April 29, 2025 at 6 pm
The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, in collaboration with the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, at The George Washington University, presents an evening dedicated to discussing the etching and engraving methods and materials employed for the masterful creation of work from “Piranesi’s Rome: Views of the Eternal City.” Speakers include Dr. Rachel Pollack, Professor Scip Barnhart and Professor Kerry McAleer-Keeler.
While you are here at the Embassy of Italy, do not miss the exhibition “Piranesi’s Rome: Views of the Eternal City.” You can find a virtual brochure here.
Registration required.
LOCATION
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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About the Speakers
DR. RACHEL POLLACK
Dr. Rachel Pollack is a professor at The George Washington University’s University Writing Program and has taught courses for the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and the University Honors Program. She has a PhD in Art History from the University of Maryland where she specialized in Northern Baroque art with a subspecialty in Greco-Roman sculpture. She has authored catalogue entries for exhibitions related to 17th century Dutch masters, as well as for The Leiden Collection in New York and the George and Linda Kaufman Collection. Most recently, she curated two micro-exhibitions at the The Textile Museum and published an article in the Textile Museum Journal on 17th century English embroidery in the museum’s collection. Her most recent exhibition at the Luther W. Brady Gallery, Piranesi’s Rome: Views of the Eternal City, is co-curated by her students at GW and her Summer 2024 GW class ‘Discovering the Romans’. Pollack is also a watercolor artist and is an active contributor to Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy, where she exhibits her work at their Annual Fall Show (2018-Present).
SCIP BARNHART
Professor at Georgetown and American universities. Teaches Drawing, Printmaking and Art of the Book.
KERRY MCALLER-KEELER
Associate Professor of Art and Design in printmaking and book arts at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University. She has taught at the Corcoran since 1998. Her book and print work is in such collections as the National Museum of Women In the Arts, Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Library, University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Library, the SGCI archives and the Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library.
