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2024 Visiting Scholar

George Cotkin
The 2024 Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar for the Doel Reed Center is George Cotkin. He will lecture on “Outrageous and Outstanding: Postwar America’s Feast of Excess, and its Aftermath.”
Cotkin, professor of history emeritus at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, is the author of six books. Among them are “Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility” and “Dive-Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick.” He has been honored by Cal Poly with the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Scholarship Award. He is presently writing a book about the saddest story, Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener.”
Cotkin will talk about how various artists — working in the shadow of the atomic apocalypse and a stagnant culture — broke most rules that they could find, producing work that was sometimes minimalist, sometimes maximalist, but almost always controversial. From John Cage’s music without sound to Chris Burden’s having himself shot, this lecture will conclude by examining today’s culture.
The talk is hosted from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. MST, Friday, July 5, 2024 at SOMOS, 108 Civic Plaza Dr B, Taos, New Mexico 87571.

2024 Visiting Artist

Meggan Gould
Meggan Gould is the 2024 Smelser Vallion Artist for the Doel Reed Center. She will lecture on “Growing a Photographic Garden: Photography for the Apocalypse."
Gould is a photographer living and working in the mountains outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is a professor of art at the University of New Mexico. Her photographs have been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. She was a resident at LightWork in 2009, and her pictures are in public collections, including the DeCordova Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the Preus Museum in Oslo, Norway. She is a 2022 recipient of the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship.
Gould will speak on her recent work, which looks at plant-based printing methods, reliant on slow acts of photosensitivity that involve neither silver grains nor plastic papers. Many of these methods were explored in early photographic history but had little commercial value due to slower emulsions, mediocre stability and tedious exposure times. She asks, ‘Can we remake a culture of photography that places more value on the act of making itself, and on more ephemeral, less commodified prints? Do we have time?’
The talk is hosted at 3:30 p.m. MST, Friday, June 11, 2024, at the Studio at Taos Art Museum, 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, New Mexico 87571. 
 

Writers' Workshop Hosted at the Doel Reed Center

Top OSU scholars who were awarded nominations for some of the most prestigious awards and scholarships are invited to participate in a workshop each year.
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Participants Share Their Leisure Learning Experience

For years, many friends and alumni have taken advantage of the leisure learning courses offered at the majestic and historic Doel Reed Center for the Arts. It’s truly a unique experience with each year bringing a wide array of course offerings. We talked to sisters and OSU alumnae, Phyllis Hudecki and Jody Simpson, who offered three reasons you should consider joining us next summer in Taos for Leisure Learning Courses.
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Besides the Academic Credit and Leisure Learning Courses, the Doel Reed Center in Taos holds talks and workshops throughout the year.

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The Doel Reed Center hosts talks and workshops by distinctive visiting Artists and Scholars

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Discover Taos, New Mexico!

Taos is a small, multi-cultural town nestled in the Sangre de Christo Mountains in Northern New Mexico. Taos Pueblo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site at the north end of Taos, has been home to Pueblo people for more than a millennium.  Spanish settlement of Taos began in the 17th century; many families of Spanish descent have lived in the region for over 400 years.  The exquisite light and landscape of the area have attracted artists from around the world, making Taos a pre-eminent artist colony. Taos offers galleries, museums, restaurants, historical sites, shopping, skiing and extensive outdoor activities.

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The tranquil environment and picturesque views of Taos, New Mexico, provided the perfect environment for a prestigious group of scholars to participate in the annual Burns and Ann Hargis Writers’ Workshop.

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