Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lecture Series

The Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectureship, established and endowed by the late Janeth Hogue-Sponenburgh and Mark Sponenburgh, enables the Willamette University Departments of Art and Art History to bring a noted scholar, artist, critic, curator, or leader in the visual arts to campus each year to deliver a public lecture and to meet informally with students and faculty. The Sponenburghs were also the generous donors of a collection of more than 200 historical art objects representing five cultural areas worldwide, which the University received in 1990. The donation of this collection was instrumental in forming a foundation for the establishment of Willamette's Hallie Ford Museum of Art, which opened in the fall of 1998. Since 2011, the annual Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectureship has been organized in alternate years by the Department of Art (Studio) and the Department of Art History.

Past Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lectures

2016

Professor Alessandro Nova

Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institute im Florenz

‘La dolce morte’: Leonardo’s Anatomical Drawings and the Cognitive Value of Images

2014

Adam Stennett

Conceptual Artist, Brooklyn, New York

Keep Making Art

2014

Patricia Berger

Professor of Chinese Art History, University of California, Berkeley

Transplanting China on the Global Stage

2013

Myra Greene

Associate Professor of Photography, Columbia College Chicago

My White Friends

2011

George Baker

Associate Professor of Art History, University of California

Paul Thek: Notes from the Underground

2010

Alexander Nagel

Professor of Fine Arts, New York University

Orientations in Renaissance Art

2008

Ellen Dissanayake

Affiliate Professor at the School of Music, University of Washington

The Deep Structure of the Arts

2007

Suzanne Folds McCullagh

Curator of Earlier Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago

Leading Ladies with an Eye: Three Generations of Drawing Collectors in Chicago

2006

Dean Porter

Artist, Author, Director Emeritus of Snite Museum of Art at University of Notre Dame

The Rise and Fall of the Taos Society of Artists

2005

Shelby Lee Adams

Documentary Photographer

Appalachian Lives

2003

Fred Wilson

Conceptual Artist

The Silent Message of the Museum

2002

A.D. Coleman

Photography critic, media commentator and educator

Potlatch, Auction and the In-Between: Digital Art and Digital Audiences

2002

Kent R. Weeks

Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo

At Death's Door: The Future of Egypt's Valley of the Kings

2000

David C. Driskell

Distinguished University Professor of art emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park

The African American Continuum: An Historical Overview

1998

James Cuno

Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums

To Instruct and Delight: Art Museums at the Turn of the Millennium

1997

H. Alan Shapiro

Professor of classics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

The Art of Democracy in Classical Athens

1997

Jaroslav Folda

N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the history of art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

What is Crusader Art?

1996

Lucy Lippard

Educator, writer and activist

The Lure of the Local

1995

Gordon Gilkey

Educator, printmaker, print collector, curator and arts advocate in Oregon

The 20th Century Contribution to the History of Art

1994

Marcia Tucker

Founder and director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art

Art in Extremis

1993

Alan Trachtenberg

The Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University

Street Theater: Helen Levitt and American Urban Photography

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Art History

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