Lecture: Art of the Floating World: 19th Century Japanese Prints
Thursday, October 18, 2012, 7pm
Storer Auditorium, UM School of Business
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146

Reception to follow at the Lowe Art Museum.
A reception follows at the Lowe Art Museum at 8pm. Lowe Members and UM Students: Free*; Non-Members: $10; RSVP: lowersvp@as.miami.edu; *There is a fee to attend the reception for non-member UM students.

Independent Curator and Scholar of Japanese art, Laura Mueller, will discuss Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo and Meiji Periods including many on display in the Lowe Art Museum’s current exhibition, Introspection and Awakening: Japanese Art of the Edo and Meiji Periods, 1615-1912.

Laura J. Mueller received her Master of Arts and Business Administration from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, and has served as a curatorial consultant at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Newark Museum, as well as holding the position of the Van Vleck Associate Curator of Japanese Prints at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, WI. Ms. Mueller is the author of many publications on Japanese prints including, Strong Women, Beautiful Men: Japanese Portrait Prints from theToledo Museum of Art ( 2005), Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School, Chazen Museum of Art, (2007); Beauty & Bravado in Japanese Woodblock Prints: Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection (2009); and Adornments in Clay: Ceramic Netsuke from the Richard R. Silverman Collection (2010).She is currently completing her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on Competition and Collaboration in Edo Print Culture: Creative Specialization and Market Eminence of Artists of the Utagawa School, 1770-1900.