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		MISSION & COLLECTION RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PUBLICATIONS TRIPS EVENTS
		SYMPOSIA
		*2008*
		*The Arts of South America, 1492-1850* Organized by Donna Pierce Sponsored by the Mayer Center and the Denver Art Museum November 7-8, 2008 Sharp Auditorium (Hamilton Building), Denver Art Museum CLICK HERE FOR A .PDF OF THE REGISTRATION BROCHURE. Speakers: Luisa Elena Alcala (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) Cult Images in South America Michael Brown (Denver Art Museum) D.C. Stapleton: Collecting Spanish Colonial Art from Quito to Bogota during the Gilded Age Tom Cummins (Harvard University) Andean Colonial Art in the Early Seventeenth Century Sabine MacCormack (Notre Dame) The Poetics of Representation in Early Colonial Peru Jorge Rivas (Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas) The Unintentional Catalogue of Spanish Colonial Furniture: Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno Nuno Senos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Buildings at War: Franciscan Architecture in Colonial Brazil Susan Verdi Webster (College of William and Mary) Native Artisans and the Construction of Colonial Quito Schedule and details tba. Please email mayercenter@denverartmuseum.org if you would like to receive notification of this event when the details become available.
		*2007*
		*Costa Rica and the Pre-Columbian World: Honoring the Contributions of Frederick Mayer* Organized by Margaret Young-Sánchez Sponsored by the Mayer Center and the Denver Art Museum November 10, 2007 9AM-5PM Sharp Auditorium (Hamilton Building), Denver Art Museum Join us after the lectures for a cocktail reception and viewing of the Pre-Columbian galleries. CLICK HERE FOR A .PDF OF THE REGISTRATION BROCHURE. This year’s symposium is organized to pay tribute to Frederick Mayer - his passion for Pre-Columbian art and his dedication to promoting scholarship in the field. He and his wife Jan assembled an encyclopedic collection of Costa Rican art which they generously gifted to the Denver Art Museum. Speakers: Margaret Young-Sánchez (Denver Art Museum) Introduction: Honoring the Contributions of Frederick Mayer Michael Coe (Yale University) The Remembrance of Things Past: A Personal Perspective on New World Archaeology John Hoopes (University of Kansas) Ancient Costa Rica and the Chibchan World Fred Lange (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Ronald Bishop (Smithsonian Institution) The Greater Nicoya Ceramic Project: The Marriage of Art History and Archaeology David Mora Marin (University of North Carolina) A Brief History of the Middle American Jade Exchange Network: The Costa Rica/Maya Interaction Michael Snarskis (Independent Archaeologist/Consultant, Costa Rica) Distribution of Scientifically Excavated Gold Artifacts and Regional Symbolism Jane Day (Independent Scholar, Denver) Reflections of Shamanism in Ancient Costa Rican Art Symposium proceedings to be published in 2009.
		*2006*
		*Asia and Spanish America: Trans-Pacific Artistic and Cultural Exchange, 1500-1850* Organized by Donna Pierce & Ronald Otsuka, DAM Curator of Asian Art November 3-4, 2006 Denver Art Museum & Denver Athletic Club Sponsored by Mayer Center, the Asian Art Department Jackson Endowment and the Denver Art Museum. During the 1500s, Spain established an extensive trade connection with Asia from the Philippines through Spanish America. Some goods were shipped on to Spain, but others remained in the Americas and inspired local artists in many media. Asians immigrated to the Americas and major industries for the production of export goods developed throughout Asia. The symposium brought together a distinguished interdisciplinary, international group of scholars in Asian and Spanish Colonial arts. It explored new fields of scholarship that focused on multicultural and global studies. Speakers: Gauvin Bailey (Boston College) The Influence of Asian Art in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas Clara Bargellini (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico) Asia at the Missions of Northern New Spain Roxanna M. Brown (Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, Bangkok University, Thailand) Chinese Gilt Porcelain to the New World Gustavo Curiel (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico) The Perception of the Other and the Language of "Chinese Mimicry" in the Decorative Arts of New Spain Abby Sue Fisher (Keweenaw National Historic Park, Michigan) Trade Textiles: Asia and New Spain Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown University) Asian Diaspora in Spanish America George Kuwayama (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Chinese Porcelain in Viceroyalty of Peru Meiko Nagashima (Kyoto National Museum) Japanese Lacquers Exported to Spanish America and Spain Sonia Ocaña (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico) Enconchado Frames: The Use of Japanese Ornamental Models in New Spanish Painting Jorge Rivas (Fundación Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela) Of Luxury and Fantasy: The Influence of Asia on the Furniture of Viceregal Spanish America Etsuko Rodríguez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Early Manila Galleon Trade: Merchants’ Network and the Market in 16th and 17th Century Mexico Sofia Sanabrais (New York University) The Globalization of Taste: Japanese and New Spanish Folding Screens Mari Takamatsu (New York University) Nanban - Japanese Screen Paintings Marjorie Trusted (Victoria & Albert Museum, London) Propaganda and Luxury: Small-Scale Baroque Sculptures in Viceregal America Symposium proceedings to be published in 2008.
		*2005*
		Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca Organized by Margaret Young-Sánchez January 14-15, 2005 Denver Art Museum & Denver Public Library Sponsored by Mayer Center and the Denver Art Museum. A companion symposium to an exhibition of the same name at the Denver Art Museum, October 2004 - January 2005. Speakers: Leonardo Benitez (University of Pennsylvania) Time and Calendrics at Tiwanaku Susan Bergh (Cleveland Museum of Art) Expressions of Dualism in Middle Horizon Tapestry Tunics James Blackmon (Independent Scholar) Gods and Ancestors, Ritual and Sacred Space: Early Tiwanaku as Seen Through the Gateway Tunic Christiane Clados (Free University of Berlin) Tiwanaku Iconography: Some New Aspects William J. Conklin (Field Museum and Textile Museum) The Iconic Dimension in Tiwanaku Art Anita Cook (Catholic University of America) Painting Gender and Cosmos During the Middle Horizon Georgia DeHavenon (Brooklyn Museum) The Power of an Icon: References to the Gateway of the Sun from the 19th Century to the Present Paul S. Goldstein (UC, San Diego) A Different Kind of Ancient State: New Research on Tiwanaku Expansion John W. Hoopes (University of Kansas) Tiwanaku Origin Myths and Inca Kingship Ritual William H. Isbell (SUNY, Binghamton) and Patricia J. Knobloch (Institute of Andean Studies) Iconography and Redefinition: The Tiwanaku Art Styles Jean-Pierre Protzen (UC, Berkeley) A Vision of Tiwanaku Architecture Alexi Vranich (University of Pennsylvania) Monumental Dynamics at Tiwanaku Patrick Ryan Williams and Donna Nash (Field Museum) Beer and Identity in the Middle Horizon Borderlands Thomas Zuidema (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) Tiwanaku Calendar and Iconography Symposium proceedings to be published in 2008.
		*2004*
		*Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521 - 1821* Organized by Donna Pierce April 17-18, 2004 Denver Art Museum Sponsored by Mayer Center, the Cooke-Daniels Memorial Lecture Fund and the Denver Art Museum. A companion symposium to an exhibition of the same name at the Denver Art Museum, April - August 2004, and the Meadows Museum of Art at Southern Methodist University, September - October 2004. Speakers: Clara Bargellini (UNAM, Mexico City) Enconchado Paintings of New Spain: Invention and Originality in Images of the Virgin of Guadalupe Jonathan Brown (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) Painting of New Spain Within the Context of Spanish Painting Gustavo Curiel (UNAM, Mexico City) Painted Folding Screens and Asian Influence in New Spain Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo (UNAM, Mexico City) Portraits of Moctezuma Elena Estrada de Gerlero (UNAM, Mexico City) Aztec Feather Painting Traditions in the Colonial Period Ana Paulina Gamez (Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City) Clothing and Accessories in Colonial Portraits Ilona Katzew (LA County Museum of Art) Casta Paintings in Mexico Elizabeth Perry (Framingham State College) Painted Nuns' Badges and Portraits Rogelio Ruiz Gomar (UNAM, Mexico City) The Art and Artists of New Spain, 1521-1650 The Art and Artists of New Spain, 1650-1821 Alessandra Russo (L'Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) Pre-Columbian Cartography Techniques in Early Colonial Mexico The symposium addressed topics discussed in the exhibition publication by the same name. Distributed by the University of Texas Press and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.5035).
		*2002*
		*New World Art at the Denver Art Museum* Organized by Donna Pierce and Margaret Young-Sánchez March 2-3, 2002 Denver Art Museum Sponsored by Mayer Center, the Cooke-Daniels Memorial Lecture Fund and the Denver Art Museum. The 2002 symposium focused on the Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Collections of the Denver Art Museum. Distinguished scholars presented lectures relevant to important objects in the collection. Speakers: Warwick Bray (University of London) Panamanian gold work Carolyn Dean (UC, Santa Cruz) Inca imagery in Peruvian colonial painting Samuel Edgerton (Williams College) Mission architecture in colonial Mexico Cristina Esteras Martin (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Colonial silver and gold work of Latin America Maria Concepcion Garcia Saiz (Museo de America, Madrid) Casta paintings in colonial Mexico and Peru Juana Gutierrez Haces (UNAM, Mexico City) Paintings by Cristobal de Villalpando Alexandra Kennedy (University of Cuenca, Ecuador) Colonial sculpture of Ecuador Carol Mackey (Cal. State, Northridge) and Joanne Pillsbury (Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia) Chimu silver work Jeanette Peterson (UC, Santa Barbara) Virgin of Guadalupe in colonial Mexico Patricia Sarro (Youngstown State University) Teotihuacan stone sculpture Rebecca Stone-Miller (Emory University) Costa Rican art Margaret Young-Sanchez (Denver Art Museum) Tiwanaku art Marc Zender (University of Calgary) Maya inscriptions *Exploring New World Imagery: Spanish Colonial Papers from the 2002 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum, Volume I*, was published in 2005. Distributed by the University of Texas Press and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.5035), Volume II, the Pre-Columbian symposium proceedings, is forthcoming.
		*2001*
		*Andean Textile Traditions* Organized by Margaret Young-Sánchez January 27-28, 2001 Denver Art Museum & Denver Public Library Sponsored by Mayer Center and the Denver Art Museum. Speakers: Ran Boytner (Getty Conservation Institute and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) Andean Textile Dyes: An Intimate View of Cultural Preferences and Choices Ed Franquemont (Institute of Andean Studies) Jazz: An Andean Sense of Symmetry Andrea M. Heckman (University of New Mexico) Contemporary Andean Textiles as Cultural Communication in Ausangate, Peru Marianne Hogue (Virginia Commonwealth University) Cosmology in Inca Tunics and Tectonics Teresa A. Knutsen (Art Conservation Center at the University of Denver) Conservation Treatments for pre-Columbian Textiles Amy Oakland-Rodman (UC Santa Barbara) Late Wari and Lambayeque Textiles at El Brujo, Chicama Valley, Peru Joanne Pillsbury (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia) Inka Unku: Strategy and Design in Colonial Peru Jane W. Rehl (Emory University) Weaving Principles for Life: Discontinuous Warp and Weft Textiles of Ancient Peru Lisa Tulchin (Independent Scholar) Design and Visual Perception in Wari Tapestry Tunics Margaret Young-Sánchez (Denver Art Museum) Four-Part Headcloths from Middle Horizon Central Coast Peru *Andean Textile Traditions*, was published in 2006. Distributed by the University of Texas Press and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.5035).