Chesterwood announces the second 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 2: January 25, 2023 3:30-5:30 Eastern Time (2:30-4:30pm Central Time)

Please Register in advance for this webinar: https://savingplaces-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xtrz8_tuQS2YQDnmS4dtnw

“The Three Faces of Lafayette,” Michele Bogart, Professor Emerita of Art History and visual culture at SUNY Stony Brook

“Medium and Myth in a Southern City: Plaster in the Studio of Edward V. Valentine and the Valentine Museum, 1865 – 2003,” Kate Sunderlin, PhD candidate in Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University

“Naturalism: the American Bronze Body & the Public,” Kelvin Parnell, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Virginia

“Critical Place Inquiry and the Virtual Exhibition,” Meagan Anderson, PhD Student in the Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma

“The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, origin story of an exhibition,” Karen Lemmey, Curator of American Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum