from the faculty advisory committee<strong>Duke</strong> faculty continued to play an activerole in the <strong>Nasher</strong> <strong>Museum</strong>—organizingexhibitions, giving talks, consulting, creatingcomplementary classes and projects, andadvising on art acquisitions.In four meetings last year, the FacultyAdvisory Committee reported oncollaborations with the summer readingprogram and the medical school, generatedideas for faculty involvement with upcomingexhibitions and discussed new webresources for faculty and students as wellas opportunities for virtual exhibitions andcuration to encourage online participation.One <strong>of</strong> the year’s most exciting exhibitions,The Deconstructive Impulse, was enhancedby Kim Lamm, assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor in<strong>Duke</strong>’s Women’s Studies Program. Shegave a gallery talk and also designed acomplementary course, “Feminist <strong>Art</strong> fromthe 1970s to the Present,” which used theexhibition as primary material.I am pleased also to acknowledge <strong>Duke</strong>graduate student Katie Jentleson, whohelped to research and write wall labelsfor Angels, Devils and the ElectricSlide: Outsider <strong>Art</strong> from the PermanentCollection.Faculty members Sumathi Ramaswamy,pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> history, and Philip Stern,assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> history and codirector<strong>of</strong> the BorderWork(s) Lab at <strong>Duke</strong>’sFranklin Humanities Institute, have workedclosely with <strong>Nasher</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> curatorsSarah Schroth and Trevor Schoonmaker tocoordinate the upcoming exhibition 2013Lines <strong>of</strong> Control. That exhibition exploresthe creation and maintenance <strong>of</strong> borders,physical as well as psychological, withmulti-disciplinary implications in the fields<strong>of</strong> geography, cartography, political science,public policy, history, economics andenvironmental studies.The project “Rivalrous Masculinities:Images <strong>of</strong> the Male Body over Time,” underthe supervision <strong>of</strong> Ann Marie Rasmussen,pr<strong>of</strong>essor in <strong>Duke</strong>’s Department <strong>of</strong>Germanic Languages and Literature,comprises a series <strong>of</strong> undergraduateseminars at <strong>Duke</strong> that will meet virtuallywith similar seminars being held at the<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hamburg, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong>Frankfurt and <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Bamberg.The goal is to create a series <strong>of</strong> studentcuratedexhibitions, cumulating in anexhibition at the <strong>Nasher</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> in2013-14, with a parallel exhibition at theCity <strong>Museum</strong> in Bamberg, Germany.Caroline Bruzelius, Anne M. CoganPr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>, <strong>Art</strong> History & VisualStudies, and Mark Olson, assistantpr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> visual and media studies,worked with students on the upcomingexhibition <strong>of</strong> the museum’s Brummercollection <strong>of</strong> Medieval and Renaissance art.Their spring <strong>2012</strong> seminar, “The <strong>Museum</strong>Inside/Out: Sculpture in Context,” waspart <strong>of</strong> the “Wired! New RepresentationalTechnologies” series <strong>of</strong> courses in Visualand Media Studies. Using the <strong>Nasher</strong><strong>Museum</strong> as a laboratory, the students andpr<strong>of</strong>essors experimented with a variety<strong>of</strong> digital tools, such as laser scanning,photogrammetry, geo-mapping andrestorative 2D/3D digital modeling to <strong>of</strong>fernon-invasive meditations on objects. Theycreated five 3D digital models <strong>of</strong> works inthe permanent collection.Last, but hardly least, I am happy to reportthat Patricia Leighten, pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>History & Visual Studies at <strong>Duke</strong>, is workingwith Sarah Schroth to co-organize LightSensitive, an exhibition <strong>of</strong> more than 100works drawn from leading North Carolinacollections, for winter 2013.Sincerely,Kristine StilesFrance Family Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>, <strong>Art</strong> History &Visual StudiesChair, Faculty Advisory CommitteeSee full listing <strong>of</strong> the Faculty AdvisoryCommittee on page 45.Faculty Advisory Committee1128031_Text.indd 1112/5/12 10:01 AM
TOP LEFT: <strong>Duke</strong> students take a closer look at photographs in Becoming. Photo by J Caldwell. TOP RIGHT: Dr. Kenneth Montague, who organized Becoming,addresses the crowd at the exhibition opening. Photo by J Caldwell. BOTTOM: Gallery photo by Peter Paul Ge<strong>of</strong>frion.12 Becoming28031_Text.indd 1211/28/12 1:35 AM
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