Chesterwood announces the first roundtable session for “Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture”, an ongoing digital humanities project led by Emily Burns, Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s project “For the People, By the People: Transforming National Trust Historic Sites through the Humanities” has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom.

SESSION 1: January 20, 2023, 1-3 Eastern Time / 12-2 PM Central Time

Please Register in advance for this webinar: https://savingplaces-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zfgoMVKnRsauGzjP2kn6FA

“Empires of Rule, Empires of Commerce: the Four Continents Groups at the Albert Memorial and U.S. Customs House,” Scott Manning Stevens (Akwesasne Mohawk), Associate Professor and Director of Native American and Indigenous studies, University of Syracuse

“Sculpture as Site of Contested Memories: French’s Lincoln & The Kilbon Memorial Fountain,” Olivia von Gries, PhD Student in the Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma

“American” Sculpture, Female Figures, and Indigenous Identity at the World’s Columbian Exposition,” Yve Chavez (Tongva), Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Oklahoma

“Looking Back and Back Again: Public Responses to Criticism of ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit,’” Joseph Zordan (Bad River Ojibwe), PhD candidate in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

“Reinterpreting Native American Imagery at the US Capitol,” Michele Cohen, Curator of the Architect of the Capitol