Honoring_Rush

=Turning Points: Honoring Michael Rush and the Rose Art Museum Team=

Rose Art Museum May 12, 2009, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

The Rose Art Museum currently faces one of the most extraordinary, and puzzling, moments in its history. After months of uncertainty over the fate of the Museum itself, the Brandeis University administration has declared that the Museum will stay open as a public art museum. However, the fate of the collection and the curatorial and educational missions of the museum remain unclear. Under difficult circumstances, it would appear that three devoted and skilled Museum staff members -- Henry and Lois Foster Director Michael Rush, Director of Education Emily Mello, and Administrator Jay Knox -- are leaving the institution. We gather to celebrate and reflect upon the extraordinary accomplishments of the Rose Art Museum team under the leadership of Michael Rush, including a series of distinguished exhibitions, public programs, and publications. We also gather to discuss the future of the Museum; how can we work together to honor and carry on the remarkable legacies associated with this remarkable, precious institution?


 * //2:00-2:05. Welcomes: Jonathan Lee and Meryl Rose(Rose Art Museum Board of Overseers) and Ellen Schattschneider (Anthropology)

Remembering: Mildred Lee and Igor Zhukovsky

2:05-2:50 pm. Theorizing Vision in the Galleries. Exhibitions, Accessions and Intellectual Engagements.//** //[Jane Farver, Margaret Evangeline, Steve Miller, Mark Auslander, Andreas Teuber, Michael Rush]//


 * //2:50-3:35. Critical Pedagogies: Educational programming and related forms of learning in and around the Museum.//** //[Dirck Roosevelt, Joe Wardwell, Pennie Taylor,// //Ramie Targoff,// //Mary Campbell, ,// //Emily Mello]//


 * //3:35 -3:50 Interns and Internships//** //(Nancy Scott; Alison Young, Starr Intern; Sonja Gandert, Warner Intern, Yael Rooks-Rapport, Education Intern, and Aubrey Knox, Registrarial Intern in conversation with Emily Mello and Valerie Wright)//


 * //3:50- 4:00 Honoring the Museum's Benefactors (Ellen Schattschneider; the Rose Board of Overseers)

4:00-4:20. Comments and Reflections (all are invited to comment)

4:20-4:30. Remarks by Rose Art Museum staff members (Michael Rush, Emily Mello, Roy Dawes, Valerie Wright, Jay Knox)

4:30 p.m. Reception. (On patio or in the Lee Gallery)//**

Speakers include:
 * Jane Farver, Director, MIT List Visual Arts Center
 * Margaret Evangeline (artist)
 * Steve Miller (artist)
 * Ellen Schattschneider (faculty, Anthropology)
 * Joe Wardwell (faculty, Fine Arts)
 * Mary Baine Campbell (faculty, English)
 * Dirck Roosevelt (faculty, Education)
 * Andreas Teuber (faculty, Philosophy)
 * Mark Auslander (faculty, Anthroplogy)
 * Nancy Scott (faculty, Fine Arts)
 * Ramie Targoff (faculty, English)
 * Pennie Taylor (graduate student, Cultural Production)
 * //Alison Young, Starr Intern//
 * //Sonja Gandert, Warner Intern//
 * //Yael Rooks-Rapport, Education Intern//
 * //Aubrey Knox, Registrarial Intern//

//This symposium is organized by concerned faculty and students in collaboration with the Rose Art Museum Board of Overseers//

Contact: Professor Ellen Schattschneider. eschatt@brandeis.edu (781) 736-2219