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Posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2012Nancy Weekly, Head of Collections and Charles Cary Rumsey Curator, Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Adjunct Lecturer of Museum Studies, History and Social Studies Education
Nancy Weekly, head of collections and the Charles Cary Rumsey curator of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and adjunct lecturer in museum studies at Buffalo State College, presented “Painted Sounds: Charles E. Burchfield's Synesthetic Sensibilities” at the colloquium “Music, Image, and Silence: Studies in Comparative Literatures and the Arts” at Brock University in St. Catharine’s, Ontario, on March 2. Other presenters included May Peckham, a Ph.D. candidate in English at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; David Griffin, an instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Ontario; Greta Berman, faculty member in the liberal arts program of the Juilliard School in New York City; and Robert Silverman, one of Canada’s premier pianists. The colloquium was organized by Leslie Boldt and Cristina Santos, in Brock University’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
