PSSA Events
Acts of Defiance: Exploring Protest Art
Saturday 15 May 2021 10.00-14.10
SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR ART HISTORY (SSAH) in partnership with THE PUBLIC STATUES AND SCULPTURE ASSOCIATION
Free Event – Online Webinar
Exploring the relationship between art & protest, & the role of art in confronting political, social, cultural & environmental issues.
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Mary Edmonia Lewis (1845-1907), Hagar, 1875, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. Photo: Public Domain
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring Series One
Tuesday 18 May 5.30pm
Discovering Women Sculptors from the 17th Century to the Present Day
Online Zoom talk – Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis, Neoclassicism, and the Negotiations of Place by Professor Kirsten Pai Buick
Free event for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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Augusta Savage with Realization, part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Photo: Andrew Herman 1938, Public Domain.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring Series One
Tuesday 25 May 5.30pm
Discovering Women Sculptors from the 17th Century to the Present Day
Online Zoom talk , I have created nothing really beautiful:’ Augusta Savage’s Practice by Dr Jeffreen Hayes
Free event for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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Giovanni Battista Foggini, S. Andrea Corsini guiding the Florentines to Victory at Battle of Anghiari, 1685-87, marble, Corsini Chapel, Sta Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy. Photo: Dr Kira d'Alburquerque
A Taste of Italy: Three Lectures on Italian Sculpture
Monday 7 June 5.30 pm
Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725), Court Sculptor to Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III by Dr Kira d’Alburquerque, Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and PSSA Associate Trustee.
Online talk, free for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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A Taste of Italy: Three Lectures on Italian Sculpture
Tuesday 8 June 5.30
From Madonnas to Myths: Alabaster sculptures from Trapani by Dr Jeremy Warren, Honorary Curator of Sculpture, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Sculpture Research Curator, The National Trust.
Online talk, free for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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A Taste of Italy: Three Lectures on Italian Sculpture
Wednesday 9 June 5.30pm
Picturing Domenico Brucciani: The Man Behind the (Death) Masks by Dr Rebecca Wade, Freelance art historian and curator.
Online talk, free for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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Toppling Statues Webinar
23 and 24 November 2020
Co-hosted by the PSSA and The Burlington Magazine this free webinar coincided with the Burlington’s annual sculpture issue. The event proved extremely popular with around 450 people registered to attend and over 200 participants on both days. This highlighted the fact that people were keen to debate the concerns surrounding the issue of contested heritage in a constructive forum.