Chowder Hour: Spring 2011
| Date and Time | Presenter and Department | Topic | Chefs |
| March 24, 11:30AM | Marjorie Welish, artist, poet, critic, and visiting scholar | "Art Criticism: The Care and Feeding Of" | Chili, cornbread, and brownies will be provided by the Denison Museum staff |
| April 14, 11:30AM | Jonathan Moore, Department of Religion | "We Are Just Like Them: Muslim Self-Representation in American Children's Literature" | To be announced |
Ishani Banerji, Gilpatrick Fellow 2005-2006, prepares an Indian meal for a Chowder Hour in Spring 2005.
Reservations are required for all Chowder Hours and can be made two weeks in advance of the event by calling x6573 or e-mailing sunkle.
Because we are offering only three Chowder Hours this term, we ask that you sign up for only one. The luncheons take place in Gilpatrick House.
The
Gilpatrick Center will sponsor a Chowder Hour on Thursday, March 24th,
at 11:30 a.m. Marjorie Welish, visiting scholar, poet, artist, and art
critic, will speak on her experiences as an art critic. The meal will
be prepared by members of the staff from the Denison Museum. It will
include chili (both meat and vegetarian), cornbread and brownies.
Marjorie
Welish, an artist, poet and critic, received her M.F.A. degree from
Vermont College, Norwich University. She has just completed a Fulbright
Senior Specialist Fellowship teaching at the University of Frankfurt,
in Germany and Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. This past summer
she was an artist-in-residence at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago to work toward her exhibition at Inverleith House, Edinburgh,
in 2011.
Her
writing on art has appeared in Art in America, Art Monthly,
Bomb, Partisan Review, Salmagundi, and Textual
Practice, as well as in the anthology The Studio Reader (University
of Chicago Press). A collection of her art criticism is entitled, Signifying
Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Of
the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Foundation,
2003) consists of papers given at a conference on her writing and art
at the University of Pennsylvania. Coffee House Press has published her
most recent collections of poetry, including Word Group and Isle
of the Signatories. She regularly teaches at Brooklyn College,
Columbia University and Pratt Institute.