Conference
Saturday, October 28, 2017, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Cornell University
114 Central Ave.
Ithaca, NY
SCHEDULE
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and registration
MORNING SESSION
10:00 a.m.
Welcome and opening remarks
Stephanie Wiles, The Richard J. Schwartz Director, and
Andrew C. Weislogel, Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator of Earlier European and American Art,
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
10:15 a.m.
Keynote presentation
Erik Hinterding, Curator of Prints, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
“Rembrandt’s Paper: State of the research and where we go from here”
11:15 a.m.
Andrew C. Weislogel and
C. Richard Johnson, Jr., Jacobs Fellow in Computational Arts and Humanities, Cornell Tech/
Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Engineering, Cornell University, with students
“The Watermark Identification in Rembrandt’s Etchings (WIRE) Project: Student Engagement, Initial Discoveries, and Future Directions”
12:00 p.m.
Response to morning session, followed by Q&A
Stephanie S. Dickey, Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Queen’s University
12:30 p.m.
Lunch on your own, and opportunities to visit the exhibition and prints made in response by students of Professors Gregory Page and Elisabeth Meyer
IN THE EXHIBITION GALLERY
1:30 p.m.
Gregory Page, Associate Professor of Print Media and Drawing, Cornell University,
in conversation with Cathy Klimaszewski, Associate Director and the
Harriett Ames Charitable Trust Curator of Education, Johnson Museum
“Reflections of Rembrandt Across Printmaking Media”
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00 p.m.
Introductory remarks
Lisa Pincus, Visiting Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University
2:15 p.m.
Keynote presentation
Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair, Vassar College
“In Love with Line: Tales of Teaching with Rembrandt”
3:15 p.m.
Panel: “Teaching Rembrandt prints, in and out of the Museum”
Moderator
Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Curator of European and American Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Panelists
Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Rembrandt’s Prints at the Met”
Margaret Holben Ellis, Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“Computational Connoisseurship of Rembrandt’s Prints”
Elizabeth Nogrady, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
“Conversation Starter: Teaching Rembrandt prints outside the art history classroom”
4:15 p.m.
Opportunity to explore the exhibition and student installation (open to symposium participants until 6:00 p.m.)
Registration is free; contact Elizabeth Saggese at eas8@cornell.edu or 607 254-4642.
This symposium will be livestreamed at live.alumni.cornell.edu