Transgressing Boundaries
Women Painters of the American West
Thursday, April 9, 2015
2:00 - 3:15 PM
Art Building 107
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and Art / Art History Present:
Dr. BETSY FAHLMAN, Professor of Art History Arizona State University
Transgressing Boundaries will showcase the extraordinary women painters, architects, photographers, and cultural enthusiasts’ of Arizona, New Mexico, California, Colorado, Utah, and the Northwest Coast Additional support from the Fund for Interdisciplinary Research Endeavors.
Betsy Fahlman has taught at ASU since 1988. She did her undergraduate work at Mount Holyoke College, and graduate work at the University of Delaware, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. A specialist in American Art, her interests include public art, American modernism, the New Deal, the American West, and industrial archeology. Her books include Kraushaar Galleries: Celebrating 125 Years (2010), New Deal Art in Arizona (2009), Wonders of Work and Labor: The Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art (2008), James Graham & Sons: A Century and a Half in the Art Business (2007), Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster (2007), and Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life (2004).
This event is generously supported with funding from the Visiting Scholar and Artist Fund, Art and Art History department and the Fund for Interdisciplinary Research Endeavors.
For more information, contact: Prof. Alexis Boylan at alexis.boylan@uconn.edu