of Education partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for:

• Conversation with Edmund Barry Gaither, (1 hour, 24 minutes) a lecture by Edmund Gaither, director, Center Afro-American Artists and co-founder of the African American Museum Association, discusses his experiences as an art historian, lecturer, writer, and advocate for African American artists. [April 10, 2002]
• Paradigm Spinning: Artists as Agents of Social Change, (1 hour, 25 minutes) a lecture by Suzi Gablick, artist, art critic, cultural philosopher, who discusses the role that both art and the artist play in the contemporary world, and how their work is vital to society and to social change. [March 14, 2001]

High Museum of Art partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for:

• Cecilia Beaux and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (34 minutes) The High Museum presents an evening with Akela Reason, as she explores Cecilia Beaux's portrait of Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, or Edith Minturn. Akela Reason is, lecturer, art history, GA State University. [August 2, 2007]
• Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art with discussion by Susan Crawley, curator, High Museum of Art, Carol Crown, assoc professor, art history, U Memphis, Charles Russell, assoc director, Rutgers Institute and Charles Reagan Wilson, director, Center for Southern Culture. (1 hour, 24 minutes) The High Museum's Susan Crawley, associate curator of folk art, moderates a panel discussion inspired by Carol Crown and Charles Russell's recent publication Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art. Noted scholars discuss self-taught art in a cultural context. [April 12, 2007]
• American Artists and the Louvre: Morse Gallery, (2 hours, 10 minutes) American Artists and the Louvre: Morse Gallery. Lectures and panel discussion by Paul Staiti, professor, art history, Mount Holyoke College, Jean-Philippe Antoine, senior fellow, Terra Foundation, Olivier Meslay, curator, Musee du Louvre, Sylvia Yount, curator, American art, High Art Museum. Paul Staiti and Jean-Philippe Antoine discuss early nineteenth-century American artists who sought training in Paris and the artistic practice of copying. (Lecture contributed by WABE/AFN) [February 24, 2007]
• Winslow Homer's Watercolors: Markers in a Life Journey, (52 minutes) a lecture by Elizabeth Johns, professor emerita, art history, UPenn. in which Dr. Johns discusses the relationship of Homer's watercolors and some of his oils to his life's journey. (Lecture contributed by WABE/AFN) [May 11, 2006]
• A Conversation with Chuck Close in which internationally recognized artist Chuck Close talks with Jeffrey D. Grove, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art about working with photographs, painting from the grid, and collaboration with master printers and papermakers. Close reflects on his forty year career and discusses his continuously innovative approach to portraiture with particular emphasis on his self portraits.[March 24, 2006]

The Hirshhorn Museum Library, founded in 1969, is administered by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL). It is a research collection devoted to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, video, and emerging art forms. the Library's web page contains a video clip from an Ed Ruscha lecture filmed June 29, 2000.

The History Channel via truveo.com offers a 1m:41s clip "Edward Steichen on photography as an art form". Truveo says: "Edward Steichen, born in Luxembourg on March 27, 1879, is credited with transforming photography into a recognized art form. Brought up in Michigan and Wisconsin, Steichen was trained as a commercial lithographer and painter, but his true interest lay in photography. In 1902, Alfred Stieglitz, the best-known American photographer of the day, invited him to New York to found Photo-Secession, an organization dedicated to promoting photography as a fine art. Steichen and Stieglitz were largely successful in winning respect for their medium and also promoted other European modern art at their influential gallery. During World War I, Steichen was a photographer for the U.S. Army and innovated aerial photography. By the war's end, he had become a dedicated proponent of realism, and he burned all his paintings as confirmation of his confidence in photography's ability to achieve that end. Between the wars, he was New York's leading portrait photographer, and his pictures from that period now form a vital record of American culture. In 1948, he began a fifteen-year tenure as director of the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He died in 1973".

American art from the Howard University Collection is part of a national touring exhibition. This major exhibition and conservation project was a three-year collaborative effort by a network of cultural institutions. It was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and The Studio Museum of Harlem, in association with the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Howard University, and five other Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Howard Universsity Libraries presents videos in which Tritobia Benjamin, Ph.D. discusses African Amerian artists including Edward M Bannister, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Elizabeth Catlett and many others.

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TFAO catalogues:

• American Art History: A Geographic Tour a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.
• Audio online a catalogue of online streaming audio recordings
• Books general reference books published on paper
• Collections of Historic American Art notable private collections
• Distinguished Artists over 2,600 historic American painters, sculptors and photographers, with references to Resource Library articles and essays, plus links to other sites
• Illustrated audio online streaming online narrated slide shows
• Interactive media CD-ROM format
• Magazines a comprehensive list of paper-published magazines and journals
• Online Articles and Essays hundreds of substantive texts published outside of Resource Library
• Online Video on Demand a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers
• Topics in American Representational Art links to dozens of topics
• Videos -DVD/VHS an authoritative guide to videos in VHS and DVD format

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