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ARLIS-L  February 2003

ARLIS-L February 2003

Subject:

Larom Summer Institute Institute of Western American Studies announcement

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Frances Clymer <[log in to unmask]>

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LAROM SUMMER INSTITUTE OF WESTERN AMERICAN STUDIES

The Summer Institute in Western American Studies, now in its 23rd year,
is an interdisciplinary group of courses designed to explore the
relationships among the diverse cultures and histories that have
contributed to our understanding of the American West.  The
extraordinary faculty, participants, and location make the Summer
Institute unique.  Each year nationally-renowned scholars inspire
students to develop new insights into the historical and contemporary
issues that have transformed the American West.

Participants from across the United States, Canada, and Europe include
college professors, museum professionals, school teachers, graduate and
undergraduate students, and individuals with interests in the art and
history of the West.  This melding of Institute students, combined with
small class sizes, provides ample opportunity for dynamic discussions
with participants from other backgrounds and experiences.  The interplay
- both formal and informal - among instructors and students adds another
dimension to the learning adventure.

Course content is enhanced by access to the art and artifacts which
bring the West of the past into the 21st century classroom:  works of
art by Catlin, Bierstadt, Remington and Russell in the Whitney Gallery
of Western Art; a broad range of materials from the cultures represented
in the Plains Indian Museum; a comprehensive assemblage of firearms in
the Cody Firearms Museum;  the climate, geology, flora and fauna of the
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in the Draper Museum of Natural History;
and, of course, objects related to the life of the great Westerner,
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.  All combine to shed new light on
America's national identity and to explore the influence that this vast
wilderness had on the American experience.


SESSION I, JUNE 2 - 6, 2003

Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell
Sarah E. Boehme, Ph.D.

DR. SARAH E. BOEHME has served as the John S. Bugas Curator of the
Whitney Gallery of Western Art at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in
Cody, Wyoming, since 1986.  In 1998, she co-curated the Museums West
exhibition, Powerful Images:  Portrayals of Native America, and
contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue.  In the summer of
2000, the exhibition John James Audubon in the West opened at the
Historical Center, a project for which Boehme has served as curator and
co-author of the exhibition catalogue.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This seminar course will examine the art and lives
of the two most celebrated artists of the American West, Frederic
Remington and Charles M. Russell.  Using the extensive collections of
the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the class will examine works of art
by the artists to understand first-hand their artistic accomplishments.
Classroom sessions, with additional slides and documentary material,
will investigate the West as portrayed by the two artists in their media
of painting, sculpting and writing.  The artists' depictions of cowboys,
Native Americans, and wildlife will be compared within the context of
Western history.

SESSION II, JUNE 9 - 13, 2003

The Northern Plains:  Historical Crossroads
Elliott West, Ph.D.

DR. ELLIOTT WEST, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is a specialist in western social
and environmental history.  He is the author or co-author of six books,
including Growing Up with the Country:  Childhood on the Far-Western
Frontier and The Contested Plains:  Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to
Colorado.  His books have won several national awards, including (for
The Contested Plains) the Parkman Prize for the outstanding book in
American history in 1998.  He has twice been named his university's
outstanding teacher.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  On the northern Great Plains (Montana, Wyoming, and
the Dakotas), several threads of western history come together:  old
patterns of native migration, the mixed influences of European contact
and the innovations of indigenous cultures, the transformations of
American frontiers and their accompanying tensions, military
confrontation and the military defeat of Indian peoples, and the
cultural persistence and mingling of all who contributed to this
region's history.  This course will examine those themes through a
twofold approach.  It will consider the events familiar to the narrative
of western history, and it will also introduce alternate perspectives.

SESSION III, JUNE 16 - 20, 2003

Nature and Power in the History of the American West
Louis S. Warren, Ph.D.

DR. LOUIS WARREN is W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S.
History and Associate Professor of History at the University of
California, Davis.  Born and raised in Idaho and Nevada, he received his
Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993.  He is the author of The Hunter's
Game:  Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale,
1997), winner of the award for Best Non-Fiction Book for 1997 from the
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Environmental change is everywhere in American
history, but it is seldom easy, and few places better illustrate this
than the American West.  Down to the present, the American West has seen
dramatic transformations in peoples' connections to land.  This course
will examine changing environments and changing peoples, and the
shifting ground between them, from about 1750 to the present.  Subjects
will include conservation movement; nature and wilderness in American
popular culture; national parks and local peoples (especially at
Yellowstone, but with comparative material from Glacier, Yosemite, and
elsewhere); homesteading, ranching, and the public lands; wolf
reintroduction and the environmental movement; tourism and the modern
West.  Emphasis will be on environmental change, political conflict, and
cultural developments.


SESSION IV, JUNE 23 - 27

Every Picture Tells A Story:  Images of Myth and Memory in the American
West
Ron McCoy, Ph.D.
DR. RON McCOY studies the history and lore of the American West,
especially its Indian tribes.  The son of Tim McCoy, a Wind River cowboy
who starred in a hundred silent and early talkies Westerns, he has
written extensively on the communicative powers of such diverse images
as Plains Indian warrior drawings, photographs, paintings, and movies.
He received the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western
Heritage Center-where he has served as a consultant on early Western
films-for coauthoring Tim McCoy Remembers the West.  The American
Association of Museums gave its Award of Distinction to his monograph on
the painted shields of Great Plains and Southwestern tribes.  Ron is a
professor of history at Emporia State University (Kansas), where for
nine years he directed that institution's Center for Great Plains
Studies.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Long before the people of the American West
communicated with written words they used the rich vocabulary of painted
words.  Plains Indians developed a visual lexicon of images through
which they transmitted detailed information about their experience in
region.  Later arrivals-George Catlin, Frederic Remington, and Charles
Russell among them-used the language of Euroamerican artistic traditions
to create their own interpretations of the West.  Still later, the
"shadow makers"-photographers like David F. Barry and William Henry
Jackson-brought a new technology into play to convey a sense of the
place and its people.  Eventually, the pictures that made the myths and
memories of the American West available to the public at large moved and
flickered in darkened dream palaces.  This course explores the role of
Plains Indian artifacts and art, Euroamerican painting and photography,
and movies in proclaiming and preserving the American West's wonderfully
textured tapestry of myths and memories.

For information and applications, please contact:

Lillian Turner
Public Progams
Education Department
BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER
720 Sheridan Avenue
Cody, Wyoming 82414-3428
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www.bbhc.org

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