15 Monday Apr 2013
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ORGANIZERS: The University of the Arts (Sibelius Academy/DocMus and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts), Opera on the Move project (the Academy of Finland), the Finnish Wagner Society, and the Birch and the Star Association.
Keynote speakers: Barry Millington (UK), Hannu Salmi (Finland) and Eero Tarasti (Finland). Continue reading
08 Monday Apr 2013
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10.30 Welcome Speech: Museum Director Kai Kartio. Opening Words: Torsten Stjernschantz.
10.45 Juha-Heikki Tihinen, University of Helsinki
Tangible Elusiveness – Realized and Unrealized Artistic Ideas in the Oeuvre of Beda Stjernschantz
11.15 Asta Kihlman, University of Turku
“The unmoved eye and the look of eternity”
11.45–13.15 Lunch Break (not included) and possibility to visit the exhibition ART DECO and the Arts
13.15 Marja Lahelma, University of Helsinki
Beda Stjernschantz and the Timeless Ideal
13.45 Bart Pushaw, University of Chicago
A Swedish Karelia? Beda Stjernschantz’s Everywhere A Voice Invites Us
14.15 Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
In search of sacred art – Beda Stjernschantz and Anna Bremer on the Island of Vormsi 1895
14.45–15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 Edyta Barucka, University of Warsaw
”I embrace the common…”: Beda Stjernschantz’s, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s and Stanislaw Wyspianski’s botanical drawings
15.30 Salla Heino, Design Museum, Helsinki
Beda Stjernschantz’s Sketches for the Friends of Finnish Handicraft – Designing Finnish Textiles
16.00 Roundtable Talks
17.30 Cocktail Reception
Venue: Amos Anderson Art Museum, Yrjönkatu 27, 00100 Helsinki, Finland www.amosanderson.fi
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