Both artists and art historians will take part in "Facing the Past and Present: The Portrait in American Art," a day-long symposium on Saturday, Oct. 28, in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery.

The program, free and open to the public, is offered in conjunction with the current exhibitions "Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures" and "The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture."

The morning session, which begins at 10 a.m., will be moderated by Jules D. Prown, the Paul Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Art. It will open with a talk by Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch, an independent scholar and authoritative connoisseur of American miniatures and needlework. Her subject will be "Samuel Folwell: Miniatures on Ivory and Silk for Middle America." Deutsch and her husband, Alvin, have promised to bequeath to Yale their collection of miniatures, many of which are in the current exhibition.

In addition, Ellen G. Miles, a Yale alumna who is curator and chair of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, will speak on "Depicting Character in American Portraiture"; and Anne Sue Hirshorn, an independent curator who is program officer in the Bureau of International Programs in the U.S. State Department, will present a talk titled "Artists' Journeys: Anna Claypoole Peale and Caroline Schetky."

The afternoon session, which begins at 2 p.m., will be moderated by Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale Art Gallery, who organized the exhibition "The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture." The panel will feature three artists, all of whom are represented in the exhibition. They are:

* Tina Barney, who is internationally known for her large color photographs that record the lives of her affluent family and friends.

* Dawoud Bey, who also documents the lives of those he is most familiar with -- young African Americans -- using both a 35mm camera and a large, 20 by 24 inch Polaroid camera. Bey earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Art in 1993.

* Whitfield Lovell, who combines his large-scale drawings, based on photographs of African Americans from the 1920s and 1930s, with found objects to evoke and honor themes of African-American ancestry and cultural memory.

The Yale University Art Gallery is located at Chapel and York Streets. An entrance for persons using wheelchairs is at 201 York St., with an unmetered parking space nearby on York Street. The gallery is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. For information, call (203) 432-0606 or (203) 432-0600; or visit the museum's website at www.yale.edu/artgallery.

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