Teaching and Other Speaking Engagements
The Teaching and Other Speaking Engagements series documents Castagnacci's career as an instructor at Old Dominion University (from 1967 to 1972) and at the University of Michigan's School of Art & Design (from 1973 until his retirement in 2008). The series consists of lecture notes, readings, and course handouts that span four decades of Castagnacci's career as an educator and which are complemented by video footage of his classroom instruction at the University of Michigan's School of Art & Design in 2004 and fall 2007 (his final semester of teaching). Additional departmental assignments (including work on the Basic Studio committee) and his appointment as an Arthur F. Thurnau Distinguished Professor are documented as well. The series also includes video from the 1995 Mondrian Symposium held at U of M's Chrysler Auditorium that document panelists (including Castagnacci) delivering lectures, a performance of a Mondrian-inspired dance piece, and a reconstruction of Mondrian's final studio in New York.