Art Presentations by Wendy Evans

 

 

TALKS GIVEN AT MAJOR INSTITUTIONS

Detroit Institute of Arts

2008

European Art of the 18th Century

2007

Lecture series on Ancient Middle East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

European Art of the 18th Century

2006

Lectures on Ancient Middle East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

2003-2006

Instructor for History of Art Course, Paleolithic through 20th Century

2002

Sense and Sensibility: The Enlightenment, Neoclassicism and Romanticism, 1740-1850

2001

Early 20th Century Art

2000-2001

Lectures on Baroque and Rococo Art

1994-2000

Instructor for History of Art Course, Paleolithic through 20th Century

Adult Learning Institute, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI 48334

2010

Art in the Third Reich

2009

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing

Art Controversies: Old and New

2008

Diego Rivera and his Murals

Monet to Dali

2007

Painters of Urban Life: The Ashcan School

2006

Triumph and Tragedy: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin

English Accents

2005

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Speakers Forum Lecture

2003

The Magnificent Medici - series of 4 Speakers Forum Lectures

Seeing Red - Speakers Forum Lecture

2002

A Dance around Degas - series of 4 Speakers Forum Lectures

2001

Seeing More in Art - series of 4 Speakers Forum Lectures

2000

Renaissance and Baroque Art - series of 2 Speakers Forum Lectures

Society for Active Retirees, Wayne State University, Oakland Campus

2010

Post Impressionism:  Art in Late 19th-century France- 3 week series

2009

Expressionism: The Assertive Art - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Good, Bad, and Ugly:  Women in Art
- series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

2008

Titans of the Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael - 3 part series 
 

Diego Rivera and his Murals

2007 

Magical Multiples  - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Opening Doors, Opening Eyes: American Art 1875-1955
- series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

2006 

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Art of the Renaissance and Baroque - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Institute for Retired Professionals, Jewish Community Center

2009 

The Detroit Institute of Arts - Let Yourself Go

2007 

Happy Birthday Rembrandt!

2006

Triumph and Tragedy: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin - Inaugural lecture for Spring Mini Series sponsored by Maida Portnoy

  Village Club, Bloomfield Hills

2010

Titans of the Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael - 3 part series 
 
Impressionism: The Art of Seeing
- series of 3 weekly classes

2009

Art in the City -  Madrid

The Art of Ancient Greece

Art in the Third Reich

Art in the City -  London


The Sensational Seventeenth Century

How to Look at Art

2008

Monet to Dali

Art of the Renaissance


Opening Doors, Opening Eyes: American Art 1875-1955
- series of 3 weekly classes

2007

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution!

Century of Change: The Art and Ideas of 18th Century France

2006

Saints and Sinners

Magical Multiples: The Art of the Print

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

The Rivera Murals: Detroit Industry

2005

Triumph and Tragedy: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin 

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

English Accents

2004

From the Salon to the Saloon: The Revolution against Tradition - 4 lecture series

Birmingham Community House

2010

Art in the City - LONDON

Art in the City - MADRID

2009

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art - 3 class series

Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 South Cranbrook Road, Birmingham, MI 48009

2009

Art in the City - LONDON

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art

Art Controversies: Old and New

Diego Rivera and his Murals

2008

Monet to Dali

Painters of Urban Life: The Ashcan School

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution!

2007

Happy Birthday Rembrandt!

2006

Magical Multiples - 3 part series of 1 1/2 hour classes

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

2005

Triumph and Tragedy: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin 

Seeing Red: Color in Art

Sensuous Poetry: Art of 16th Century Venice

2004

From the Salon to the Saloon: The Revolution against Tradition - 5 lecture series

Alliance Francaise de Grosse Pointe

2010

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution!

Jewish Community Center

2009

The Nazi Use of Art as Propaganda - Stephen Gottlieb Festival of the Arts lecture presented by the Holocaust Memorial Center

Sterling Heights Public Library

2009

Picturing America

Charlevoix Public Library, Charlevoix, MI

2007

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution! - first annual Heise Lecture

 Crooked Tree Art Center, Petosky, MI

2009 

An American Century: Art from the Collection of Jane and Richard Manoogian

2006 

Precedents to Plein Air: Nature Naturally - Coffee at Ten Program 

Sanilac County Historical Museum

2005

Visions of Egyptian Art - lecture as museum fundraiser

Fox Run, Novi 

2009

The New Detroit Institute of Arts

2007

Art of the 20th Century - 3 part series of 1 1/2 hour classes

How to Look at Art

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual on art.

 

Susan Sontag