The Princeton University Art Museum is building a bold and welcoming new building, designed by the world-renowned Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye and planned to open in Fall 2024. Just as an interest in contemporary life sent the plein air painters of the 19th century into the countryside to develop new painting techniques and experiment with new ways of seeing, contemporary concerns and values shape the curatorial vision for the new building. Important landscape painters—from Robert Duncanson, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Sisley, to Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Josephine Meckseper—will be presented in new ways that cross media, cultures, and time. In this talk, Juliana Ochs Dweck, Chief Curator at the Princeton University Art Museum, will describe the boundary-crossing plans for the future collections galleries.

ABOUT Juliana Ochs Dweck Plein Air Plus, Juror
Juliana Ochs Dweck is chief curator at the Princeton University Art Museum. At Princeton, the exhibitions she curated and organized include Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States (2019), Time Capsule 1970: Rauschenberg’s Currents (2019), Picturing Protest (2018), Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton (2016), and By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War (2016). Dweck’s career spans art, history, and identity museums, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. An anthropologist BA Yale University, PhD University of Cambridge, she is the author of Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel (Penn Press, 2011), and has written about materiality, memory, and museum practice.

Join Mike of Howling Woods, a non-profit rescue in Jackson, NJ for a family-oriented presentation and a “Meet & Greet” with wolf dogs who reside on the farm!

LBIF Members FREE, $10 fee for nonmembers payable at the door.

Jessica Todd Smith will explore how 20th-century American artists responded to, and sometimes upended, long-held traditions in portraiture. Pushing at the boundaries of convention, they found new and exciting ways to explore identity and to commemorate individuals, keeping them live in memory.The talk will include paintings from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  

ABOUT Jessica Todd Smith, Unmasked Juror
Dr. Jessica Todd Smith is the Susan Gray Detweiler Curator of American Art and Manager of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Recent projects include the exhibitions Painting Identity; Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century; and Modern Times: American Art 1910-1950, which was accompanied by the book American Modernism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art on the Edge & Over, and In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art.

Prior to her arrival at the PMA in 2016, she was the Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. At The Huntington, Smith worked on three major expansions of the American galleries, in addition to exhibitions, publications, and collection development. She earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Yale University. 

This workshop is designed to reacquaint participants with the twin features of temperature that account for life on Earth- its extraordinary diversity and dynamism. This workshop evokes appreciation for these wondrous realities by inviting participants to engage with fire (via matches) and ice (via ice cubes). We will explore how these intimate interactions apply to climate change on a global scale. Pre-registration required. 

$10 / Members Free

This illustrated talk will provide evidence of the functional interdependence and aesthetic correspondence with the site that such design principles strive to achieve. It will also describe the emotional fulfillment afforded by cultivating rapport with the environs, a source of gratification that human-centered design typically lacks. My engagement with biophilic design principles extends beyond these architectural and landscaping ventures. They also inspire my homesteading practices, my curating, art-making, and writing. Indeed, they provide the ethical foundation for all my beliefs and behaviors.

ABOUT Linda Weintraub Elemental Effects Juror
Linda Weintraub practices eco art as an author, educator, curator, practitioner, and homesteader. Throughout her career she has championed the outposts of vanguard experimentation in the arts as they have evolved over the decades. Weintraub has curated over fifty exhibitions. She is the author of innumerable essays and several books exploring contemporary art and ecology. They include WHAT’s NEXT? Eco Materialism &  Contemporary Art (2018), To LIFE! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet (2012), and Avant-Guardians (2007), a series of textlets titled “EcoCentric Topics: Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art”; “Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art;” “EnvironMentalities: Twenty-two Approaches to Eco-Art”. Additionally, she is the author of such popular books as Art on the Edge & Over, and In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art.