Lectures/Symposia
All lectures and symposia are held in the Cantor Arts Center auditorium and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
| Also see the Art Focus Lecture Series, which offers visitors an opportunity to expand their knowledge of art through lectures, seminars, and workshops with faculty, curators, art experts, and artists. |
Spotlight on Art
Second Friday of each month (October–May), 2 pm
Graduate students in the Department of Art and Art History give gallery talks on selected works of art over the academic year.
March 9: Adam Katseff, MFA candidate, and George Philip LeBourdais, PhD candidate, discuss Walker Evans
April 13: Barbara Greene, PhD candidate
May 11: Dawn Weleski, MFA candidate
Stanford Lively Arts presents Jazz at the Cantor Arts Center
Thursday, February 16, noon
Wednesday, April 4, noon
This lunchtime jazz lecture and demonstration, featuring Loren Schoenberg, director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, highlights the rich cross-fertilization between American jazz and music from Latin America and the Caribbean. The program is supported in part by the Joan and John Jay Corley Fund for Performance.
Book discussion: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Saturday, February 25, 1 pm
Gavin Jones, chair of Stanford's English department and author of American Hungers, leads a discussion on the landmark collaboration of James Agee and Walker Evans in documenting Depression-era tenant farming in rural Alabama. Acquaintance with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is requested; the book is available in the Cantor Arts Center Bookshop.
Lecture by Rafael Campo
Thursday, March 1, 6:30 pm
The Harvard Medical School physician, award-winning poet, and current writer-in-residence at the Stanford Humanities Center will read from his work. Co-hosted by the Arts, Humanities, and Medicine Program at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Campo's residency is jointly sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts.
Faculty Choice: Doree Allen
Voices in the Gallery: Putting Art into Words at the Cantor Arts Center
Thursday, April 26, 7–10 pm
Art museums are “imaginative precincts” in which writers contemplate the vibrant silence of color, line, and form to find new subjects and to awaken the words, rhythms, sound, and syntax of their own linguistic medium. Voices in the Gallery invites Stanford students to explore the creative alchemy between the verbal and visual arts by choosing and writing about a work in the Center’s collection. Stanford’s Oral Communication Program and departments across campus will mark National Poetry Month in April. Events culminate in this celebration of the “sister arts” with readings and discussions in the galleries on April 26.
Bobbie and Mike Wilsey Distinguished Lecture for 2012
Pulitzer Prize Winning New York Times Critic Holland Cotter Presents the 2012 Wilsey Lecture
Thursday, May 17, 6 pm
Cotter will speak on the impact and influences of non-western art in the American art museum. Presented in Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building, admission is free, with open seating.
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