Profs and Pints Meetup-Metro DC

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Painting’s Pioneering Women,” on female artists who overcame barriers and changed their field, with Paloma Vianey, lecturer in George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.

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Introductory art history courses tend to give short shrift to women, a legacy of the many centuries in which art collections disproportionately featured the works of men.

As a studio arts teacher, acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Paloma Vianey has sought to remedy that imbalance, teaching students about the lives and work of inspiring women artists while also encouraging them to observe artwork from the painters’ perspectives.

Join Vianey at Washington D.C.’s Penn Social for a look at the struggles and cultural contributions of women artists and how they have used painting as a tool for expression and healing.

She’ll discuss why learning about the contributions of women is imperative to understanding the field of painting and movements such as impressionism, surrealism, and conceptual art. She’ll dive into the lives and works of fifteen female artists who have had a huge impact in the last four centuries, describing how they created their images and changed their field.

Among the women you’ll learn about: Aurora Reyes, a poet regarded as the first Mexican muralist, who drew upon her impoverished upbringing to give her murals authenticity. Clara Peeters, a seventeenth-century artist who came to be regarded as a master in the nearly all-male field of still-life painting and took the brave step of incorporating self-portraits into her depictions of vases, goblets, and food. Emily Carr, who eschewed the traditional life she’d been expected to lead in the Victorian era to instead spend her life single and using painting to document the lives of Aboriginal villages.

Other artists who will be covered in the talk include surrealist Remedios Varo, conceptual artist Agnes Martin, modern artist Hilma af Klint, and Native American collage artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

You’ll learn how the field of Art History is being revised to give female artists their due and how contemporary art museums are emphasizing more of their work. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)

Image: A 1787 painting by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Becoming a Better Ally,” on research-backed ways to effectively advocate for marginalized populations, with Hannah Snidman, assistant professor of psychology at Marymount University and director of a Marymount lab focused on allyship, social justice, activism, gender, and equity.

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Marginalized groups are under extreme pressure in today’s political climate, yet some who seek to come to their defense may unintentionally be causing further harm.

Learn how you can become a better ally to those who face oppression due to gender, race, ethnicity, or other factors with Hannah Snidman, a psychologist whose research focuses on allyship and the experiences of gender minority members.

Professor Snidman will give her audience a basic understanding of Minority Stress Theory, which explains how unique stressors experienced by members of marginalized groups often lead to disparities in areas such as mental and physical health, substance use, and healthcare utilization.

She’ll discuss research on how effective allyship can reduce prejudice toward marginalized people and serve as a buffer against the stresses it causes. Focusing especially on the transgender population, she’ll describe research showing how would-be allies can unintentionally cause harm by, for example, invalidating perspectives or failing to follow through on promises.

The talk will look at future directions in allyship research, including on best practices for helping immigrant communities. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)

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Profs and Pints DC presents: “Deer to Us,” on more than 12,000 years of interactions between eastern North America’s white-tailed deer and human residents, with Elic Weitzel, former postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor of anthropology at George Mason University.

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Given their abundance in our backyards and along highway corridors, few people today would suspect that white-tailed deer were on the verge of extinction at the turn of the 20th century mainly as a result of commercial hunting.

Learn about the complicated, centuries-old relationship between deer and people in our region with Elic Weitzel, who has spent the last decade studying the historical ecology of white-tailed deer and other species.

He’ll tell the story of our white-tail deer from prehistoric abundance to steady decline from the colonial era deerskin trade to resurgence under the modern conservation movement.

Combining evidence from archaeological excavations, historical sources, and contemporary conservation biology, Dr. Weitzel will describe how Native Americans hunted and managed deer for millennia and he’ll discuss the reasons why this pre-colonial hunting may have been relatively sustainable.

He’ll talk about how deer populations began to decline after the arrival of Europeans on our continent, and he’ll discuss the role that the deerskin trade and market economics played. Finally, he’ll look at how conservation efforts in the 20th century led to the recovery of deer and to the (sometimes problematic) abundance we see today.

You’ll learn lessons from the past that can help us better understand and promote sustainability in the present and future. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)

Image: A white-tailed deer. (Photo by Roy Smith / Wikimedia Commons.)

Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: “Painting’s Pioneering Women,” on female artists who overcame barriers and changed their field, with Paloma Vianey, lecturer in George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.

[Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-painting-women .]

Introductory art history courses tend to give short shrift to women, a legacy of the many centuries in which art collections disproportionately featured the works of men.

As a studio arts teacher, acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Paloma Vianey has sought to remedy that imbalance, teaching students about the lives and work of inspiring women artists while also encouraging them to observe artwork from the painters’ perspectives.

Join Vianey at Washington D.C.’s Penn Social for a look at the struggles and cultural contributions of women artists and how they have used painting as a tool for expression and healing.

She’ll discuss why learning about the contributions of women is imperative to understanding the field of painting and movements such as impressionism, surrealism, and conceptual art. She’ll dive into the lives and works of fifteen female artists who have had a huge impact in the last four centuries, describing how they created their images and changed their field.

Among the women you’ll learn about: Aurora Reyes, a poet regarded as the first Mexican muralist, who drew upon her impoverished upbringing to give her murals authenticity. Clara Peeters, a seventeenth-century artist who came to be regarded as a master in the nearly all-male field of still-life painting and took the brave step of incorporating self-portraits into her depictions of vases, goblets, and food. Emily Carr, who eschewed the traditional life she’d been expected to lead in the Victorian era to instead spend her life single and using painting to document the lives of Aboriginal villages.

Other artists who will be covered in the talk include surrealist Remedios Varo, conceptual artist Agnes Martin, modern artist Hilma af Klint, and Native American collage artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

You’ll learn how the field of Art History is being revised to give female artists their due and how contemporary art museums are emphasizing more of their work. (Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)

Image: A 1787 painting by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.