Belgium, Netherlands, Christine de Pizan, New friends, and
Art, art, art! And the Internet, did I mention the Internet?
Wow, what a summer I have had! So many new experiences, so
many new friends from all over the world, and world class museums! Where do I
start? In small bites I think.
To begin, about two years ago, a medieval scholar from
Chicago, Julia Nephew, discovered my artwork on the internet. She was writing
an article on the 15th century writer Christine de Pizan for an
academic journal. I just happened to have used Christine in a series of
collages I created between 2003 and 2007.
Julia asked
permission to use some of my images in her article. We negotiated a contract
and some months later a book arrived from Florence, Italy containing Julia’s
article and my images. Because of this I was invited to speak at the North
American Conference of Medieval Scholars at Western Michigan University.
Because of that, Julia and I were
invited to co-present at the International Colloquium Christine de Pizan in
Belgium!
So, off I go to Belgium, by way of the Netherlands. I will
expand on that in a future post, but this time I want to give a shout out to
the organizers of the conference, Oliver and Tanya of the Catholic University
Louvain la Neuve in Belgium. They were the ultimate hosts!
Olivier and Tanya were each given framed prints of the Christine de Pizan collages that were part of my series. This was a "Thank You" from all the presenters.
