Did you miss the May 4–6 Smithsonian American Art Museum
Fellows Lectures? Recordings of the talks are now available online at www.AmericanArt.si.edu/research/fellowslectures.
They will remain on the site for one year:
Wednesday, May 4 (Watch
the Recording)
Session I: 1:00–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderator: Karen Lemmey, the Lucy S. Rhame Curator of Sculpture
- Fábio
D'Almeida, Terra Foundation of American Art Postdoctoral Fellow, Forum
für Kunstgeschichte, Paris
“Forging the Fallen Shawnee Chief: Ferdinand Pettrich’s The Dying
Tecumseh"
- Kelvin
Parnell, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow (deferred from
2020–2021), University of Virginia
“Black Bronze”
- Giuseppe
Rizzo, predoctoral fellow, Smithsonian Institution (deferred from
2020–2021), Ruprecht Karl Universität
“The Art of Bronze:
Transmission of Taste and Techniques for Public Statues from Florence to
the US in the Nineteenth Century”
Session II: 3:00–5:15 p.m. ET
Moderator: Virginia Mecklenburg, Senior Curator
- Ali
Printz, William H. Truettner Predoctoral Fellow (deferred from
2020–2021), Tyler School of Art, Temple
"Progress and Regress: The Creation of the Appalachian Stereotype in
Mass Visual Culture"
- Rebecca
Giordano, Patricia and Philip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, University of
Pittsburgh
"Formal Relations: African Art and Cultural Anthropology in Hale
Woodruff’s the Art of the Negro"
- Samantha
Noël, Terra Foundation of American Art Senior Fellow, Wayne State
University
"The Diasporic Dimensions of David Hammons's Dreadlock Series"
- Robb
Hernández, senior fellow in Latinx Art, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Fordham University
"Transplanetary: Speculative Aesthetics in Art of the Americas"
Thursday, May 5 (Watch
the Recording)
Session III: 1:00–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderator: Mary Savig, the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, Renwick Gallery
- Amanda
Thompson, predoctoral fellow, Smithsonian Institution (deferred from
2020–2021), Bard Graduate Center
“Seminole and Miccosukee Palmetto Dolls and Women's Negotiation of Settler
Colonialism in South Florida, c. 1930s-1950s”
- Matthew
Limb, Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow (deferred from
2020–2021), University of California, Santa Barbara
"Sing with the Earth: Experimentation and Liberation in Glen Lukens’s
Desert Ceramics, 1923-1967"
- Sara
Morris, predoctoral fellow in American craft, Smithsonian Institution,
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Viola Frey: Taking Matter(s) into Her Own Hands”
Session IV: 3:00–5:15 p.m. ET
Moderator: Saisha Grayson, Curator of Time-Based Media
- Christine
Filippone, Terra Foundation of American Art Senior Fellow in American
Art, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
“Disordering Circuits and Borders: Open Systems and Institutional Critique
in Argentina”
- Olga
Tchepikova-Treon, Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian
Institution Predoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“Aesthetic Intensities: Epilepsy in Paul Sharits’s Flicker Films”
- Rachel
Vogel, Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellow (deferred from
2020–2021), Harvard University
“Limited Edition / Limited Ownership: Douglas Huebler’s Participatory
Prints"
- Kaegan
Sparks, William H. Truettner Predoctoral Fellow, City University of
New York, The Graduate Center
“‘To feel in the gut, to gather up in the head’: Mierle Laderman Ukeles,
Systems Thinking, and the Trouble with Visibility”
Friday, May 6 (Watch
the Recording)
Session V: 1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
Moderator: Eleanor Jones Harvey, Senior Curator
- Nora
Lessersohn, Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow, University College
London
“The Oriental Lecturer: Instructive Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century
America”
- Chloe
Chapin, Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow (deferred from
2020–2021), Harvard University
“Tailoring as Portraiture: The New Art of Measuring and the Science of
Seeing”
Session VI: 3:00–5:15 p.m. ET
Moderator: Eleanor Jones Harvey, Senior Curator
- Alexis
Monroe, Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine
Arts, New York University
“Slaveholder Georgic”
- Elizabeth
Hutchinson, senior fellow, Smithsonian Institution (deferred from
2020–2021), Barnard College, Columbia University
"The Materialities of Eadweard Muybridge's 1875 Photographs of
Guatemala”
- Choghakate
Kazarian, Terra Foundation of American Art Predoctoral Fellow, The
Courtauld Institute of Art
"Improving with Age: Albert Pinkham Ryder’s Mellowing Paintings”
- Elliot
Krasnopoler, George Gurney Predoctoral Fellow, Bryn Mawr College
"Sally Mann and the Soils of the South"