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Artist Talk: Laurie Sloan
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus
The William Benton Museum of Art
Laurie Sloan, Associate Professor of Printmaking in UConn Art Department will talk about her work.

Refreshments follow
Contact Information: Karen Sommer x4520
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"What's the Alternative?" Tour & Workshop
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Storrs Campus
The William Benton Museum of Art & The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
TOUR & WORKSHOP
Thursday, October 4, 4:30-6:30pm

Explore the trajectory of the alternative press from the 1960s to 2016 with Graham Stinnett, Archivist, Human Rights & Alternative Press Collections.

Meet at the Benton for a tour of the exhibition "What's the Alternative? The Art and Outrage of the 1960s Underground Press". Workshop continues at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center followed by a reception.

RSVP to x4520 or benton@uconn.edu. Space is limited.
FREE. Donations gratefully accepted.

With Support from the Richard and Joanne Akeroyd Fund for Archives and Special Collections
Contact Information: Karen Sommer x4520
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Salon at the Benton: Dangerous Art & Censorship
Friday, October 12th, 2018
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Storrs Campus
The William Benton Museum of Art
Salon at the Benton: Art & Conversation
Dangerous Art and Censorship
Join the discussion

5-5:30 pm Cash Bar; light hors d'oeuvres
5:30 pm Discusion commences.

Panelists:
Dwayne Booth (aka Mr. Fish)is a cartoonist and freelance writer whose work can most regularly be seen on http://Harpers.org and Truthdig. com and has been published internationally. He has been a cartoonist and freelance writer for 20 years, publishing under both his own name and the penname of Mr. Fish. He is the subject of a 2017 feature documentary, âMr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End.â He is curator of the exhibition "What's the Alternative?" currently on view at the museum.

Molly Land is Professor of Law and Human Rights and the Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at UConn. Professor Landâs scholarship focuses on the intersection of human rights, science, and technology. Her current work explores the extent to which human rights law can provide a foundation for claims of access to the Internet as well as the opportunities and challenges for using new technologies to achieve human rights objectives.

Christopher Vials is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at UConn. His specialties are 20th-Century American literature, popular culture, working class literature, political economy, U.S. empire, and social class and racial formation. His current work deals with narratives of economic development, imperialism in contemporary U.S. culture, antifascism and the cultural work of social movements on the political left and right.

Moderator: Brendan Kane is Associate Professor of History and Assistant Director of Public Humanities at UConn. His area of specialty is early modern British and Irish history. He has authored several books on this subject and has co-curated the exhibition Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2013). His interests include comparative colonialism and the history of human rights; and gender and history.

FREE. Donations gratefully accepted.

RSVP appreciated to x4520 or benton@uconn.edu.
Contact Information: Karen Sommer x4520
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Opening Reception: Ellen Emmet Rand Exhibition
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
04:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Storrs Campus
The William Benton Museum of Art
Join the School of Fine Arts for two opening receptions.
Benton Museum: 4 - 6:30p,
Ballard Museum: 6:30 - 8:30.

At The Benton Museum:
Opening Reception for "The Business of Bodies: Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) and the Persuasion of Portraiture"

Music by Survivors Swing Band

FREE. Open to everyone.

Cash Bar; Light hors d'oeuvres

Remarks at 5pm

RSVP appreciated to 860-486-4520 or benton@uconn.edu.

Continue on to the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetryâs for their newest exhibition "Living Objects: African American Puppetry" opening reception from 6:30-8pm.

Transportation will be available starting at 6:15 from the Benton Museum to the Ballard Museum and to the parking areas after that.
Contact Information: Karen Sommer x4520
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Critical Looking: A Gallery Dialogue
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Storrs Campus
The William Benton Museum of Art
Join Amanda Douberley, Assistant Curator/Academic Liaison, for 30 minutes of close looking and discussion focused on Kathe Kollwitz's print Ãberfahren [Run Over]

Image Credit: Kathe Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945), Ãberfahren [Run Over] 1910. Soft-ground etching, William Benton Museum of Art, Gift of Walter Landauer.
Contact Information: Karen Sommer x5084
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