SPEAKERS ON THE VISUAL ARTS
TERRAIN GALLERY / AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION

• School of Visual Arts : "Aesthetic Realism: The Opposites in Art and Life," on the arts of printmaking, architecture, painting, film and animation, presented in the series Artists Talk on Art: Critical Dialogue in the Visual Arts-Since 1975. The panelists were Chaim Koppelman, printmaker, Marcia Rackow, painter, Dale Laurin, architect, Ken Kimmelman, filmmaker, with Moderator, Carrie Wilson, art historian.

• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Lecture Series, Fall 2004: Art educators Marcia Rackow and Donita Ellison spoke on "Aesthetic Realism Shows What's Going on in American Art and In Ourselves" discussing the work of American Realist painters from Thomas Hart Benton to Alex Katz.

• The Brooklyn Bridge 120th Anniversary Celebration- ''The Brooklyn Bridge: A Study in Greatness'' : an illustrated slide talk by Carrie Wilson, Terrain Gallery Coordinator, and John Stern, retired senior planner at the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, New York. They showed why this structure has been loved by millions of people all over the world.

• 31st World Congress of InSEA International Society for Education in the Arts: Aesthetic Realism, Art, & Anthropologyy: Or, Justice to People, presented by Dr. Arnold Perey, anthropologist and Marcia. Rackow, artist, showing what impels art in every culture-African, European, Polynesian-is "the making one of opposites" and how this study can change racial prejudice to respect and kindness.

• 31st InSEA World Congress 2002 for International Conversations through Art: "Aesthetic Realism Shows How Art Answers the Questions of Your Life" presented by Dorothy Koppelman, painter and founding Director of the Terrain Gallery and Carrie Wilson, Gallery Coordinator. Based on the historic 20-year series of talks at the Terrain, they showed "the oneness of opposites" is the criterion for all beauty-in a Persian manuscript, a Cezanne still-life, Picasso's " Guernica ," an abstraction by Hofmann, and in life!

• The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Shows the Thrilling Structure in Common Between Art and Science presented by Rosemary Plumstead, science educator and Aesthetic Realism consultant, and Donita Ellison, high school art teacher. Through demonstration lessons on how beauty is present in prehistoric cave paintings and the anatomy of the human hand, the presenters illustrate the mighty, graceful relation of art and science.

Note: The InSEA talks were published in International Conversations through Art: Proceedings of the 31st InSEA World Congress 2002, Prabha Sahasrabudhe, Editor. Center for International Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York : 2003.