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Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows' Lectures, May 17-19
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Posted by: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Deadline: Fri, May 19th, 2023
Join the 2022–2023 class of SAAM research fellows as they present new scholarship on a range of topics and time periods, media and messages. Speakers will share research discoveries and offer fresh perspectives on works of US-American art. Talks will be held in person in SAAM’s McEvoy Auditorium at 8th and G Streets NW. This event is free and no registration is required. More details available at AmericanArt.si.edu/research/fellowslectures.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17
Session I: 1–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderated by Melissa Ho, curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Manon Gaudet, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, Yale University, “Picturing (Dis)Possession: Land, Likeness, and the General Allotment Act”
Amy Kahng, Patricia and Philip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, Stony Brook University, “Unsettled and Unrooted Ground: Chiura Obata’s Internment Landscapes”
Zoe Weldon-Yochim, Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Fighter Jets and Fallout: Attending to Militarized Western Shoshone Lands and Diverse Multi-Being Assemblages in Jack Malotte’s The End”
Session II: 3:15–5 p.m. ET
Moderated by Robin Veder, executive editor of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Building Feminist Bloodlines: Tressa ‘Grandma’ Prisbrey’s Bottle Village and the Los Angeles Woman’s Building”
Jessica Larson, Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “‘No Substitute for Justice Withheld’: Visualizing Black Charitable Landscapes in Nineteenth-Century Manhattan”
Connor Hamm, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, “Unsettling the Florida Sub-Tropical Exposition”
THURSDAY, MAY 18
Session III: 1–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderated by Eleanor Harvey, senior curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Katie Loney, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, “Showroom Fictions: Marketing Indian Art in the United States, 1880s–1920s”
Sarah Emily Rogers Morris, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Chicago, “A Photographic ‘Trip Around the World’: Visual Instruction in a Transnational Frame, 1890–1940”
Grace Kuipers, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, University of California, Berkeley, “‘The Surface Has Hardly Been Scratched’: Spratling Silver, Mineral Imperialism, and U.S. Developmentalism in Mexico”
Session IV: 1–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderated by Grace Yasumura, assistant curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rachel Burke, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, “Fugitive Grounds: Writing in the Archival Absence of Henry Box Brown’s Mirror of Slavery”
Madeleine Harrison, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, “Palmer Hayden on Paper”
Claire Ittner, Will Barnet Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, “Materiality, Objecthood, and (Self) Possession in Eldzier Cortor’s Sea Islands Works”
FRIDAY, MAY 19
Session V: 1–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderated by Saisha Grayson, curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ellen Yoshi Tani, Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Black Conceptual Practice”
Amy E. Crum, SAAM Predoctoral Fellow in Latinx Art, University of California, Los Angeles, “Projecting the Barrio: Los Four at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1974) and Murals of Aztlán at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (1981)”
Ariel Evans, William H. Truettner Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, “‘Talk that talk’: Reinventing Documentary with Carrie Mae Weems’ Family Pictures and Stories”
Session VI: 3:15–4:30 p.m. ET
Moderated by Randall Griffey, head curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Maki Kaneko, Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art, University of Kansas, “Unnamable Friendship: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani”
Marisa Lerer, George Gurney Senior Fellow, Manhattan College, “Memorializing Tragedies Across Borders in the Work of Antonio Martorell and Freddy Rodríguez”
Closing Reception: 4:30-5:30 p.m. ET
Posted on Fri, March 17th, 2023
Expires on Fri, May 19th, 2023
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