Join us for a symposium centered on the life and works of Maynard Dixon! This symposium is free and open to everyone with bonus experiences including a special keynote dinner and an overnight retreat to the Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum in Southern Utah, open to everyone for a generous price. Keynote speakers include Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame and John Ott, Professor of Art History, James Madison University.
Program
THE WORLD OF MAYNARD DIXON · MOA Auditorium · Thursday, March 23 · 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
- Welcome to the Symposium · Janalee Emmer, Director, BYU Museum of Art
- "Men, Men, Men: Maynard Dixon's Masculinist Take on the American West" · Keynote Speaker: Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies, Notre Dame University
- "Not By the Hand of God: Maynard Dixon, Everett Thorpe, and the Mural Contest for Provo's Post Office" · James Swensen, Associate Professor of Art History, Brigham Young University
DIXON AND NATIVE PEOPLES · MOA Auditorium · Thursday, March 23 · 1:30 - 3:30 PM
- "Maynard Dixon and the Search for the 'Real' Indian" · Linda Jones Gibbs, PhD, Independent Scholar
- "Ethnographic Style and the Influence of Anthropology in the Art of Maynard Dixon" · Caroline Fernald, Executive Director, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley
- "Maynard Dixon & Glacier National Park: Blackfeet Dislocation from Sacred Landscapes" · Matthew Bowman, Univserity of Iowa
- "From Passive Presence to Active Agent: Native Women in the Paintings and Sculpture of the U.S. Department of the Interior Building" · Kelsey Gustin, PhD, Fine Arts Specialist, U.S. Fine Arts Collection, General Service Administration
DIXON, LANGE, AND HAMLIN · MOA Lecture Room · Thursday, March 23 · 3:45 - 5:15 PM
- "Dorothea Lange's Humanist Turn: Looking for the Forgotten Men" · Kenneth Hartvigsen, Assistant Professor of Art History, Brigham Young University
- "Lost and Found: Reconstructing Edith Hamlin (1902-1992)" · Betsy Fahlman, Professor of Art History, Arizona State University
- "'The Beginning of My Professional Life as a Muralist:' An Analysis of Edith Hamlin's Mission High School Murals" · Meagan Anderson Evans, PhD Candidate, University of Oklahoma
DINNER SESSION ($30/plate) · MOA Café · Thursday, March 23 · 6:00 PM
- "Man vs. Rock: Labor, Race, and Maynard Dixon's Boulder Dam Suite" · Keynote Speaker: John Ott, PhD, Professor of Art History, James Madison University
- Booking is now closed. Please email riley_lewis@byu.edu with any questions.
PICTURING THE WEST · MOA Auditorium · Friday, March 24 · 9:30-11:30 AM
- "Maynard Dixon and the Big Picture: West Coast Billboard Advertising, 1917–1921" · Hadley Jerman, Eugene B. Adkins Senior Curator at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
- "Man-Altered Landscapes: Photographs from the MOA Collection in Conversation with Maynard Dixon" · Diana Turnbow, Curatorial and Interpretive Consultant
- "The Mystery of Dixon's Cedar City Works" · Rebecca Bloom, Assistant Director, Curatorial Affairs, Southern Utah Museum of Art
- "Picturing Air: Maynard Dixon's Visualization of the Western Sky" · Jonathan Hacker, PhD Candidate, University of Oklahoma
DIXON'S POETIC IMAGINATION · MOA Auditorium · Friday, March 24 · 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
- "Maynard Dixon, Poet" · Kenneth Hartvigsen, Assistant Professor of Art History, Brigham Young University
- Original poetry readings · BYU Students
SOUTHERN UTAH RETREAT ($70) · Friday, March 24 - Saturday, March 25
- $70/person: Includes box lunch, transportation, tour and catered dinner at Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum, and entrance to Zion National Park
- Does NOT include lodging (but you can get a discounted symposium rate with this link at the Best Western East Zion Thunderbird Lodge)
- Box lunched will be served at the MOA Friday from 12:30-1:30 PM. Vans will depart at 1:30
- Vans will arrive back in Provo at about 6:00 PM on Saturday
- Booking is now closed. Please email riley_lewis@byu.edu with any questions.