"Picturing Puerto Rico under the American Flag: The Documentary Vision of Edwin and Louise Rosskam"
Lecture by Laura Katzman Ph.D., professor of art history, James Madison University.
The lecture, titled Archaeology on the Plantation: Exploring how Enslaved People Engaged with their Material World, will be delivered by Karen McIlvoy, archaeology laboratory supervisor at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. 5:00 pm reception, 6:00 pm lecture FREE and open to the public. This program is sponsored by Randolph College, the Maier Museum of Art, and […]
Dr. Kat Owens, a plastic pollution researcher, artist, and activist, will discuss Entangled and Ingested, a series of life-sized portraits of animals harmed by marine plastic pollution hand sewn from plastic debris. Owens’ work merges science, policy, and the arts. She is a National Geographic Explorer, a Fulbright Nehru fellow, and a Professor at the […]
In this lecture Dr. Patty Gerstenblith will discuss the concept of the ‘universal’ museum and its historical underpinnings exploring its origins across the arc of the 19th century as well as the inequities of the international legal system, and the continuing justifications for the retention of looted cultural objects by European and North American museums […]
Jack Gary, Executive Director of Archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Archaeology has been an integral part of the research, interpretation, and reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg for almost a century. With so much work completed, and a collection of over 60 million artifacts, what can possibly be left to discover? Over the past five years Colonial […]
