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Jennie Hirsh Mini-Course

Online Mini-Course with Jennie Hirsh SITE Santa Fe

MICA Professor, Jennie Hirsh will be offering an online mini-course on on Feminist Thought in Contemporary Art.

Mondays in March at 2pm!

This four-week online course brought to you by SITE Santa Fe will consider the history of feminist thought in contemporary art from the 1960s to the present through case studies of artworks, exhibitions, performances, and initiatives that highlight feminist practice.

Jennie Hirsh
Jennie Hirsh is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and the assistant curator of Invisible City
Week One (Mar 1) review the history of legislation connected to feminism in the U.S. as well as key artistic thinkers and critiques.

Week Two (Mar 8) examine early Feminist Art in the 1960s and 1970s.

Week Three (Mar 15) considers of the next wave of feminist artists with an emphasis on performativity and community from the 1980s to the present. 

Week Four (Mar 22) focus on twenty-first century artists whose work represents feminist gestures and critiques conventional understandings of gender. 

Jennie Hirsh Bio

Jennie Hirsh holds a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art from the History of Art Department at Bryn Mawr College, where she also earned an MA in art of the Italian Renaissance.
 

Jennie Hirsh received an MA in Italian from Middlebury College and her BA in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. At MICA, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, including surveys of contemporary art as well as more focused topical classes on the art and architecture of totalitarian regimes, visual culture and the holocaust, contemporary portraiture, postwar Italian cinema, curatorial studies, and professional practices. Hirsh is also the coordinator for the graduate concentration in critical studies.

Jennie Hirsh is currently completing Speculations: On the Art and Writing of Giorgio de Chirico, a monograph focused on the artist’s pictorial and literary self-representation, and her volume Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, co-edited with Isabelle Wallace, appeared with Ashgate Publishing (2011). Her essays on artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Jean-Luc Godard and Roberto Rossellini, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Neysa Grassi, Michael Huey, Giorgio Morandi, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Yinka Shonibare, and Regina Silveira have appeared in scholarly volumes, academic journals, and museum catalogues, and she served as general editor for the catalogue Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. She is currently co-curating Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde, an exhibition scheduled to open in January 2020. Hirsh has held fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright commission to Italy and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and, prior to teaching at MICA, she was a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College (2003-2005) and a postdoctoral fellow at both Princeton (2005-2006) and Colombia Universities (fall 2006).