The Smithsonian Fellows Lectures in American Art

 

Please join us for two afternoons of lectures in American art organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The talks will take place in the museum’s McEvoy Auditorium, 8th and G Streets NW, Washington, D.C. No reservations are required. For more information, contact [log in to unmask] or (202) 633-8353.

 

THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2009

 

1:00–3:30 p.m.   

 

Nancy Palm, predoctoral fellow, Indiana University, "Drawing from the Archive: Thomas Cole’s Indian Sketches"

 

Crawford Alexander Mann III, Terra Foundation for American Art Fellow, Yale University, “'Every Manly Beauty': Thomas Crawford and the Sensuality of American Neoclassical Sculpture"

 

Makeda Best, predoctoral fellow, Harvard University, "Race and Civil War Photography"

 

Ellery Foutch, Wyeth Foundation Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, "Arresting Beauty: Eugen Sandow, Photography, and Sculpture"

 

4:00–6:00 p.m.   

 

Melissa Warak, predoctoral fellow (at NPG), University of Texas at Austin, "The Buddhist, the Painter, the Graphic Score Maker: Larry Poons’s Dot Paintings (1962–68)"

 

Jeannine Tang, Terra Foundation for American Art Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, "Organizing Indignation: On the Work of Lucy Lippard"

 

Annemarie Voss, predoctoral fellow, Rutgers University, "'Ghost Nets': Art as Ecological Trigger Point"
    
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2009
     
1:00–3:00 p.m.  

 

Jason LaFountain, predoctoral fellow, Harvard University, "The Puritan Building Block"

 

Joanna Frang, Terra Foundation for American Art Fellow, Brandeis University, "Traveling, Writing, Collecting: Early Americans and the Grand Tour, 1740–1830"

 

Sarah Carter, predoctoral fellow, Harvard University, "Object Lessons and Visual Culture, 1850–1900"

 

3:30–6:00 p.m. 

 

Jonathan F. Walz, predoctoral fellow (at NPG), University of Maryland, "'The Jump between Fact and the Imaginative Reality': The Stieglitz Circle’s 'Portrait Photographs'"

 

Valerie Hellstein, Patricia and Phillip Frost Fellow, Stony Brook University, "Expressing Community: The Club and the New York School"

 

Jason Goldman, predoctoral fellow, University of Southern California, "The Importance of Misbehaving: Brigid Berlin/Brigid Polk in the Sixties and Beyond"

 

Janneken Smucker, James Renwick Fellow in American Craft, University of Delaware, "Amish Design: Making Art by Reviving Craft"