Upcoming events and exhibits: 2018
Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Huntington Library Institute for the History of California and the West
Speaker: Professor William Deverell (Department of History, University of Southern California).
The Annual Ruskin Lecture, sponsored by The Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, an event celebrating the 130th Anniversary of the Ruskin Art Club.
The Gamble House, Pasadena
5-8pm
Speakers: John and Jim Ipekjian
The Lecture Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum
6.30pm
The former Secretary of State of Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Smith, takes up Ruskin’s idea of “a political economy of art” in his 1857 lectures, “A Joy For Ever”, and explores contemporary issues concerning the public impact of the arts.
The Roycroft Campus, East Aurora, NY
Speakers include Kateri Ewing (Artist-in-Residence, Roycroft Campus); Jim Spates (Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges); Joe Weber (Printer, Roycroft Campus)
Walkley Carnegie Library, South Road, Sheffield, UK
2-4pm
The Original Ruskin Art Club House, Los Angeles
Meersbrook Park, Sheffield, UK
Doheny Library, University of Southern California, University of Southern California, Huntington Library Institute for the History of California and the West
Speakers: Professor David St. John (Department of English, University of Southern California); Dr. Sara Atwood (The Guild of St. George and Portland Community College).
Film: “Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry”
Tate Britain
Oxford Museum of Natural History
Lecture Given by John Holmes, Professor of English, Birmingham University
Brantwood Blue Gallery, Coniston, UK
A starlike object moves in the dark space of the Blue Gallery whilst, in the Annexe, the sky has shattered into a cairn of shards.
The Transience of Wonder: sculptural installation and Black Sun: video installation
Video artist and sculptor Patricia Townsend returns to the Blue Gallery five years after her video installation Morecambe Bay. In Black Sun she presents a hypnotic vision which is powerfully moving together with a sculptural installation in the Annexe reflecting Ruskin’s love of the sky; polarities which usher-in 2019, the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth.
2019
Brantwood Blue Gallery, Coniston, UK
A starlike object moves in the dark space of the Blue Gallery whilst, in the Annexe, the sky has shattered into a cairn of shards.
The Transience of Wonder: sculptural installation and Black Sun: video installation
Video artist and sculptor Patricia Townsend returns to the Blue Gallery five years after her video installation Morecambe Bay. In Black Sun she presents a hypnotic vision which is powerfully moving together with a sculptural installation in the Annexe reflecting Ruskin’s love of the sky; polarities which usher-in 2019, the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth.
Houghton Rare Book Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
2 Temple Place, London, UK
Brantwood, Coniston, UK
Ondatje Wing Lecture Theatre, National Portrait Gallery
1.15pm
Speaker: Prof. Robert Hewison
Tickets will go on sale on Monday 29 October 2018 for NPG members, and then on Monday 5 November for the general public.
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Royal Academy of Arts, London
6.30pm
An evening of readings and music from Ruskin, featuring actors Michael Palin and Dan Draper, and songs realised by Sarah Rodgers, including a performance of her setting of “The King of the Golden River” by Richard Edgar-Wilson and the Coull Quartet.
Tickets will be on sale from the Royal Academy in November 2018.
Coniston, UK
The Ruskin Prize
Call for entries opens for The John Ruskin Prize 2019 for artists, makers and designers resident in the UK. Visit www.ruskinprize.co.uk for more on the prize and sign up for the newsletter here to receive the 2019 call for artists.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Lecture by Professor Dinah Birch CBE
St George's Bloomsbury
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Gallery, Tokyo
York Art Gallery, York, UK
Brantwood, Coniston, UK
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Tea and cakes 3.30, Lecture 4.15
Speaker: Prof Robert Hewison
Organised by the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum
Brantwood, Coniston
Cumbria Youth Dance Company
Cumbria YDC, in collaboration with Wired Aerial Theatre, will create a suite of unique site-specific, bungee-assisted and aerial performance works referencing Ruskin’s love of mountains. Dancers will work on the Cumbrian fells and in the studio to explore the transition between vertical & horizontal, producing 3 unique pieces of choreography for sharing in the grounds at Brantwood. The works will also feature at Lakes Alive festival in September 2019, on stage at The Lowry as part of U.Dance NW 2019 and on screen at Kendal Mountain Festival as part of their Special Film Screenings in November 2019.
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Kurume City Art Museum, Japan
Edinburgh, Scotland
Abbot Hall, Kendal, UK
Brantwood, Coniston, UK
Abeno Hanikas Art Musem, Osaka, Japan
National Gallery, London
7 pm
National Gallery, London
Details to follow
The Roycroft Campus, East Aurora, NY
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Guild of St George and Ruskin in Sheffield host a Ruskin symposium and celebration. Programme to include The Ruskin Lecture by Guild Master, Clive Wilmer. Full programme & speakers TBC
The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Jim Spates (Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges) and Dr. Gabriel Meyer (Executive Director, Ruskin Art Club), Coordinators
Speakers include Clive Wilmer (Master of The Guild of St. George), Dr. Sara Atwood (The Guild of St. George and Portland Community College), Gabriel Meyer (President, Ruskin Art Club), Jim Spates (Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)