I’m excited to be presenting at the 2024 College Art Association annual conference (in Chicago, IL) as part of the panel “Confronting the Legacy of New Deal Art in the Twenty-First Century" about my research on the People’s Art Center of St. Louis. The session, which is co-chaired by Dr. Erika Doss and Dr. Mary Okin, will take place on Wednesday, February 14 from 2:30-4 p.m.
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Paper presentation at the 49th Cleveland Symposium
I was honored to present my paper “Mistakes on the Lake: On the Ethics of Eco-Art and Ecological Stewardship” at the 49th annual Cleveland Symposium this past weekend. The symposium is organized by the graduate art history department at Case Western Reserve University and hosted at the Cleveland Art Museum; this year’s theme was “Surface Tension: Water, Waterways, and Art” and featured a remarkable program of presenters.
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.