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...something I enjoyed and that became the main thing that I do.” During the 1970s, at the onset of Cotter’s journalistic career, most articles about non-western art centered on their sale value and not on their merit, according to Suzanne P. Blier, a professor of fine art and African and African American studies. Cotter became known for his articles covering non-western art forms in a serious and intellectual manner, she said. “He’s a man of extraordinary brilliance and compassion with an intellectual wingspan that covers...
...stand up to a fire, stand up to a smoldering bed of embers,” Hoy said. Hoy found a similar strength in her teachers, most of whom had been either abandoned by their husbands for other women or widowed due to HIV. According to Suzanne P. Blier, Professor of Fine Art and African and African American Studies, in many African communities pottery is an art commonly associated with women. Hoy’s group of teachers formed a collective of sorts, each individual sharing the responsibilities of many subsistence activities and often finding ways to help the community...
...College, I deliberately wanted to overcome the transportation issues of large pieces,” she explained. “The walls of pieces don’t have to be that thick. I used a ‘pull and pinch’ method.” Professor Blier then focused on Odundo’s work in the context of African art’s importance to the Western world. “To me, one of the reasons I love African art is because the primacy of sculpture,” she said...
...It’s really a golden age in African art history,” says professor Suzanne Blier, who spearheaded the two-day conference “New Geographies of Contemporary African Art.” The conference, which seeks to create a dialogue about the evolving role of contemporary African art, is presented by the Committee on African Studies as a part of Harvard’s larger Africa Initiative. It will take place today and tomorrow at the Center for Government and International Studies.Blier, who is on the faculty of the African and African American Studies Department...
...American Society of Landscape Architects yesterday awarded two Graduate School of Design faculty members with Excellence in General Design, the highest award the society bestows. Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Michael Van Valkenburgh and Design Critic in Landscape Architectire Michael J. Blier each coordinated projects with their design firms to win the two awards of excellence. The recipients were selected from a pool of 500 nominees. Van Valkenburgh and his firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, are receiving the award for a seven-year landscaping plan at Wellesley College. The firm is in the midst of redesigning 13.5 acres...