Leslie Humanities Center Institute 2010:
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Call for External Fellows

Multiple Narratives in Plains Indian ledger Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection

Fall Term 2010

Part-time Fellowships

The Leslie Center is offering five fellowships for Dartmouth faculty to participate in a Humanities Center Institute devoted to the study of the Mark Lansburgh collection of Plains Indian art, which was acquired by the College in 2007. Comprising more than one hundred nineteenth-century drawings and including works by important artists such as Howling Wolf, Chief Killer, and Frank Henderson, the Lansburgh collection is one of the most important ledger art collections in existence. The core of the Institute will be a weekly seminar, held on Friday afternoons and directed by Joyce M. Szabo of the University of New Mexico. The Institute will run concurrently with a major exhibition of the collection at the Hood Museum of Art. Joe D. Horse Capture, Associate Curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, will serve as guest curator of the exhibit.

The Dartmouth fellows will have on-line access to the drawings, will have the opportunity to study the drawings first-hand, will attend all public presentations, and will participate fully in the weekly seminars.

The Leslie Center will provide an stipend of $2,000. Please direct inquiries to the Institute director: COLIN.CALLOWAY@DARTMOUTH.EDU.