Friday, October 5, 2018

8:15-9AM:

Registration and light breakfast

9-9:30AM:

Welcome

Erika Piola, Associate Curator, Prints and Photographs and Director, Visual Culture Program, Library Company of Philadelphia

Sarah Weatherwax, Curator, Prints and Photographs and Co-Curator, William Birch, Ingenious Artist, Library Company of Philadelphia

Dr. Michael Barsanti, Edwin Wolf 2nd Director, Library Company of Philadelphia

9:30-10:30AM:

Keynote Address

Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-11:45AM:

Session 1: The Birch Network and Diaspora

Chair: Erika Piola, Library Company of Philadelphia

William Birch, Painter-Architect

William L. Coleman, Newark Museum

Rendering the American Landscape: William Birch, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and the British Watercolor Diaspora

Julia A. Sienkewicz, Roanoke College

11:45AM-1:00PM:

Lunch Break

1:00-2:30PM:

Session 2: The Urban Aesthetic in Popular Art

Chair: Jeffrey Cohen, Bryn Mawr College

What William Birch Left Out: The Visual Culture of Disability in Early America

Nicole Belolan, Rutgers University-Camden

James Kidder’s Market: Urban Views and the Art of Commerce

Whitney Martinko, Villanova University

Nicolino Calyo’s Wider View: Landscapes of Innovation

Rebecca Szantyr, Brown University

2:30-3:00PM:

Break

3:00-4:30PM:

Session 3: Novelty in Graphic Art: Horizontoriums, Miniature Photos, and Grangerizing 

Chair: Rachel D’Agostino, Library Company of Philadelphia

Distorting Views of Philadelphia: Shifting Perspectives in “A Curious Horizontorium”

Laura Turner Igoe, Barnes Foundation

Tiny Mysteries: Decoding 19th-Century Microscopic Photographs from Philadelphia’s Langenheim Brothers

Daniel Seth Kraus and Byron Wolfe, Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Taking a Page from Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists: 19th-Century Print Media and the Grangerization of American Art History

Erin Pauwels, Tyler School of Art, Temple University

4:30-5PM

Final Remarks

Elizabeth Milroy, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University

5-7PM:

Reception