Upcoming Courses and Events
Black Mountain College 92NY Roundtable
Online Thursdays, Dec. 01 – Dec. 22nd, 12 – 1:30pm
With World War II looming, a school in a small town in North Carolina became an unlikely beacon of artistic education, collaboration, and innovation, in the late 1930s and 1940s.
Black Mountain College was the most important art school in America and a wild experiment of creativity and revolutionary educational shifts. Join art historian Joseph Tokumasu Field to learn about the school, which existed for only just over a decade, but left an impact with reverberations that are still being felt today. Students will focus on art world luminaries like Anni and Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, and others who were all members of the faculty. We’ll also examine the student body, which included Robert Rauschenberg, Ruth Asawa, Ray Johnson, Elaine deKooning, and more artists whose works fill collections around the world.
https://roundtable.org/educator/joseph-tokumasu-field
Japanese American Art of the 20th Century
92NY Roundtable
Thursday, April 20th-May 11th 12:00 - 1:30 PM
The great melting pot of American artists of foreign descent produced an incredible body of work in various mediums throughout the twentieth century. The role of Japanese American artists, like Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, Ruth Asawa and others made critical contributions to the fields of visual art, design, and education. Art historian and educator Joseph Tokumasu Field highlights these artists and their impact on the art world. Explore the lives and practices of Japanese American artists, the cross-cultural influences in the work, how artists defied racism, and in some cases, were influenced by the trauma of internment during World War II. Field will unpack these experiences, which led to daring advancements in the arts and often provided a platform for political activism.
This is a live, virtual course hosted by Roundtable, which includes interactive opportunities and post-course recordings available for all course participants.
https://roundtable.org/educator/joseph-tokumasu-field