Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月, Japanese (1791–1875), Travel Journal to Arashiyama (Arashiyama hana no ki) Detail, 1800s. Folding album: Ink and colors on paper; each leaf 6 in x 4 1/4, Gift of Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone. 2021.206.
Symposium: Gender and Voice in Japanese Art
The Denver Art Museum is pleased to host a one-day international symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection. Scholars and specialists from various disciplines will add to the discourse on approaches and methodologies in the study, connoisseurship, and exhibition of Japanese art through the lens of gender, agency, and artistic voice.
This event is fully supported by the generous gift of The William Sharpless Jackson, Jr. Endowment for the Advancement of Asian Art and Culture.
The symposium will be conducted in person in Sturm Grand Pavilion (Martin Building, Level 2) as well as virtually via Zoom. It is free to attend but registration is required.
Speakers
- Paul Berry, Independent scholar and former professor at Kansai Gaidai University and University of Washington (Kyoto, Japan)
- Patricia Fister, Professor Emeritus, International Research Center for Japanese Studies Director of Research, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute/Center for the Study of Women, Buddhism, and Cultural History (Tokyo, Japan)
- Melissa McCormick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
- Alison J. Miller, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies, The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)
- Amy Beth Stanley, Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
- Marcia A. Yonemoto, Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)
Schedule
9 am: Coffee and Welcome
9:20 am: Introductions
9:30-10 am: Patricia Fister, Shining Light on Art by Japanese Buddhist Nuns
10-10:30 am Melissa McCormick, Ōtagaki Rengetsu’s Buddhist Poetics: Gender and Materiality
10:30–10:40 am: Coffee break
10:45–11:15 am: Paul Berry, Narratives of Japanese Art History: Where are the Women?
11:15-11:45 am: Q&A
11:45-1:30 pm: Lunch break
1:30-2 pm: Marcia A. Yonemoto, Her Brush, Her Needle: Rethinking the Relationship Between Art and Artisanal Work by Women in Early Modern Japan
2–2:30 pm: Amy Beth Stanley, Reading an Archive of Everyday Life
2:30–2:40 pm: Coffee break
2:45–3:15 pm: Alison J. Miller, Finding Gender in Japanese Literati Painting
3:15-3:45 pm: Q&A
3:45-3:50 pm: Concluding remarks
4–5 pm: Walkthrough of the Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection exhibition
