Out of the Picture | Film Screening
Date: October 14, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: The Music Box
The Department of Visual Arts presents screening of Out of the Picture, the first documentary film to examine the vital world of American art criticism. The event will feature a post-screening Q&A and discussion with director Mary Louise Schumacher, offering audiences a unique look into the making of the documentary and the essential role critics play in shaping modern culture.
Directed by University of Maryland, College Park alumna and former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel critic Mary Louise Schumacher, the film follows five influential writers — Carolina Miranda (Los Angeles Times), Hrag Vartanian (Hyperallergic), Jen Graves (The Stranger), Jeneé Osterheldt (The Boston Globe), and independent critic Seph Rodney — navigating a decade of profound cultural reckoning and historic transformation across both art and media.
Mary Louise Schumacher is a journalist, critic and filmmaker based in Portland, Maine. She is the executive director of the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, which gives an annual prize for excellence in arts journalism to writers. She was the longtime art and architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, was the the 2019 Clarice Smith Distinguished Critic at the Smithsonian, and the 2017 Arts & Culture Fellow with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where she spent a year studying documentary film, among other things. Her bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, Nieman Reports and Milwaukee Magazine. Out of the Picture is her first film.
Admission is free. RSVPs are not required, but will help us plan the event. Please RSVP here in advance.
The Music Box, located on the first floor of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, is easy to visit, with plenty of free parking. Please visit here for directions and parking information.
This event is sponsored by the Visiting Artist and Designers Series, the Department of Visual Arts, the Department of Media & Communication Studies, and the CAHSS Women’s Faculty Network.