W HAT'S INSIDE

01 PERSPECTIVE
03 THE CONVERSATION
06 EXTRA EXTRA
12 EXHIBITIONS
21 COLLECTIONS
26 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
36 OUTCOMES
38 GALLERY
41 ART CHANGES LIVES

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CONTRIBUTORS
Rebecca Bres er
Scott Bishop
Auburn Co .le
Danielle Funderbur<
Dennis Harper
Jessica Hughes
Lauren Horton
Renee M aurer

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PHOTOGRAPHY
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 wo of the many ongoing programs at JCSM that give
Auburn University students and faculty opportunities
to engage with art in meaningful ways are Little
Art Talks, which happen on the third Thursday of the
month during the academic year, and FILM@JCSM,
a series of six films shown over the two academic
semesters to contextualize, enhance and interpret major
exhibitions. In this article, we hear from two professors
and two students about their experiences using JCSM's
collections, exhibitions and programs to foster the
transformative power of art.

Often, Little Art Talks are staffed by students in Assistant

Professor Emily Burns' upper level art history classes.
Enrolled in classes as myriad as 19th-century art,
American Art, Constructing Race in Visual Culture or
the Arts of Asia, Burns' students have found an array of
objects to analyze in the collections. At the beginning of
the semester, the students have a class meeting to visit
the museum to view objects relevant to the class; each
student picks a piece to research, and to present as an
art talk to museum patrons.

"Working on Little Art Talk presentations gives students TOP TO BOTIOM: Em 3 -: :;_
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the essential experience of scholarly art history research by allowing them to visitors before a Little Art - c
work directly with works of art," Burns said. "They can consider aesthetics
questions of style, materiality and scale that are difficult to convey from slides
in the classroom." Furthermore, Burns encourages students to note questions
of condition and connoisseurship. "The experience allows students to take
ownership over their project by picking an object, independently developing
research and developing a presentation that combines visual analysis and
research findings," Burns said. By sharing their research project in an oral
presentation not only with other students, but also with the community,
Burns' students are able to participate in JCSM's mission of researching
and interpreting our collections.

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Madeline Burkhardt (Left), pictured with colleagues from the
Rosa Parks Museum, Donna Beisel and D. Keith Worthington.
Photo by TROY Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer
RIGHT PAGE (L toR): Dr. Sunny Stalter-Poce; JCSM's 2015
presentation of Along the Eastern Road: Hiroshige's Fifty-Three
Stations of the Tokaido in the Bill L. Harbert Gallery.

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r It is hard to express how invaluable the experience is for
undergraduates to work directly with works of art. Madeline
Burkhardt, a recent graduate from the Department of Art
and Art History at Auburn University, is now adult education
coordinator at the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University
Montgomery while pursuing a Master's in museum studies from
Johns Hopkins University. Burkhardt delivered three Little Art
Talks during her time at Auburn and said she was grateful she
had the opportunity.
"The talks helped me prepare for my future career in museums.
Because of this opportunity, I had the chance to better explore
JCSM's collection, get 'up close and personal' with my selected
objects and make an impact in the community," Burkhardt said.
"The public presentations gave me the confidence to present my
research papers at Auburn's This is Research symposium and in
front of 40 docents at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Also, Little Art Talks strengthened my CV and came up in both
my professional and academic interviews."
It isn't just art and art history students and faculty who benefi-;:
from JCSM's collections and exhibitions. Sunny Stalter-
Pace calls JCSM an incredible resource for her teaching
and scholarship. Her undergraduate students have attended
exhibitions and written about the art in relation to readings
in her class . Her graduate students have presented Little Ar t
Talks. Subway Exit, the 0 . Louis Guglielmi painting in the
Advancing American Art collection, provided the cover art for
her first book. But the collaboration Stalter-Pace has been mo::
instrumental in is the film series called FILM@JCSM, where
FILM stands for Fostering Interdisciplinary Learning throua
Movies. "The series began as a modest bit of outreach," Stalte:--
Pace said. "I worked with other faculty members to find three
films from 1968, along with three speakers who could reflect -
their meaning 40 years later." The concept was interesting, so _
the foll owing academic year JCSM asked her to find films fro=
the year of the u pcoming exhibit, Elvis at 21. That gave FIL' ~=
JCSM its purpose, finding films that reflected on aspects of
museum's concurrent exhibitions.

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 ~'&J C SM brings the art of our exhibitions into dialogue
:J1m and many other subjects as well. A scholar introduces
:Jlm, providing context for the audience and discussing it in
to his or her own work. The spring 2016 series, Portraits
Anists, presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Face to
Anists' Self-portraits from the Collection of Jackye and Curtis
- Jr., featured three biographical films . They were introduced
by an art historian, a scholar of women's literature
.,;::; ethnomusicologist. All three of these speakers were invited
"tber institutions, and while they were here visited Auburn
""'"'"""'in: classes as well.
-.siting scholars bring unique perspectives on the films,
the interdisciplinary focus that makes the series
relevant to JCSM's broad university and community
,......~'-" " "When asked to comment on the same kind of object,
fro m music, literature and art departments ask different
and tell different kinds of stories," Stalter-Pace said.
"This, in turn, helps people in the audience to break out of their
ingrained viewing habits and see films-and art-in a new way."
Since each scholar visits Auburn University classes while on
campus, students are a central part of the audience for this series.
The museum's programs can have an impact on Auburn students
as well, like Wallis Stanfield. During the fall of 2015, JCSM
presented Along the Eastern Road: H iroshige's Fifty- Three Stations
of the Tokaido, a collection of ukiyo-e prints by the 19th-century
Japanese artist, Hiroshige. Stanfield had just begun taking a
Japanese language class and several professors encouraged her
to see the exhibition and attend the FILM@JCSM series
related to it.
Stanfield attended a gallery talk by Andy Kozlowski, a
printmaker from the Department of Art and Art History,
where she learned about the historically and culturally-
significant ukiyo-e prints, and about the T6kaid6 Road, which
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Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858). 26th
Station: Kawegawa, ca. 1833-34 from
Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road,
woodblock print, courtesy of Reading Public
Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania; After
seeing landscapes in the galleries, Stanfield
saw similar views on her iourney, such as
the Nijubashi Bridge,that connects to the
Tokyo Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan.
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during the Edo period connected modern-day To1..'"}-
to Kyoto. "After that, I set out to learn more throu_
personal research, promising myself to make the
time necessary between my classes and extra-
curricular activities to attend more JCSM events,"
Stanfield said, particularly noting FILM@JCSM's
series that semester "Found in Translation."
Stanfield attended two of the three films in that
series. Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims, a tale
of two gay lovers and their travels along the Tokaido
Road, based on two traditional Japanese character
associated with Edo period narratives, was perhap
a bit edgy for some audience members, but not for
Stanfield. "The placement of psychedelic American
culture within the historical context of traditional
Japan made for an enlightening and entertaining
experience, one I truly believe I would not have
ever had otherwise without JCSM's dedication to
diversity, both in its collections and the events it
hosts," she said.
The second film she attended was the 1957 Thmne
of Blood directed by Akira Kurosawa, a feudal
Japanese retelling of Macbeth, which coincided \Yith
a Shakespeare class Stanfield was enrolled in at the
time. "The film definitely influenced my academic
perspective on the placement of established literary
themes in new contexts, ones I would not have dare
to see on my own," she said.
According to Stanfield, the Japanese-themed
film series and the print exhibition made quite
an impression on her as a student. "Oftentimes,
students can get so absorbed in their own, small,
American-collegiate spheres that tl1ey forget about
the world of global opportunities and interests that
suetch beyond the doorsteps of their campuses, she
said. "I think it's vital that those students should try
to explore new interests in territories unfamiliar to
them in order to learn more about themselves as
members of a globalized society."
In June 2016, Stanfield traveled to Japan and
was able to make cultural connections with her
experiences from Auburn. In August, she attended the prestigious academic
68th Japan-American Student Conference, joining 36 American university
student delegates and 36 Japanese university student delegates for a m onth
"I'm so thankful to Auburn University and JCSM for such a wonderful an
eye-opening opportunity to see the Auburn community and myself within
the trans-Pacific exchange and for the appreciation of Japanese culture
and history," she said.
 c like to think of the museum as one of the largest
.:1::srooms on campus, and we are eager to assist
~-ulty members and area teachers in discovering

many ways that you might use JCSM's programs,

zihitions and collections as part of your curriculum.
tr interactions with JCSM can take many forms
duding class tours, assignment collaboration and
cct engagement with art objects. Another way to
_ iuvolved is through membership. For more
. ~mnation, visit our collaborations page: TO P TO BOITOM:
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p: 'f csm.auburn.edu/.collaborations/. red tori gates at Fushimi Ina~" s-=
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