Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

You are invited you to an opening reception for 3 new exhibitions:
"Ray Guns, Dames, and the Guilty Gaze: Feminism and the Golden Age of Science Fiction Pulps",
"Wild Youth: Punk and New Wave from the 1970s and 1980s"
and
"Encounters with the Collection: Celebrating Art by Women"

•Featuring an introduction to Wild Youth at 5:30pm with collector and punk rock aficionado Andrew Krivine

•Cash bar and light hors d'oeuvres.

RSVP appreciated to benton@uconn.edu or 860.486.4520

Join Benton educators for an interactive two-part workshop exploring Encounters with the Collection: Celebrating Art by Women.
Learn more about works of art in the exhibition through close looking and discussion with Assistant Curator/Academic Liaison Amanda Douberley. Then try your hand at paper weaving with Curator of Education Mollie Sixsmith.
Weaving, a craft historically associated with women, often features intricate patterns and color palettes. Drawing inspiration from this process, participants will experiment with paper weaving to create a set of colorful notecards. 
A materials kit will be available at the front desk one week before the program; free for UConn students and Museum members, $5 for non-members.

Register in advance for this Zoom meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtfuuppjwrHdDDLYe4vGqDqGX4waobaspx

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Join guest curator and Associate Professor of Art Alison Paul for a closer look at the exhibition, "Ray Guns, Dames, and the Guilty Gaze: Feminism and the Golden Age of Science Fiction Pulps".

The availability of cheap and easy printing on pulp paper in the U.S. during the second quarter of the twentieth century spawned multiple magazine publications known as “pulps,” giving birth to new genres of speculative fiction, many featuring sex and violence. This exhibition turns a feminist lens on the golden age of pulp fiction magazines to question the production and consumption of gender, race, and dis/ability through this wildly popular medium.

Curated by UConn professors Alison Paul (Art & Art History), and Barbara Gurr (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program), the show features original artworks from the Robert Lesser Pulp Art Collection on loan from the New Britain Museum of American Art, and original pulp publications on loan from the Watkinson Library at Trinity College.

The exhibition and related public programs are supported by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the School of Fine Arts, and the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Speaker bio: Alison Paul is an Associate Professor of Art and Area Coordinator for the Illustration/Animation concentration in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Connecticut. Paul creates illustrations and stop-motion animations using cut paper collage. Her work is fundamentally about storytelling to a variety of audiences. Paul’s animations have been shown in film festivals internationally, and her children’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. She has curated exhibitions at the UConn Library in Storrs and Roots Reading Room in Providence, RI. Professor Paul has taught at UConn since 2011.

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