Women in Art and Music is a two-part conference hosted jointly by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and The Juilliard School in New York. The conference is organized by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer (National Gallery) and Elizabeth Weinfield (Juilliard).
Presentations and performances will think more broadly about women as creators, as part of the cultural and global economy, and as experts in their chosen fields of art.
Join us for the first of two days at the National Gallery of Art.
Morning Presentations
Lavinia Fontana and the Soundscape of Bologna
10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Introductory Remarks
Steven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, National Gallery of Art
Aoife Brady, National Gallery of Ireland
“Lavinia Fontana and the Theater of Painting”
Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University (emerita)
“Women, Painting, and Music in Seicento Bologna: Elisabetta Sirani and Teresa Muratori”
Patricia Simons, University of Michigan (emerita)
“The Tension between Decorum and Opportunity: Lavinia Fontana's Minerva”
Panelist Discussion
Moderated by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, National Gallery of Art
Performance
Sonnambula, joined by Juilliard students from the music and drama divisions
1:00–1:30 p.m.
National Gallery Library, East Building, Main Floor
Afternoon Presentations
Women Playing Music/Women Playing with Music
1:30–3:00 p.m.
Sheila Barker, Studio Incamminati
Eric Bianchi, Fordham University
“The Women to Whom Men Listened: Singers, Sonnets, and Artemisia Gentileschi as Poet”
Sara Salloum, University of Durham
“Fantasy vs. Reality: Female Lute Players in Early Modern Art Analyzed by a 21st-Century Lutenist”
Melissa Hyde, University of Florida
“Rose Ducreux’s Self-Portrait (1791): Harping on the Question of the Woman Artist”
Panelist Discussion
Moderated by Elizabeth Weinfield, The Juilliard School
Playing with Patronage
3:15–4:45 p.m.
Emily Pegues, National Gallery of Art
“‘Come, Come and Be Crowned’: Louise de Bourbon’s Artistic Authority at Fontevraud”
David Wilkins, University of Pittsburgh (emeritus)
“Looking at Isabella Anew”
Michelle Moseley, Virginia Tech
“Fashioning the Female Collector: Identity, Self-Promotion, and the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse”
Vrinda Agrawal, University of Michigan
“Heard and Seen: The Rasikā as a Musical Connoisseur in Pahari Painting”
Panelist Discussion
Moderated by Gloria de Liberali, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art