Program
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