lecture

Fugitives Hiding in Plain Sight: Reflections on Flavius Fisher’s Dismal Swamp

Image Credit: Flavius J. Fisher, Dismal Swamp, ca. 1858, oil on canvas Gift of Mrs. Robert N. Winfree, 1976 At a time when draconian enforcement of the federal Fugitive Slave […]

Beyond the Absence: Recovering the Architectural Imprints of Slavery

Location: Randolph College, Leggett Building Room 537 (fifth floor) Reception at 5:30 p.m. | Lecture begins at 6:00 p.m. Kathleen Powers Conti ’11, Assistant Professor of History, Florida State University, […]

The 34th Annual Helen Clark Berlind Symposium

Inspired by the 114th Annual Exhibition – The Audacity of Paint, panelists include artists represented in the exhibition: Sally Egbert, Julia Jo, and Sue McNally. The panel will be moderated […]

Bringing the Masters Home: Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo on the Renaissance Table

A shallow maiolica bowl with a painting of two men riding white horses and a third man who had fallen from his brown horse on the ground. In the sky above, the sun appears from behind clouds, with a ray directed toward the man on the ground. The scene depicts the biblical story of the conversion of Saul.

Alison Luchs, Curator of Early European Sculpture and Deputy Head, Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, National Gallery of Art, will discuss ways maiolica artists adapted major works of Renaissance […]

Artist Talk – Siobhán Byrns

A Hosta leaf with a photographic image of a young woman's face imprinted on it. Her eyes are closed and her features are relaxed.

Artist Siobhán Byrns will discuss her exhibition, The Green Ribbon: Chlorophyll Prints by Siobhán Byrns. Byrns’ ephemeral chlorophyll prints on Hosta leaves critique the romanticized ideals imposed on women, particularly […]