Time to mark your calendar for this month’s two Friday-morning presentations in the Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Study Centre (“P&D”). The talks, called Striking Impressions, are free of charge and open to AGO visitors and volunteers as well.
“It’s a labour of love, not part of our P&D placement description,” explains Edith Layne, who heads the SI Team – all P&D volunteers who handle these talks in addition to their regular duties. “We’re responsible for 21 talks a year, and most team members contribute two or three.”
Topics range as widely as the volunteers’ own fields of special interest and experience.
March 8: “Depictions of Water on Paper” (David Keenleyside)
“My talk focuses on both the skill and possible lack of skill with which artists can depict this difficult and constantly changing subject,” says David, who is a 10-year veteran of the team and has long background in this topic. He will illustrate his discussion with works by well-known artists (Richard Bonington and James McNeill Whistler), several “relatively obscure” artists, and one Unknown.
“Printed with Light: Photographic Processes” (Molly Kalkstein)
Molly, an intern with the AGO Photographic Department, is a Masters student at Ryerson in Photographic Preservation and already holds an MFA in print-making. “My talk is intended as an introduction to a diverse handful of beautiful processes that are represented in the AGO’s photography collection. I will show some colour photography, but also daguerreotypes, albumen prints and photogravure, as well as a selection of silver gelatin prints to show the diversity within that one general process.”
Striking Impressions quick facts
- Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Centre
- 2nd & 4th Friday of every month (except 2nd Friday only in December, and none in August)
- 11 a.m. – noon; doors open at 10:30 a.m.
- no charge