Guest lecture at St. Louis University on the People's Art Center

I had the pleasure of giving a guest lecture about my research on the People’s Art Center of St. Louis for Prof. Devin Johnston’s “Folk Modernism” seminar at St. Louis University. My talk involved a broad overview of the WPA/FAP art programs, narration of my process of conducting archival research at numerous local repositories — including the St. Louis Public Library, the Missouri Historical Society, the Missouri State Historical Society, the St. Louis Art Museum, the George B. Vashon Museum, and Washington University’s Special Collections — and a discussion about the challenges of researching subjects/persons historically marginalized by the structural inequities of archives themselves.