Trinidad Artposium May 15-17, 2009
Sex and Sensibility
An examination of how sexuality and gender influence art, society, and behavior. The Artposium is an event exploring the intersection of writing, art and sexuality. This Artposium is about how sexuality is portrayed in the arts, and how it affects our behaviors, relationships, societies and evolution.
Dr. Leonard Shlain Dr. Shlain is a best-selling author of three books,
Art and Physics: The Parallel Visions of Space, Time and Light,
Alphabet Vs. The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image, and
Sex, Time & Power: How Woman’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution. A favorite among artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists and educators, he has lectured at such venues as Harvard, The New York Museum of Modern Art, Cern, Los Alamos, The Phillips Collection, Florence Academy of Art and the European Council of Ministers.
Marci Bowers is a 1986 graduate of the University of Minnesota medical school. During her 20+ years as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist, she has delivered more than 2000 babies, and has served as Ob/Gyn Department Chairperson at Swedish (Providence) Medical Center and as the only physician member of the Washington State Midwifery Board. She took over the Gender Reassignment Surgery Department in Trinidad, Colorado, in 2003 having been hand-picked by the legendary Dr. Stanley Biber. She has now performed more than 550 primary MTF vaginoplasties and annually performs more than 220 gender-related surgeries.
Charles BaxterCharles Baxter was born in Minneapolis and graduated from Macalester College, in Saint Paul. After completing graduate work in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he taught for several years at Wayne State University, in Detroit. In 1989, he moved to the Department of English at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and its MFA program. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota.
The Feast of Love is just that–a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; and adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones.
Melinda Barlow Melinda Barlow, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Film Studies, researches the work of living female independent video and film makers,. She is the editor of Mary Lucier: Art and Performance (JHUP, 2000), and the author of Lost Objects of Desire: Video Installation, Mary Lucier and the Romance of History, forthcoming from the U. of Minnesota Press. Professor Barlow received the Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, the Gold Best Should Teach Award from the Graduate Teacher Program, and the Dorothy Martin Woman Faculty Member Award from CU.
Laura PritchettLaura Pritchett is the author/editor of five books. Her fiction includes the novel Sky Bridge, which won the WILLA Fiction Award; and the short story collection Hell's Bottom, Colorado, which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the PEN USA Award.
She is also the editor/co-editor of three anthologies: The Pulse of the River, Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works, and Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers.
Diana Baumbach
Trinidad Artposium 
2009
