GLAADH Newsletter
Issue number 1, July 2001
The GLAADH team is
very pleased to present the first issue of our project newsletter. Many thanks
to those who have already had contact with us and begun to play a part in our
success, and for those new to the project, a very warm welcome.
The GLAADH newsletter
will be produced quarterly, giving updates on GLAADH activities and announcing
details of our project plans. This space will also serve as an announcement
board for events such as conferences and exhibitions of interest to the GLAADH
community, and as an introduction to other projects with similar aims.
Now in its first year
of three, GLAADH already has passed several milestones, and is keeping in view
a number of goals in the near future.
This month saw the completion of an overview of current practice in forty seven
departments of art, architecture and design history within higher education
institutions throughout the UK. During
visits to departments, valuable discussion was had about the project, and
comments and ideas on our aims were all gratefully received. We would like to thank all our colleagues
for their willingness and openness in discussing their present curriculum and
the possibilities for its development.
The overview certainly confirmed that current practice is more diverse
than was outlined in the last subject overview report and that tutors are
devising new ways for integrating non traditional areas of study into their
teaching. This is especially so if one
takes into account the fact that ‘historically less studied areas’ can also
include Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltic, even Ireland
and Scotland and the art of diaspora communities within Europe.
We hope to build on that rewarding and encouraging start at the GLAADH Workshop
on the 9th-10th November at the University of Sussex. The
workshop will bring together colleagues from all of our participating
institutions to focus on initiatives around cultural diversity and curriculum
change. Devised as a participatory
event, the workshop will present the opportunity to exchange information and
explore a wide range of alternatives for working with areas that have been
traditionally excluded from the core curriculum. Sets of short sessions will cover topics ranging from Chinese and
contemporary Latin American art to digital resources and visual culture. Further details will be circulated in the
next GLAADH newsletter.
For more details on the workshop and an overview of site visits, visit www.glaadh.ac.uk
Web updates
In April the GLAADH website was launched (www.glaadh.ac.uk).
Over the project’s three-year run, the site will offer an expanding set of
features to assist good practice in learning and teaching, including course
materials on visual aspects of Asia, Africa and the Americas, annotated
bibliographies, reviews, image gateways and essential links.
One feature of the
site is its interface to the GLAADH mentor network, a community of specialists
and helpful people participating in GLAADH willing to share their expertise.
If you are interested
in contributing to the site, in whatever small a way, please get in touch.
Conferences and events of interest to
GLAADH
From the 21st
July to 9th September, the first major solo exhibition of
Paris-based artist Shen Yuan will take place simultaneously at the Arnolfini,
Bristol, and Chisenhale Gallery, London. The show is part of the Institute of
International Visual Arts (inIVA) ‘Tourist’ season, launched in June, with a
newly redesigned website (www.iniva.org),
book and magazine launches, and artists’ talks.
Experiment
Experiência: Art in Brazil 1958 – 2000, 28 July - 21 October 2001. The
Museum of Modern Art Oxford presents sculpture, installation and film by
eighteen of Brazil's most influential and ground-breaking artists, capturing a
spirit of experimentation and dynamism in Brazilian Art since the late 1950s,
in the work of three generations of artists. See www.moma.org.uk for details.
Past and Present in
the Traditional Arts of South Asia: 2-day international conference at PRASADA,
De Montfort University, April 2002. Speakers from a variety of disciplines will
address a range of media including architecture, sculpture, textiles and
painting. For further information contact Dr Crispin Branfoot at
cbranfoot@dmu.ac.uk
Related Projects
There are several
other UK-based projects running alongside GLAADH that may be of interest to our
participants.
CASBAH
The Caribbean Studies
Black and Asian History Project (CASBAH) based at the Institute of Commonwealth
Studies, University of London, is an RSLP-funded demonstrator project begun in
January 2000 to identify and map national research resources relating to
Caribbean studies and the history of Black and Asian people in Britain. One of
the project’s aims is to build a one-stop resource for orientating researchers
to the most significant national collections, academic bodies and professional
interests associated with Caribbean, Black and Asian study areas. Find out more
about the project at http://www.casbah.ac.uk.
PRASADA
The Institute of
Practice, Research and Advancement in South Asian Design and Architecture
(PRASADA) is based at the Faculty of Art and Design, De Montfort University.
Devoted to the arts, crafts, architecture and settlement forms of the Indian
subcontinent, the institute combines academic study and creative practice to
explore historical traditions in South Asia and its diaspora. The institute’s
three complementary activities are research, architectural and design projects,
and postgraduate academic programmes (MA and PhD). For more details contact Dr
Adam Hardy, Director at De Montfort University, or visit
www.lsa.dmu.ac.uk/Research/prasada.html
Scholarships and awards
Entries for the
Association of Art Historians Student Essay Prize 2002 are now invited from UK
undergraduate and MA students of the History of Art and Visual Culture from
either practice-based or academic courses. The AAH is offering three prizes of
£200 each, plus book prizes. Winners will also be awarded free AAH student
membership for a year and have an abstract of the essay published in Bulletin.
There is no entry fee. Conditions apply, deadline 31st October 2001.
For more details visit www.aah.org.uk
Feedback
If you have any questions or comments about any aspect of GLAADH, please
contact Norma Rosso, Project Manager at N.Rosso@sussex.ac.uk.
Contributions to this newsletter should go to L.Wainwright@mdx.ac.uk.
Finally, a great many thanks to all those who have already lent their time and
support to GLAADH, and we look forward to meeting again in November.
The ‘Globalising Art, Architecture and Design History Project’ (GLAADH),
is a project of art and design historians at the University of Sussex, Open
University and Middlesex University funded by the Fund for Development of
Teaching and Learning supported by HEFCE.