Monday, October 3rd from 8am – 5pm NSU Art Museum Docent Speakers Bureau returns Oct. rd3 at 10:30 am in the John Knox Village auditorium with a presentation entitled The Feminine Perspective. Traditionally, women were seen as an inspiration for great art, but not as the creators of great art. The talk begins in the 17th century and looks at the cultural and social reasons that confined women to this more passive role and how difficult it was for them to gain recognition as artists in their own right. It will discuss works from artists such as Mary Cassatt, Sonia Delaunay, Georgia O’Keefe, and Frida Kahlo.
The speaker will be Allison Fiedel. She became a docent at the urging of her mother, who received her Master’s in Art History and Judaica studies from Columbia University at the age of 59. Her mother was docent at the Jewish Museum and the Guggenheim in New York City, and the Baker Museum of Art in Naples. Allison has been a docent at NSU Art Museum since the summer of 2019 and led tours for about seven months until the museum (and world) shut down due to Covid-19. She is happily back leading tours and a proud new member of the Speakers Bureau.