Portraying Gender, Portraying Race
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
4:30pm – 6:30pm (4:30 – 5:00 Coffee Reception; 5:00 - Talk starts)
Alexis Boylan, guest curator of "The Business of Bodies: Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941)" discusses the ways in which Rand’s work broke barriers while still conforming to social norms. How does gender and race play a part in artists of Rand's time?
Alexis L. Boylan is Associate Director of the Humanities Institute, and has a joint appointment with Art and Art History and the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) and editor of Thomas Kinkade, The Artist in the Mall (Duke University Press, 2011). Boylan has articles published in American Art, Journal of Curatorial Studies, MELUS, Rethinking Marxism, Prospects, and Woman’s Art Journal as well as contributing essays to numerous museum exhibition catalogues. She is currently working on a book about Ellen Emmet Rand that will be out soon.
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