In Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr I: Women as Artists and Patrons

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval Foremothers Society

Organizer Name

Rachel Dressler

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. at Albany

Presider Name

Lynn Jones

Presider Affiliation

Florida State Univ.

Paper Title 1

Unexpected Statements of Female Power: Case Studies from Crete and Cyprus

Presenter 1 Name

Cristina Stancioiu

Presenter 1 Affiliation

College of William & Mary

Paper Title 2

Lillian P. Bliss as a Patron of Byzantine Art

Presenter 2 Name

Helen C. Evans

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paper Title 3

Re-Purposing West for East at Resafa: A Woman Patron in the Christian Middle East

Presenter 3 Name

Glen Peers

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Texas-Austin

Paper Title 4

Female Sovereignty and Strategic Art Making: Crossing Cultural and Religious Borders in Medieval Iberia

Presenter 4 Name

Therese Martin

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Start Date

14-5-2015 10:00 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

The Medieval Foremothers Society is pleased to announce that we will be honoring art historian Annemarie Weyl Carr at the 2015 Kalamazoo in two sessions: In Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr I: Women as Artists and Patrons and In Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr II: Visualizations of Mary, East and West. Professor Carr well deserves to be honored as a medieval Foremother for her research on women in Byzantium, her teaching on medieval women artists, patrons, and religious, and her mentoring of numerous successful women medieval art historians. In addition, she has played a strong leadership role in the discipline of medieval art history.

The first session focuses on women as makers and commissioners of medieval visual images, resonating with the early phase of feminist art history to which Prof. Carr contributed with her all-important article in the Feminist Art Journal.

Rachel Dressler