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SEMESTER TWO:


Week One- SoFA Yahoo website re-activated
SoFA has re-activated it's Yahoo website and changed it to allow SoFA members to post their own messages which will be emailed to all members. This will make it easier to communicate to other members and share your thoughts on art exhibitions or events that you have seen. Posts informing all members on updates and events will be made frequently.


Week Two, Thursday 3rd August - SoFA Meeting
SoFA executives will be meeting at 10am at Wordsworth café at University of Queensland to discuss plans for the semester. All are welcome. Those who are interested in becoming SoFA executives are especially encouraged to attend.


Week Three, Thursday 10th August - SoFA BBQ
On Thursday 10th August at 2pm SoFA will be holding a BBQ which will be located outside of the University Art Museum. Food and drinks will be free for members. Come and mingle with other members and lecturers. Also this is an perfect opportunity to become a member or buy an arts card which is $4 for members and $10 for non-members.


Week Three, Sunday 13th August - SoFA at the Brisbane Film Festival
SoFA will be seeing two art documentaries featuring at the Brisbane Film Festival. All are welcome to join us and SoFA members will receive a free beer afterwards. The details of the art documentaries are as follows:

  • Who Gets to Call it Art? :: A visual scrapbook of the 1960s pop art scene in New York, as seen through the eyes of legendary Met. Curator Henry Geldzahler, who not only shaped the museum's future exhibition program but also changed the artworld's view of art and created controversy over tis exclusion of women and ethnic artists. Featuring a 'Who's Who' of abstract expressionist and pop art - Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Larry Poons, David Hockney, Mark Di Suvero and others - the film is a wild ride through a politically brash and outrageous era.

  • Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet :: This is the first feature-length documentary on the American sculptor Richard Serra, who is best known for his large scale, minimalist sculptures made of sheets and rolls of steel. Maria Ann Tappenheimer observes the development of his work 'The Matter of Time', a $20 million commission from the Guggenheim Museum Bibao. Extensive interviews with Serra are complemented by a guilded tour through his working spaces and the actual construction of the work, as well as interviews with other art world figures including Philip Glass.

  • Who Gets to Call it Art?: 10:00 - 11:52am, South Bank - Cinema 4 (Grey Street, South Bank) :: $12.50 for single ticket

  • Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet: 12:10 - 2:07pm, South Bank - Cinema 4 (Grey Street, South Bank) :: $12.50 for single ticket




    Unpacking the work of Whistler: the techniques and influences behind the artist's prints - Thursday 7th September @ 1pm at The James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre, The University of Queensland, University Drive, St Lucia.
    Curator and writer Anne Kirker and printmaker Suzanne Danaher will give a guided tour of An artist abroad: the prints of James McNeill Whistler, the National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition showing at the University Art Museum until the 1st of October. The speakers will discuss Whistler’s printing techniques, influences and contribution to realism, Japonisme and modernism.

    Anne Kirker is an independent art consultant, curator and writer. She trained in Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and later gained a Master of Arts (in art history) at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Aside from an expertise in works on paper, British art of the early twentieth century and contemporary developments in the visual arts generally are her special fields of interest. She has written extensively on art (publishing articles in Australian journals) and is the author of the influential book New Zealand women artists: a survey of 150 years (Craftsman House, 1993).

    Suzanne Danaher is a Queensland-based artist who specialises in printmaking. Her work is held in numerous major Australian and International collections such as the National Gallery of Australia. She was awarded a highly commended in the Theiss Art Prize for her suite of prints Continuum, and in 2001 won an award for her print Idiot in our Midst an acquisition at CPM Murwillumbah NSW. She has completed a Master of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art. In 2006 Suzanne was appointed visiting lecturer at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Southbank.

    AUGUST (TBA) - 'We need to talk' at the Institute of Modern Art.
    There will be a number of talks given by artists at the IMA. SoFA wants to encourage art history students to attend these talks and will be organising a chance to meet after the talks and chat. Free beer for SoFA members.

    AUGUST (TBA) - 'Art History Honours Dinner' @ the UQ pizza cafe
    Join lecturer Rex Butler, current and graduate art history honours students for a pizza dinner and learn all you need to know about studying honurs in art history. Pizza is free for SoFa members and $3 for non-members. Membership will be $4 (including arts card) for the day. RSVP is essential for dinner bookings.

    SEPTEMBER (TBA) - Visual Art student talks at UQ
    A series of talks presented by visual art students from QCA and QUT that will introduce the main concepts involved in each student's art practice. These talks will not only give the opportunity for UQ art history students to meet and network with aspiring and emerging artists but also assist them with learning about processes involved in making, presenting, thinking and discussing art from the perspective of an visual art student. Developing long term contacts and opportunities outside of the institution will be encouraged. Speakers will be announced soon.


    OCTOBER (TBA) - 'Favourites' at the QUT Art Museum.
    'Favourites' is a two part series of talks given by professionals in the art industry. Each speaker will be informally discussing an artist, art work or art related concept that they positively or negatively respond to and has left an lasting impression on them. These talks will be relaxed in structure and will emphasis the personal attachment or response the speakers have to art. These talks will not only assist art history students with learning about art and artists but also, when learning about the speakers' experiences and seeing how art can excite and inspire or create great frustration, encourage them to think about art in a personal sense as something ultimately personally involving. Speakers will be announced soon.

    OCTOBER (TBA) - Art Gallery Tour
    SoFA will be organising a tour of a number of galleries in Brisbane. This tour will most likely coincide with a gallery opening in the evening. Free coffee for SoFA members when we stop for a coffee break and chat about the art seen on the tour.


    OCTOBER (TBA) - End of Year Party
    There will be an end of year party for SoFA at the Redroom, UQ. Free pizza for members.




    Semester One:


    Week Three (TBA) - SoFA Meeting
    SoFA executives will be meeting at Wordsworth café at University of Queensland to discuss plans for the semester. All are welcome. Those who are interested in becoming SoFA executives are especially encouraged to attend.


    Tuesday 21st March - University Art Museum at 12noon, free lunchtime talk by Angela Goddard, Program Officer (Regional Services), Queensland Art Gallery.
    Angela will speak about developing exhibitions of works from Queensland Art Gallery collection to tour regional galleries in Queensland. A former UQ Art History student, Angela began at the Queensland Art Gallery as a volunteer, a trainee and later Curatorial Assistant in Australian Art. Her most recent project has been Queensland live; contemporary art on tour, which has just opened at the Galdstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum (http:www.qag.gov.au/qldlive).

    SoFA supports the free lunchtime talks at the UAM as we see it to be a great opportunity to hear professionals, that are Art History graduates from UQ, talk about their experiences. Along with attending the talks, SoFA will also be providing refreshments and encourage students to discuss amoungst eachother about the talk.


    Tuesday 28th March - University Art Museum at 12noon, free lunchtime talk by Sarah Follent, Editor, 'Eyeline' magazine.
    UQ Art History graduate Sarah Follent initially worked at Griffith Artworks, Griffith University, and was Queensland Art Critic for 'The Australian' from 1981 to 1987. She has edited the Brisbane-based contemporary art magazine 'Eyeline' since it first appeared in 1987. She will speak about her experiences in art writing and publishing, and will offer advice about how to start writing and get published.

    SoFA supports the free lunchtime talks at the UAM as we see it is a great opportunity to hear professionals, that are Art History graduates from UQ, talk about their experiences. Along with attending the talks, SoFA will also be providing refreshments and encourage students to discuss amoungst eachother about the talk.


    Saturday 1st April, 2006 - A free group tour of 'Margaret Preston: Art and Life' and 'Grace Cossington Smith: A Retrospective Exhibition' at Queensland Art Gallery.
    SoFA decided to take advantage of the free entry granted to tertiary students on this one day and will organise a group tour of these exhibitions featuring two prominent Australian artists. So join the tour with other SoFA members and enjoy and free coffee afterwards. Please RVSP by emailing uqsofa@uq.edu.au.


    Tuesday 11th April, 2006 - University Art Museum at 12noon, free lunchtime talk by Elizabeth Bates, Learning and Outreach Programs Officer, Museum of Brisbane.
    UQ Art History graduate and form Education Officer at the Queensland Art Gallery, Elizabeth will talk about her work as a Learning and Outreach Programs Officer at the Museum of Brisbane, and explain how she reaches and inspires new audiences through MoB's education and outreach programs.

    SoFA supports the free lunchtime talks at the UAM as it is a great opportunity to hear professionals, that are Art History graduates from UQ, talk about their experiences. Along with attending the talks, SoFA will also be providing refreshments and encourage students to discuss amoungst eachother about the talk.




    Tuesday 11th April, 2006 - University Art Museum at 12noon, free lunchtime talk by Elizabeth Bates, Learning and Outreach Programs Officer, Museum of Brisbane.
    UQ Art History graduate and form Education Officer at the Queensland Art Gallery, Elizabeth will talk about her work as a Learning and Outreach Programs Officer at the Museum of Brisbane, and explain how she reaches and inspires new audiences through MoB's education and outreach programs.

    SoFA supports the free lunchtime talks at the UAM as it is a great opportunity to hear professionals, that are Art History graduates from UQ, talk about their experiences. Along with attending the talks, SoFA will also be providing refreshments and encourage students to discuss amoungst eachother about the talk.


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