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August 24 – December 21, 2024
Pat Guthrie Special Exhibitions Teaching Gallery
The Pat Guthrie Special Exhibitions Teaching Gallery presents four installations of artwork, each specific to a course taught during the Fall 2024 semester at the University of Wyoming. Faculty from a range of academic disciplines select artwork from our permanent collection to support the content and learning goals of their respective classes.
This method of object-based teaching and learning invites inquiry, curiosity, and creative thinking into the student's educational experience. These skills are tools to prepare our future workforce and leaders, no matter their path, and help enliven the cultural experience in Wyoming.
This semester, we welcome students and faculty from the following UW classes and departments into the museum:
Aubrey Edwards, Lecturer, Anthropology
ANTH 4380: Visual Anthropology
This course offers anthropological interpretation of visual representations and media, including analysis of the development of ethnographic films and their contemporary use. Visual representations of many cultures as well as mainstream United States examples are analyzed.
Billi London-Gray, Visiting Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
ART 1130: Foundation Color
Foundation Color is one of three foundation courses (along with Foundation 2D and Foundation 3D) that investigate the fundamentals of design. Students will explore color theories based on the color wheel/light spectrum including hue, value, chroma, and aesthetic color relationships. Optical color, emotional/psychological color, and color symbolism are also covered. Structured critiques are employed to provide students with the experience of assessing formal, conceptual, and technical aspects of art.
Dr. Seth Swanner, Assistant Professor, English
ENGL 5230: Studies in English Renaissance Literature: Early Modern Historicisms
As part of the English Department's new Ph.D. program in the Public Humanities, this course will consider early modern literature as a living constellation of artifacts that record historical ideas and material conditions. Students will learn how early modern books were made, how editions of Renaissance literature are compiled today, and how historicist literary scholars do their research. But, further, this course explores how historical expertise is communicated to ever-widening publics who always have expertise in their own right. By analyzing museum exhibits, theatrical productions, and digitized literatures, students will see that "expertise" is best understood not as something held only by "experts" but as a product of reciprocal transactions among scholars, the public, and the vibrant past.
Bénédicte Sohier, Senior Lecturer, Modern and Classical Languages
FREN 2030: Second Year French
French 2030 uses a variety of language-teaching approaches to help students work toward mastery of all four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. To acquire these skills, the course is delivered in French and follows a communicative approach. The overall emphasis is on communication and language use in realistic situations that could prove useful in a practical sense. Topics such as technology, art and employment will be covered, as well as films related to French-speaking communities.
Images:
(Left top) Shelby Lee Adams (American, b. 1950), Leddie & Children, 1990, black and white photograph on paper, 14-3/4 x 18-3/4 inches, UW Art Museum Collection, 1991.20.2
(Right top) Richard Anuszkiewicz (American, 1930-2020), Plate 3 "Inward Eye," 1970, color serigraph on paper, 25-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches, Friends of the UW Art Museum Purchase, 1980.27.4A
(Left bottom) Adolf Nauer (German, 1893-1966), In the Studio, not dated, oil on canvas, 27 x 31 inches, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Millman, 1973.54.1
(Right bottom) Henry Eugene Moret, (French, 1856-1913), Saint Guenole, Penmarch, 1905, oil on canvas, 24 x 28-1/2 inches, gift of Mr. M. Mitchell Gruhn, 1977.14.1