Free with Admission. Complimentary wine reception with RSVP. Please register through the University of Texas At Dallas. via the RSVP button below.

About the Symposium 

In writings ranging from journals and letters to workshop manuals, autobiographies, and poems, visual artists turn to text to describe the materials and techniques of their practice. This February, a panel of art historians, curators, and conservators will come together to explore artists’ writings about materials and techniques as part of a two-day symposium convened by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History with the participation of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center. The program’s aim is twofold: first, to define and explore the range of artists’ texts that treat working practices, and by extension to understand the relationships between artists’ textual and visual practices; and second, to ask how these writings inform our work as scholars, curators, and conservators. 

View the full symposium schedule and registration materials here.