EVENTS

Winter Season Premiere Party
Thursday, February 25
5:30 pm Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk: Landscape and Memory
Professors Bernie Rhie and Olga Shevchenko with Deputy Director John Stomberg and co-curators Betty Zimmerberg and Kathryn Price.
6:30 pm Reception
Celebrate the opening of Landscapes of the Mind, Remington’s Bronco Buster, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Juggernaut.
 
Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk: Models of the Mind
Tuesday, March 2
4:00 pm
Joseph Cruz, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Andrea Danyluk, Acting Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Computer Science; and Safa Zaki, Associate Professor of Psychology. In conjunction with the exhibition Landscapes of the Mind.

Family Program: Art & the Brain
Saturday, March 6, 2010
1:00–4:00 pm
What would it feel like to be inside a brain? Find out in the exhibition, Landscape of the Mind: Contemporary Artists Contemplate the Brain, where you can watch brightly colored neurons grow like tree branches. The invisible workings of the mind become visible in contemporary sculptures, installation, prints, and embroidery. This family program offers student-led tours of the exhibition, mind games, artmaking projects, and mind-blowing activities by Williams professors Betty Zimmerberg and Noah Sandstrom. Children of all ages welcome.

Landscapes of the Mind: A Symposium
Saturday, March 13
1:00–5:00 pm
This symposium brings together artists and neuroscientists for an afternoon of talks and discussions about creativity, visualizing the brain, and finding connections where art and science meet.
Speakers include:
• Artists Susan Aldworth and Katy Schimert
• Neuroscientists Sally Shaywitz, Bennett Shaywitz, and Bevil Conway
• Curators Betty Zimmerberg and Kathryn Price
 
Funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Williams College Lecture Committee. Special thanks to the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neuroscience for their support.

Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk: Oedipal Blind Spot
Tuesday, March 16
4:00 pm
Meredith Hoppin, Frank M. Gagliardi Professor of Classics; Lara Hutson, Assistant Professor of Biology; and Gail Newman, Harold J. Henry Professor of German. In conjunction with the exhibition Landscapes of the Mind.