Atelier

Columbia Global Paris Center
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Atelier highlights some of the unique discussions that take place at Reid Hall, a third space at the threshold of academia and beyond. With Atelier, we open our doors to listeners anywhere. Engaging across borders and disciplines, these conversations feature some of the people who inspire us most and explore a vast range of topics, from art and science to social justice and climate. Atelier is produced by the Columbia Global Paris Center, a Columbia University initiative housed at Reid Hall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 3d ago

    A Lineage of Black Women Artists with Kelly-Christina Grant

    Artistic influence rarely travels in straight lines. It moves through chance encounters, shared geography, oral advice passed between generations, and letters that outlast the people who wrote them. Understanding how one artist shapes another requires tracing those paths across time and place, and accepting that the connections most worth studying are often the ones history has not yet named. In this episode, art historian Kelly Christina Grant discusses her research into the relationship between Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Lois Mailou Jones, two Black women artists separated by nearly three decades but linked by a formative encounter at Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard — one of the few places during widespread segregation where Black leisure and community were possible. Grant traces how Fuller's direct encouragement to travel to Paris shaped Jones's decision to sail there in 1937, and how their correspondence continued into the 1940s, revealing a relationship built on mutual recognition rather than one-directional influence. She also situates Fuller within a broader lineage of Harlem Renaissance artists — including Aaron Douglas and Elizabeth Catlett — who drew on her early integration of Pan-African identity and narrative into sculptural form, and reflects on what the symposium revealed about the archives and materials that still remain to be examined, including diaries at the Schomburg, photographs at the Musée Rodin, and her own poetry, brought to the symposium by her grandson David Fuller. This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment. The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette Editing: Theo Albaric Music: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-Baczewska The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world. Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    A Lineage of Black Women Artists with Kelly-Christina Grant

  2. Aug 13

    The Making of a Catalogue Raisonné with Erika Schneider

    A catalogue raisonné could be considered as an act of recovery, built from scattered archives, family memory, and chance encounters. Tracking an artist's full body of work means deciding, piece by piece, whether something is destroyed or simply unlocated, and living with the uncertainty that distinction requires. In this episode, art historian Erika Schneider discusses her years-long project to build a digital catalogue raisonné of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's work, now spanning more than 265 sculptures across twenty public collections. Schneider describes mapping Fuller's life and career using ArcGIS, her method for sourcing fragmentary addresses and exhibition records in Paris, and her 2022 Panorama article examining the deletions and corrections Fuller made to her own scrapbook. She also traces the aftermath of the 1910 fire that destroyed much of Fuller's early work, including the fate of The Impenitent Thief, and reflects on her ongoing conversations with Fuller's descendants as new pieces and archives continue to surface. This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment. The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette Editing: Theo Albaric Music: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-Baczewska The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world. Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Making of a Catalogue Raisonné with Erika Schneider

  3. Aug 6

    Teaching the Overlooked with Catherine Hahn

    Art history has long organized itself around movements and groupings that determine whose work gets taught, preserved, and remembered. When the gaps in that history align with race, gender, and geography, what gets lost is structural. In this episode, artist and academic Catherine Hahn discusses how she first encountered Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller in a fifteen-minute segment of a Harlem Renaissance course at SOAS in 1993, and how that encounter eventually led her to create a dedicated undergraduate module at the University of Kent. Hahn offers a close reading of Secret Sorrow, also known as Man Eating His Heart, tracing its relationship to Stephen Crane's 1895 symbolist poem In the Desert and arguing that the story of Fuller's visit to Rodin belongs to Fuller, not to him. She also closes with an urgent note on the ongoing collapse of arts education in British universities, and what is at stake when a newly diversified curriculum is dismantled before it takes root. This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment. The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette Editing: Theo Albaric Music: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-Baczewska The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world. Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Teaching the Overlooked with Catherine Hahn

  4. Jul 30

    At the Dawn of the Harlem Renaissance with Denise Murrell

    More than a cultural flourishing, the Harlem Renaissance was a deliberate act of remaking the image of Black America at a moment when it was suppressed and rendered invisible by the mainstream art world. For the women artists at its center, that effort operated under an additional pressure: the expectation that marriage and family should take precedence over a professional artistic career. In this episode, Denise Murrell, curator-at-large at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's place at the founding of the Harlem Renaissance and the transatlantic currents that shaped her most significant works. Murrell offers close readings of Ethiopia Awakening and In Memory of Mary Turner as a Silent Protest Against Mob Violence, tracing their formal debt to Rodin and their engagement with the aesthetics of the African continent. She also reflects on why Fuller's refusal to choose between artistic vocation and family life makes her a founding figure not only in sculpture, but in the history of women's self-determination. Murrell's exhibitions include The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet to Matisse at Columbia University's Wallach Art Gallery and the Musée d'Orsay. This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment. The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette Editing: Theo Albaric Music: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-Baczewska The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world. Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    At the Dawn of the Harlem Renaissance with Denise Murrell

  5. Jul 23

    Recovering a Life's Work with Jessica Roscio & Rachel Passannante

    Museums rarely build a permanent space around a single artist's life, but doing so can transform how an institution understands its own collection. The Danforth Art Museum's relationship to Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, whose family gifted nearly 400 works to the museum in 2006, has evolved through building a hard-won permanent gallery and a recreated studio space modeled on a single surviving photograph. In this episode, Jessica Roscio, director and curator at the Danforth Art Museum, and Rachel Passannante, the museum's associate curator, discuss how they built Fuller's permanent gallery after the museum's 2019 relocation, the ongoing research challenges posed by undocumented and unattributed works, and their continued relationship with the Fuller family, including descendant David Fuller in Framingham. They describe the 1910 fire that destroyed much of Fuller's early body of work, the recovery of her career through later commissions including Ethiopia Awakening, and the more than century-old scrapbook recently donated to the museum, now digitized and accessible through the Danforth's website. This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment. The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette Editing: Theo Albaric Music: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-Baczewska The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world. Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Recovering a Life's Work with Jessica Roscio & Rachel Passannante

  6. Jul 16

    Archiving a Legacy with Tammi Lawson & Crystal Moten

    Founded on what its creator called "vindicated evidence," the Schomburg holds one of the most comprehensive collections of Black art in any public institution — including diaries, correspondence, photographs, poetry, and sculptures by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. In this episode, Crystal Moten, Associate Director of Collections at the Schomburg Center, and Tammi Lawson, curator of the Art and Artifacts Division, discuss how the Center's radical commitment to public access has shaped the recovery of Fuller's legacy, from the two life-size casts of Ethiopia Awakening on permanent display to the manuscript collection that holds her diaries and letters. They reflect on the intellectual labor of Black women artists during the Harlem Renaissance, drawing on Crystal Moten's research on Black women's work, and on the role of speculative thinking in filling the gaps that incomplete archives leave behind, drawing on Saidiya Hartman's framework. They also trace a lineage of Black women sculptors from Fuller through Augusta Savage, Elizabeth Catlett, and Simone Leigh, arguing that Fuller's work was not simply a beginning, but a vanguard. This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment. The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette Editing: Theo Albaric Music: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-Baczewska The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world. Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Archiving a Legacy with Tammi Lawson & Crystal Moten

  7. Jul 10

    Who Enters the Canon? with Kellie Jones & Heather Nickels

    In this episode, Kellie Jones, Hans Hoffman Professor of Modern Art at Columbia University and MacArthur Fellow, and Heather Nickels, independent curator and doctoral candidate at Columbia, discuss Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's place within African American art history, the structural conditions that shaped her access to sculpture as a medium, and what was lost — in practice and in the historical record — when her stored works were destroyed by fire in 1910. Drawing comparisons with Edmonia Lewis and Augusta Savage, they examine how class, gender, colorism, and the lack of a comprehensive catalogue raisonné have all affected Fuller's canonization. They also reflect on what Paris offered her — both artistic freedom and distance from the gendered expectations she would return to — and on the ongoing work needed to bring her work into the permanent collections of encyclopedic institutions, whether in New England, in Philadelphia, or beyond. This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment. The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette Editing: Theo Albaric Music: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-Baczewska The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world. Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Who Enters the Canon? with Kellie Jones & Heather Nickels

  8. Jul 2

    The Making of a Sculptor with Renée Ater

    At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris drew young American artists with the promise of training unavailable at home. For African American artists, it also promised an escape from the racism that governed their professional lives in the United States, though that promise was not always kept. In this episode, art historian Renée Ater discusses Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's three formative years in Paris, from her arrival in 1899 and the discrimination she faced at the American Girls' Art Club, to her training under sculptors including Jean-Antonin Carlès, her encounter with Rodin's work at the 1900 Universal Exposition, and the recognition she earned at Siegfried Bing's L'Art Nouveau gallery in 1902. Ater draws on her dissertation and her 2010 monograph, Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller, as well as her ongoing digital archive at slaverymonuments.org, to trace how works like Silent Sorrow and The Wretched reflect Fuller's absorption of Rodin's expressive modeling and her own deepening engagement with themes of human suffering. This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment. The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony Valette Editing: Theo Albaric Music: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-Baczewska The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world. Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Making of a Sculptor with Renée Ater
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Atelier highlights some of the unique discussions that take place at Reid Hall, a third space at the threshold of academia and beyond. With Atelier, we open our doors to listeners anywhere. Engaging across borders and disciplines, these conversations feature some of the people who inspire us most and explore a vast range of topics, from art and science to social justice and climate. Atelier is produced by the Columbia Global Paris Center, a Columbia University initiative housed at Reid Hall. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Columbia Global Paris Center
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    86
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Columbia Global Paris Center
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