PLEASE NOTE that all events with asterisks before them are only for speakers presenting at the conference. For example, events on “Day Zero” are only for conference speakers. Day delegates are welcome to all other events. The two plenary lectures are free and open to anyone.
All meetings will take place in the lower ground floor of the Rothermere American Institute unless indicated otherwise.
For those staying at St. Anne’s College, breakfast will be served in the Dining Hall from 8.00-9.00. Check in time is from 13.00, check out by 10.00. Luggage may be left at the Porters’ Lodge on request (24 hours).
*Day ZERO: Tuesday 25 June 2019
* 17.30-18.30 Registration for Speakers, St. Anne’s Lodge
*18.30 Informal Drinks for Panellists & Speakers, The Royal Oak
Day ONE: Wednesday 26 June 2019
9.00–9.30 Registration for Delegates
9.30-10.30 Panels
Towards Cultural Democracy?: Corporate Patronage and State-Sponsored Culture, from the New Deal to the Cold War Era, Garden Room
Chair: A. Deirdre Robson, University of West London
Isadora Helfgott, University of Wyoming
‘‘New Worlds to Conquer’: The Genesis of Corporate Patronage for Art in the United States’
Jody Patterson, Plymouth University
‘“Point of Promise and of Danger”: American Art and Cultural Democracy at Mid-Century’
New Perspectives on the Culture Wars: Budgetary Battles and AIDS Arts Activism in Reagan’s America, Seminar Room
Chair: Emma Day, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Karen Patricia Heath, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
‘Reagan Revolution Rescinded: How the NEA Survived Supply-Side Economics in the 1980s’
Jessica Wallace, Trinity College, University of Oxford
‘Obstructed Artistic Autonomy in Artistic AIDS Activism: A Microcosm of Federal Response to the Crisis’
10.30-10.45 Tea & Coffee Break
10.45–12.15 Panels
Gamers, Gatekeepers, and Guidelines: Steering Federal Funding Toward Complex Ends, Garden Room
Chair: Dana Mills, Historian and Activist
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, University of Texas, Austin
‘Networking Legacies and Outcomes: the NEA, the NPN, and the Quest for Equitable Arts Support Systems’
Sarah Wilbur, Duke University
‘Bureaucratic Angling, Institutional Activism: The NEA Dance Program’s Covert “Culture Wars”’
Colleen Hooper, Point Park University
‘Among a Constellation of Arts Resources: The Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) 1974-1982’
Fundraising, Propaganda, and the Artistic Limitations of the Warfare State, Seminar Room
Chair: Alice Kelly, Rothermere American Institute and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Austin Porter, Kenyon College
‘The War in Museums: the U.S. Treasury Department’s Art Exhibitions, 1942-45’
M. Alison Reilly, Florida State University
‘Photography in the Service of America: The U.S. Government as Patron of the Arts at MoMA During World War II’
Kelvin Parnell Jr., University of Virginia
‘Presidential Patronage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Selma Burke’s Four Freedoms’
12.15–13.00 Lunch, including Tea & Coffee
13.00-14.30 Assessing Cultural Diplomacy Today: Views from Practitioners, Lecture Hall
Chaired by Amanda Niedfeldt, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Courtney Austrian, Minister Counselor for Public Affairs, Embassy of the United States of America, London
Angela Emmerson, United States Development Advisor, The British Library, London
Richard Wendorf, Director, American Museum & Gardens, Calverton Manor, near Bath
NB Chatham House Rule
14.30-15.00 Tea & Coffee Break
15.00-16.30 Plenary, Lecture Hall
Chaired by Karen Patricia Heath, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
John R. Blakinger, Terra Visiting Professor of American Art, University of Oxford
‘“To Remain Silent is to be Complicit”: Arts Funding in the Trump Era’
17.00 Informal Drinks, The University Club
*19.00 Dinner for Panellists & Speakers, Mamma Mia
Day TWO: Thursday 27 June 2019
9.15–10.15 Panels
Culture War/Cold War: Poetic Politics and Literary Funding at Home and Abroad, Garden Room
Chair: Tessa Roynon, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Lisa Szefel, Pacific University
‘The First Culture War: A Prize to Ezra Pound, Treason, and the Fight for Democracy’
Amanda Niedfeldt, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
‘Writing on the Wall: Public-Private Patronage and Writers in Berlin during the 1960s’
Inside, Outside, and Beyond the Bureaucracy: Creative Expression, Artistic Need, and Democratic Principles in the Long Great Society Era, Seminar Room
Chair: Gareth Davies, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Jamin An, University of California, Los Angeles
‘“A Shot in the Arm for the Arts”: Henry Geldzahler and the Beginnings of the NEA Visual Arts Program’
James R. Swensen, Brigham Young University
‘‘A Most Vital Lifeblood’: The National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, and the Formation of a New Golden Age of Photography’
10.15-10.30 Tea & Coffee Break
10.30-12.15 Panels
Founders, Funders, and Fiscal Crises: Private Philanthropy and Public Funding In and Around New York City, Garden Room
Chair: H. Horatio Joyce, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Pollyanna Rhee, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
‘Assimilation and Uplift?: Local Arts Patronage and the Carnegie Corporation of New York’
Natalie A. Mault Mead, Hunter Museum of American Art
‘Money, You’ve Got Lots of Friends’: Patronage During the Harlem Renaissance’
Christopher Ketcham, independent scholar
‘Speculations in Real Estate and Sculpture: Arts Patronage and Spatial Authority in New York City after John V. Lindsay’
Pauline Chevalier, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris; Université de Bourgogne
‘Funding the Alternative: the NEA and New York Alternative Art Spaces (1969-1976)’
From Conservative Beginnings to Progressive Ends and Back Again: The Promises and Pitfalls of Public/Private Collaborative Investments, Seminar Room
Chair: Karen Patricia Heath, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Charlotte Canning, University of Texas at Austin
‘HemisFair68, The Arts Patronage of Foreign Policy and Business’
Derek Miller, Harvard University
‘The Shubert Foundation, or The IRS as Theatre Patron’
Diana Benea, University of Bucharest
‘“Emphasizing Artistry without Sacrificing Business”: Ping Chong + Company’s Undesirable Elements Series (1992-) and the Challenges of Funding for Contemporary American Community-Based Theater’
Kristin Leahey, Boston University
‘Four of the Many Signs of Change in the US Nonprofit Theatre – 2019’
12.15-13.00 Lunch, including Tea & Coffee
13.00–14.30 Panels
Transmissions: Cultural Sponsorship, Cultural Diplomacy, and Cultural Criticisms, From, To, and Inside the USA, Garden Room
Chaired by Amanda Niedfeldt, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Matteo Pretelli, University of Naples “L ‘Orientale”
‘Olivetti, Cultural Sponsorship, and the United States’
Isabel Lee-Rosson, Talley Dunn Gallery
‘Soft Power, International Funding, and Complexities of Contemporary Art from Lebanon ca 1970’
Lorinda Roorda Bradley, University of Missouri-Columbia
‘An American Revolution: Information Exchange and Cultural Diplomacy in the Work of Charles and Ray Eames’
Solving Old Budgetary Problems with New Fundraising Techniques: Crowdfunding in an Age of Culture War, Seminar Room
Chair: Kamila Nigmatulina, Saïd Business School and Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Hunter Kennedy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
‘Democratizing Arts Patronage: Crowdfunding as a Response to Institutional Funding Controversies’
Jo Ann Oravec, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, University of Wisconsin – Madison
‘Crowdfunding, Philanthropy, and the Rhetoric of Public Support for the Arts: Democratization, Datafication, or Government Defunding?’
Monica Steinberg, University of Hong Kong
‘Art Provoking Policy: Semiotic Disobedience and Conscientious Law-Breaking’
14.30-15.00 Tea & Coffee Break
15.00-16.30 Plenary, Lecture Hall
Chaired by Karen Patricia Heath, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Mary Anne Goley, Founding Director of the Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve Board
‘Playing by the Rules, How I Directed the Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve Board, 1975 thru 2006’
17.00 Informal Drinks, The University Club
*19.00 Dinner for Panellists & Speakers, Browns
Day THREE: Friday 28 June 2019
9.15-10.45 Panels
Cities, Culture, and Cultural Capital: Experimentation, Transformation, and New Funding Models, Garden Room
Chair: Franziska Wilmsen, Loughborough University
Barbara Jaffee, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
‘Timely Interventions: Government Patronage and Experimental Art in Chicago’
Paola Francisquini, Annex B
‘Redefining Philanthropy: A Study on Cultural Capital, Activist Grant-Making and Disrupting the Narrative’
Winter Phong, Texas Tech University
‘Municipal Arts and Culture Funding Models: A Look at Four American Cities’
Depicting America and Americans: Murals and Memorials in the New Deal Era, Seminar Room
Chair: Rachel Sanders, City Literary Institute, London
Abby Eron, University of Maryland
‘Private Patronage in the New Deal Era: The Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial’
Ellen E. Adams, Frederik J. Meijer Honors College
‘Cultural Patronage in the New Deal: Georgette Seabrooke and the Harlem Hospital Murals’
Emily S. Warner, University College London
‘Picturing the Public: Patronage and Style in New Deal Murals’
10.45-11.15 Tea & Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Panels
Donors and Donations in the 21st Century: Private/Public Partnerships in the Gallery and the Museum, Garden Room
Chair: Lucy Shaw, Programmes and Partnerships, Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM), Oxford Cultural Leaders, and Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Mary Lee Corlett, National Gallery of Art
‘Full Circle: The Private/Public Partnership of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States Project’
Wiebke Kartheus, University of Göttingen
‘Facilities That Carry Your Name: How Art Museum Architecture Reflects Patrons’ Influence on Culture: Notes from the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Pérez Art Museum’
Rethinking Cold War Cultural Diplomacy: Matronage, Patronage, and Public/Private Cooperations, Seminar Room
Chair: Todd Carter, University College, University of Oxford
Camelia Lenart, University at Albany
‘The Tale of Two Eleanors and Cold War Arts’ Patronage: Martha Graham’s Collaboration with Eleanor Roosevelt and Eleanor Lansing Dulles in the Making of American Cultural Diplomacy’
Diana Stelowska-Morgulec, University of Warsaw,
‘American Arts Diplomacy towards Poland: Does it still exist?’
12.45–13.30 Lunch, including Tea & Coffee
*14.00–16.30 Excursion for Panellists & Speakers,
Tour of the Oxford Playhouse followed by Activities at the Ashmolean Museum
*19.00 Drinks Reception St. Anne’s College (for speakers, panellists, and registered delegates)
*19.30 Closing Dinner St. Anne’s College (for speakers, panellists, and registered delegates)
Arts Patronage in Modern America 