MAKING THE PAST PRESENT: FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN ARTISTS’ MATERIALS AND PROCESSES IN A GLOBAL WORLD
BY DR. JOHN WITTY (NWSA 2005)
February 9; 2 PM
Miami Dade College Wolfson Auditorium
300 NE 2 Avenue, Room 1261, Miami
Free and open to the public
| Artists, Scholars & Curators: A Lecture Series – Alumni Edition to continue this season’s lecture series with NWSA visual arts alum Dr. John Witty. Witty is an art historian who specializes in late medieval and early Renaissance Italian art. After obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Washington University in St. Louis, John completed a PhD focused on Venetian fourteenth-century painting at Emory University. He has worked as an intern and curatorial fellow at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Frick Collection in New York City. Witty co-curated an exhibition on the fourteenth-century artist Paolo Veneziano that was on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in the summer of 2021. He has curated other exhibitions for New World School of the Arts’ Artseen gallery (2012) and the Bascom Art Center in Highlands, North Carolina (2018), as well as a booth at the Spring Break Art Fair in New York City (2021). He currently teaches Honors and AP Art History at Miami’s Design and Architecture Senior High School (DASH). The lecture will conclude with a Q&A session allowing for the students and general audience to engage in conversation with the artist and scholar. |
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