20.12.2021, 14h30, 16h00 (Museu da FBAUP)
Deanna Petherbridge CBE is an artist, writer and curator. Petherbridge’s practice is drawing-based, although she has also produced large-scale murals and designed for the theatre. Her publications in the area of art and architecture are concerned with contemporary as well as historical matters, and in latter years she has concentrated on writing about drawing. The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice was published June 2010 and curated exhibitions include The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy, 1997, Witches and Wicked Bodies, 2013.
Appointed Associate Fellow, the Warburg Institute, University of London, 2019, Appointed Inaugural Research Fellow, The Menil Drawing Institute, The Menil Collection, Houston 2020
Gemma Anderson is an artist and researcher based at the University of Exeter. Together with John Dupré, author of numerous titles on the philosophy of science, and James Wakefield, a cell-biologist, she is investigating novel image-making practices to provide more intuitively dynamic representations of living systems through an innovative collaboration between art, biology and philosophy.
To promote collaborative drawing projects, Anderson is working with and developing a network of drawing practitioners including mathematicians, artists, geologists, zoologists and choreographers at Imperial College, the Natural History Museum, Falmouth University, University College London and the University of Exeter.
Seymour Simmons III recently retired as Professor of Fine Arts from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC where he taught drawing and art education. At Harvard Graduate School of Education, his doctoral thesis was on the history and philosophy of drawing instruction from ancient times to the present. While at Harvard, he also did research on arts education at Project Zero (HPZ) under the direction of Dr. Howard Gardner. Since then, his research has focused on drawing and the development of imagination as well as geometric reasoning, plus drawing’s relationship to Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
His most recent book is: The Value of Drawing Instruction in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula: Philosophical and Historical Arguments for Drawing in the Digital Age. (Routledge, 2021).
PROGRAM
14:30 – Welcoming remarks and general presentation of the project
14:40 – Deanna Petherbridge, “Drawing as Empowerment”.
14:50 – Gemma Anderson, “Drawing as a way of knowing in Art and Science”.
15:10 – Seymour Simmons, “The Value of Teaching Drawing in the Visual Arts and Through Curriculum: Historical and Philosophical Arguments for Drawing in the Digital Age”.
15:40 – Presentation of team members and research areas.
15:55 – Presentation of the research exhibition catalogue “Seeing, Wanting to See, Showing – Drawing between Borders at the University of Porto”
16:00 – Closing of the public meeting.
With: Deanna Petherbridge (Artist, Professor Emeritus, University of the West of England, Bristol) | Gemma Anderson (Artist, University of Exeter) | Seymour Simmons (Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus, Winthrop University) | Mário Bismarck (i2ADS-FBAUP), Cláudia Amandi (i2ADS-FBAUP), Flávia Costa (i2ADS), J. Jorge Marques (i2ADS-FBAUP), Maria Helena Matos (CMUP-FCUP), Maria Manuela Lopes (i3S), Paulo Luís Almeida (i2ADS-FBAUP), Pedro Alegria (i2ADS), Sílvia Simões (i2ADS-FBAUP), Vasco Cardoso (i2ADS-FBAUP), Vítor Silva (i2ADS-FAUP).
