1934: Artists Respond to the Great Depression

Join us for a lecture this Thursday by Dr. Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Broun’s presentation will focus on the Smithsonian American Art Museum traveling exhibition entitled 1934: A New Deal for Artists and on art created in Alabama under the WPA auspices. Her appearance is part of the 2010 “New Perspectives” series of programs on Alabama and the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s.

Thursday, September 2
4:00 pm
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Auditorium

“New Perspectives” is a project of the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and is co-sponsored by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. The project is funded by a generous grant from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the state agency of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Dr. Amalia Amaki returns for New Perspectives Lecture Series

The New Perspectives Lecture series continues on Tuesday, March 10^th, with Dr. Amalia Amaki. "Hale Aspacio Woodruff, the Academy, and the Paul R. Jones Collection" focuses on the life and work of artist and educator Hale Aspacio Woodruff, who played a significant role in educating and advancing the work of generations of African American artists.  Amaki will discuss his far-reaching influence and will also consider the connections between Woodruff's oeuvre and legacy and the Paul R. Jones Collection. Dr. Amaki will speak at 3 p.m. in the JCSM auditorium. The program is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and the Alabama Humanities Foundation. The series is co-sponsored by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Access and Community Initiatives unit of the Office of Diversity of Multicultural Affairs, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University, and the Department of Art in the College of Liberal Arts.

Winter 2009 Newsletter

The Winter 2009 Newsletter (PDF) is available on our website.

In this issue, you will find information about:

• Lewis Nordan and the Heartbreaking Laughter of Transcendence and Hope: A Symposium


• New Perspectives: Views from Alabama's Historically Black Colleges and Universities


• 2009 Draughon Seminars in State and Local History


• Daniel F. Breeden Eminent Scholar for the Humanities


• The Creek War and War of 1812 in the South: A Symposium


• and more!

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