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# Programs

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During the academic year, the Center organizes scholarly programs that range in size and duration from multiday gatherings to small roundtable discussions. Some are aimed to enhance the Center’s residential community, such as fellows’ presentations, while others enhance the National Gallery’s public programming, such as lectures and symposia. All programs support innovative research in the fields of the visual arts.

## Public Programs

The Center supports lectures, symposia, and discussions that are free and open to the public. These programs often are in collaboration with departments across the National Gallery of Art, or with partnering institutions.

Afro-Atlantic Histories/Afro-Atlantic Futures

June 2, 2022West Building Lecture Hall and live streamedIn conjunction with the exhibition *Afro-Atlantic Histories*

Co-organized with the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, with support from the Ford Foundation

As a complement to the study day, curatorial teams from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo and National Gallery of Art participated in a panel discussion about *Afro-Atlantic Histories*. The program was held in both English and Portuguese.

**Panelists**Kanitra Fletcher, associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic art, National Gallery of Art, and cocurator of *Afro-Atlantic Histories* US tourAyrson Heráclito, cocurator of *Afro-Atlantic Histories*, Museu de Arte de São PauloHélio Menezes, cocurator of *Afro-Atlantic Histories*, Museu de Arte de São PauloE. Carmen Ramos, chief curatorial and conservation officer, National Gallery of Art

Moderated by Molly Donovan, curator of contemporary art, National Gallery of Art, and cocurator of *Afro-Atlantic Histories* US tour

Double Vision: Identity and Difference in Modern and Contemporary Art

October 22, 2022East Building AuditoriumIn conjunction with the exhibition *The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900*

Presentations and conversations explored the exhibition’s themes of doubling in visual practice.

**Session I: The Divided and Doubled Self**Smooth Nzewi, The Museum of Modern Art“Relational vs. Relativity: Twoness in Yoruba Culture and Representation”

James Oles, Wellesley College“Double Frida, Double Diego”

Lynne Tillman, University at Albany“Nothing Is the Same”

Discussion moderated by Pamela Lee, Yale University

**Performance of Josiah McElheny’s *****Two Walking Mirrors***Performed by Deviated TheatreEast Building, Concourse

**Session II: The Abstract Double**Josiah McElheny, New York, NY“Choreographing *Two Walking Mirrors*”

Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton“Barnett Newman’s Promise”

David Getsy, University of Virginia“Intimate Adjacencies and the Double in Queer Abstraction”

Discussion moderated by Christine Mehring, University of Chicago

Performance of Josiah McElheny’s *Two Walking Mirrors*, October 2022. Photo: Jen Rokoski

Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art

**Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Genius Paradox**November 6, 2022Cammy Brothers, Northeastern UniversityEast Building Auditorium and live streamed

In many respects, Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Raphael crafted the image of the creative genius that we still hold today. But if we allow ourselves to look more closely at the artistic practices of these central figures, we find a number of apparent contradictions. Rather than fonts of continuously new and original ideas, springing freely from their heads as we might have been led to imagine, we find that both artists borrowed or stole a great deal from each other, repeated themselves prodigiously, and collaborated widely. Taking examples from painting, architecture, and drawing, the lecture suggests how the works of Michelangelo and Raphael suggest a distinct model for aesthetic invention and exploration.

Celebrating Conservation: A Series of Conversations on Its Past, Present, and Future

November 14–December 5, 2022VirtualCohosted with the Division of Conservation, National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery’s conservation division and the Center cohosted a series of virtual moderated discussions on the depth and breadth of art conservation, its history and myriad collaborations, and its role in preserving tangible and intangible heritage. The program consisted of four sessions that reflect on the state of the field and identify innovative paths forward.

Each session featured three distinguished speakers engaged in an hour-long, live discussion moderated by conservation division staff. Prerecorded talks from all speakers as well as recordings of the live discussions were available for streaming until February 28, 2023.

**November 14: “Preserving Our Past: Conservation in America”**Debra Hess Norris, University of Delaware and Winterthur/UD Program in Art ConservationSoon Kai Poh, The Museum of Modern ArtMatthew Hayes, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and the Pietro Edwards Society for Art Conservation

Moderated by Michelle Facini, senior paper conservator, paper conservation, National Gallery of Art

**November 21: “Conserving Collections Now for Future Generations”**Anne-Imelda Radice, Institute of Museum and Library Services and National Endowment for the HumanitiesJane E. Klinger, United States Holocaust MuseumJennifer Jae Gutierrez, Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology

Moderated by Sarah S. Wagner, senior conservator and department head, photograph conservation, National Gallery of Art

**November 28: “Evolving Innovation in 21st-Century Conservation”**Héctor Berdecia-Hernández, Centro de Conservación y Restauración de Puerto RicoLora Angelova, The National Archives, UKPip Laurenson, University College London

Moderated by Barbara H. Berrie, senior conservation scientist and department head, scientific research, National Gallery of Art

**December 5: “What Our Future Holds: Preservation for All”**Pamela Hatchfield, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (emerita), and Held in TrustSanchita Balachandran, Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and Johns Hopkins UniversityIsabel Rivera-Collazo, University of California, San Diego

Moderated by Sue Ann Chui, painting conservator, painting conservation, National Gallery of Art

Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium

**Staking Claim: Latinx Art and US American Experiences**January 20, 2023East Building Auditorium and live streamed

Organized in close collaboration with E. Carmen Ramos, chief curatorial and conservation officer, National Gallery of Art, and Adriana Zavala, Andrew W. Mellon Professor and associate professor of History of Art and Architecture and Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University

**Latinx Art and Empire**Introductions by Steven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and E. Carmen Ramos, National Gallery of Art

Terezita RomoAdjunct Faculty, Chicana/Chicano Studies, University of California, Davis“Xavier Martinez and Hernando Villa: Envisioning a Mexican-American Art in California”

Taína CaragolCurator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian“Echoes of 1898 in the Works of Latinx Artists”

Kency CornejoAssociate Professor, Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art, University of New Mexico“Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Latinx Art in the Face of Empire”

Presentations followed by a discussion moderated by E. Carmen Ramos, chief curatorial and conservation officer, National Gallery of Art

**Intersections and Collaborations**Yasmin RamirezIndependent Curator“Mapping the Harlem Renaissance West to East”

Susanna V. TemkinCurator, El Museo del Barrio“The Origins, Legacies, and Emancipatory Potential of Amalia Mesa-Bains’s *Domesticana*”

Robb HernándezAssociate Professor, Fordham University“Unfinished: The Queer Necropolitics of *Homombre LA*”

Presentations followed by a discussion moderated by Deborah Cullen-Morales, program officer, Mellon Foundation

**Art of Necessity: Juan Sánchez in Dialogue with Adriana Zavala**Juan SánchezVisual Artist and Professor, Studio Art, Hunter College, CUNY

Adriana ZavalaAndrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts; Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture and Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University

The conversation began with a streaming of *UNKNOWN BORICUA STREAMING: A Nuyorican State of Mind* (2011).

Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium presenters and moderators, January 2023

Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art

**53rd Annual Sessions**March 3–4, 2023

Cosponsored with the Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of MarylandUniversity of Maryland / West Building Lecture Hall and live streamed

Since 1971 the Center has partnered with the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland to present this annual symposium that brings together museum and academic communities and provides a platform for the latest research from graduate students in our region.

**Friday, March 3***Evening Session*Paul Chaat Smith, Smithsonian National Museum of the American IndianGeorge Levitine Lecture in Art History“Weaponizing Nostalgia: Notes on the Absence and Presence of Indians in American Life”

**Saturday, March 4***Morning Session*Introduction and session moderated by Steven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Annie Maloney, Emory University“Saving Roman Painting: The Antiquarian Reproductions of Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635–1700)”Introducer: Sarah McPhee

Jordan Hillman, University of Delaware“Jules-Alexandre Grün: ‘An Enemy of the Authorities’?”Introducer: Margaret Werth

Maria Puzyreva, University of Pennsylvania“Hidden in the Landscape: Imperial Propaganda in Tokuriki Tomikichirō’s Wartime Prints”Introducer: Julie Nelson Davis

Marco Polo Juarez Cruz, University of Maryland“Entering Muralist Abstraction: Reimaging the Mexican Pavilion at the Osaka World’s Fair (1970)”Introducer: Abigail McEwen

*Afternoon Session*Session moderated by Emily Catherine Egan, University of Maryland

Kyle Marini, Penn State University“Two-Ply Art History: Parsing Threads of Iconographic Continuity and Rupture in Colonial Inca Embroidery”Introducer: Amara Solari

Kate Sunderlin, Virginia Commonwealth University“Medium and Myth in a Southern City: Plaster in the Studio of Edward Virginius Valentine and the Valentine Museum”Introducer: Tobias Wofford

Kathryn Carney, University of Pittsburgh“Modernizing the Body at German Hygiene Exhibitions, 1911–1930”Introducer: Barbara McCloskey

Jessica Orzulak, Duke University“Transcendent Futurisms: The Photography of Cara Romero”Introducer: Peter M. Lukehart

The Work in the World: Thinking through *Called to Create*

March 10, 2023East Building Auditorium and live streamedIn conjunction with the exhibition *Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South*

Organized in close collaboration with Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of the department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art, and Kanitra Fletcher, associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic art, National Gallery of Art

**Book Reading**Lisa Gail Collins read an excerpt from her forthcoming book *Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt*.

**Artist Conversation**Steven Nelson, dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, moderated a conversation among artists Sanford Biggers, vanessa german, Tau Lewis, Christopher Myers, and Renée Stout.

**Musical performance**Artist Lonnie Holley performed songs from his new album *Oh Me Oh My*.

“The Work in the World: Thinking through *Called to Create”* presenters and study day participants, March 2023

*The Forest *with Alexander Nemerov and Philip Kennicott

March 31, 2023West Building Lecture Hall and live streamed

Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University, and Philip Kennicott, *The Washington Post*, discussed Nemerov’s newest book *The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s*. A book signing followed the discussion. Nemerov’s 2017 Mellon Lectures formed the basis for *The Forest*.

James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora

**Shaping Space: African American Artists in Public Art and Private Collections**April 14, 2023Cosponsored with Howard UniversityEast Building Auditorium

**Opening Remarks**Steven Nelson, dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts; Phylicia Rashad, dean, Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, Howard University; and Raimi Gbadamosi, chair, Department of Art, Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, Howard University

Program moderated by Melanee C. Harvey, associate professor of art history and chair of the James A. Porter Colloquium, Howard University

**Opening Lecture**“Unknown, Unknown: A Provisional Architecture of Black Commemoration”Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and professor in African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University

Introducer: Dana Goodridge, Howard University undergraduate intern, 2022–2024

**Building the Change We Seek: Art and Architecture**Panel introduced and moderated by Sandy Bellamy, lecturer, Howard University

Keith Anderson, interim deputy mayor for planning and economic development, Government of the District of ColumbiaCurtis Clay, director of architecture, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, US Department of StateJay Coleman, artistCurry Hackett, lecturer, School of Architecture, University of TennesseeRonnie McGhee, College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects; lecturer, Department of Architecture, Howard University

***UZIKEE: Washington DC’s Ancestral Sculptor***A partial screening of the documentary directed and produced by Doug Harris, 2021

Uzikee Nelson, artist and Porter Colloquium lifetime achievement award recipient

Introducer: Munyang Tengen, Howard University undergraduate intern, 2022–2024

**Shaping Space: A Conversation with Keith Morrison**Keith Morrison, artist and Porter Colloquium lifetime achievement award recipient, in conversation with Camille Brown, assistant curator, The Phillips Collection

Introducer: Sacha Reid, Howard University undergraduate intern, 2022–2024

**Keynote Artist Program**Melvin Edwards, artist and lifetime achievement award recipient, in conversation with Tobias Wofford, associate professor of art history, Virginia Commonwealth University

Introducers: Taylor Whitman, Howard University, and Salihah Aakil Bey, Howard University

**James A. Porter Distinguished Lecture**“Public Art as Community Praxis”Renée Ater, provost visiting associate professor, Africana Studies, Brown University

**Floyd Coleman Distinguished Artist Conversation**Martha Jackson Jarvis, artist and Porter Colloquium lifetime achievement award recipient, in conversation with Njena Jarvis, artist

Conversation moderated by Lauren Glover, public art manager, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

Introducers: Yakeh Rider, Howard University, and Marissa Turley, Howard University

Njena Jarvis, Martha Jackson Jarvis, and Lauren Glover at the James A. Porter Colloquium, April 2023

The 72nd A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

**Vital Signs: The Visual Cultures of Maya Writing**April 16–May 21, 2023Stephen D. Houston, Brown UniversityEast Building Auditorium and live streamed

Maya writing of ancient Mexico and Central America represents a system of script and picture that never quite split apart yet never quite fused. In clouding such boundaries, text and image confound the idea of representation, and thus question distinctions between written records, depiction, and life itself. Recent decipherments of the script bring unexpected views to the surface, allowing worlds long silent to disclose their secrets.

The lectures were held over six consecutive Sundays in the East Building Auditorium and streamed on YouTube Live. 

## Programs by Invitation

The Center organizes small gatherings throughout the year, ranging from study days to thematic seminars.

Afro-Atlantic Histories/Afro-Atlantic Futures

June 1–2, 2022Study day in conjunction with the exhibition *Afro-Atlantic Histories*

Co-organized with the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, with support from the Ford Foundation

**Participants**Andrea Alvarez, Albright-Knox Art GalleryOmar Berrada, The Cooper UnionVivian Crockett, New MuseumMolly Donovan, National Gallery of ArtKeyna Eleison, Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de JaneiroKanitra Fletcher, National Gallery of ArtMalik Gaines, New York UniversityNaiomy Guerrero, City University of New YorkSaidiya Hartman, Columbia UniversityAyrson Heráclito, artist and curatorJaime Lauriano, artistThomas Lax, The Museum of Modern ArtAndre Lepecki, New York UniversityDiane Lima, curator, writer, and researcherFabiana Lopes, New York UniversityMarcia Loureiro, translatorErica Malunguinho, Brazilian State Legislature and activistMichelle Mattiuzzi, performer, artist, writer, and researcherHélio Menezes, Universidade de São PauloAline Motta, artistPaulo Nazareth, Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisSteven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsE. Carmen Ramos, National Gallery of ArtWill Rawls, artist and choreographerRafael RG, artistXuxa Rodriguez, Crystal Bridges Museum of American ArtCameron Rowland, artistThiago de Paula Souza, curator and researcherRosana Paulino, artist, educator, and curatorJoceval Santos, researcherSandra Silva, international relations and policy expertDenise da Silva, University of British ColumbiaIgor Simões, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do SulMirna Soares, translatorRenée Stout, artistClaudia Zapata, The University of Texas at Austin

Predoctoral Seminar

**Intercultural Art and Theory**May 31–June 3, 2022Organized by Nisa Ari, Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2023

Each year, the Center postdoctoral fellow in their first year of residence designs and directs an intensive weeklong seminar for the predoctoral fellows in residence, including readings, discussions, and visits to local institutions.

**Participants**Luke A. Fidler, Paul Mellon Fellow, 2019–2022Christine Garnier, Wyeth Fellow, 2020–2022Isabella Lores-Chavez, Samuel H. Kress Fellow, 2020–2022Mohit Manohar, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, 2020–2022Rachel Catherine Patt, David E. Finley Fellow, 2019–2022Catherine H. Popovici, Ittleson Fellow, 2020–2022Erhan Tamur, Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2020–2022 

Sydney J. Freedberg Dialogue on Italian Ar

**Raphael Redux**November 7, 2022Cammy Brothers, Northeastern UniversityNational Gallery of Art

A discussion of the 2023 Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art, “Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Genius Paradox”

Art Academies: Europe and the Americas, c. 1600–1900

November 17–18, 2022Organized by Peter M. Lukehart, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and Ulrich Pfisterer, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, with Oscar E. Vázquez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

These seminars brought together specialists of the academies and schools of art of the 17th through 19th centuries in both Europe and the Americas. In recent decades, art-historical scholarship on artists’ training has focused on the intersectionality, global entanglements, sociocultural significance, and political contexts of the production, distribution, reception, display, and performance of objects, images, and their histories. Yet, research that takes a comparative analysis of the definitions, functions, and differing contexts of institutions of arts training has been almost completely absent.

The Art Academies seminars aimed to make a significant contribution in this direction. Examining academies of art and arts organizations in Europe and the Americas, the program sought to evaluate the ideological and material differences among and within academies. It did so in order to highlight the specific academic dissonances that counter the chorus of publications that either drown out the individual contributions of local institutions or, contrarily, remain silent about the possibility of other—often outside—models. The differences afford us a more nuanced and complex understanding concerning academies that were in fact adapted and shaped as much by local concerns and needs as by international trends across time and oceans.

**Keynote Lecture**“Locating the Body of Work: The Place of Pedagogy in Academies of Art”Oscar E. Vázquez, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignEast Building Seminar Room and live streamed

**Participants**Buket Altinoba, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMaría Isabel Baldasarre, Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, ArgentinaÉmilie Beck Saiello, Centre Norbert EliasPablo Berríos González, Santiago, ChileDavid Brigham, Historical Society of PennsylvaniaCarolina Brook, RomePaul Duro, University of RochesterRay Hernández-Durán, University of New MexicoJongwoo Jeremy Kim, Carnegie Mellon UniversityPeter M. Lukehart, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsEsperanza Navarrete Martínez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San FernandoCésar Peña, Universidad de los AndesTrinidad Pérez Arias, Universidad Andina Simón BolívarUlrich Pfisterer, Zentralinstitut für KunstgeschichteChristiane Salge, Technische Universität DarmstadtVita Segreto, Accademia di Belle Arti di RomaUrsula Ströbele, Zentralinstitut für KunstgeschichteOscar E. Vázquez, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDaryle Williams, University of California, Riverside

Curating Global Medieval Art: Questioning Paradigms and Perspectives

February 24, 2023West Building Lecture HallIn conjunction with the 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

This roundtable on curating global medieval art brought together curators representing Washington, DC–area collections. Panelists were asked to address what “medieval,” “internationalisms,” and “global” mean to them.  They also spoke about the structural and institutional barriers toward accomplishing an “international” or “global” approach in their curatorial, scholarly, and public-facing work, and considered possible solutions. How might institutions foster collaboration between curatorial departments and empower curators to collaborate with other institutions to present a more “global” view of the medieval period?

**Panelists**Ellen Hoobler, The Walters Art MuseumEmma Natalya Stein, National Museum of Asian Art, SmithsonianKevin Tervala, Baltimore Museum of ArtElizabeth Dospěl Williams, Dumbarton Oaks

Moderated by Steven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

 

“Curating Global Medieval Art: Questioning Paradigms and Perspectives,” February 2023. Photo: Matthew J. Westerby

The Work in the World: Thinking through *Called to Create*

March 10, 2023Study day in conjunction with the exhibition *Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South***

Organized in close collaboration with Harry Cooper, senior curator and head of the department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art; Kanitra Fletcher, associate curator of African American and Afro-Diasporic art, National Gallery of Art; and Jennifer Riddell, interpretation manager, National Gallery of Art

**Participants**Maxwell Anderson, Souls Grown Deep FoundationDaphne Barbour, National Gallery of ArtJohn Beardsley, Washington, DCJessica Bell Brown, Baltimore Museum of ArtJulia Burke, National Gallery of ArtLisa Gail Collins, Vassar CollegeLynne Cooke, National Gallery of ArtHarry Cooper, National Gallery of ArtKanitra Fletcher, National Gallery of ArtConnor Hamm, Smithsonian American Art MuseumBernard L. Herman, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAmy Hughes, National Gallery of ArtDemo Jeffrey, National Gallery of ArtLeslie King-Hammond, Maryland Institute College of ArtJay Krueger, National Gallery of ArtLaStarsha D. McGarity, National Gallery of ArtSteven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsJudy Ozone, National Gallery of Art

A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Dialogue

May 1, 2023Stephen D. Houston, Brown University72nd A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts

A discussion of the 2023 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, *Vital Signs: The Visual Cultures of Maya Writing*

Edmond J. Safra Colloquy

**The Catalogue Raisonné: A Social Practice**May 4–5, 2023Organized by Gail Feigenbaum, Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2023

The Edmond J. Safra Colloquy was designed to bring together thinkers—including art historians, administrators, curators, and emerging professionals—to open an exchange of information and ideas. This year’s Safra Colloquy explored the possibilities and challenges of today’s catalogue raisonné projects.

**Keynote Lecture**“Oeuvromania in the Age of Reason”Antoinette Friedenthal, independent scholar, PotsdamWest Building Lecture Hall and live streamed

**Participants**Nisa Ari, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsAngélica Becerra, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsMaria Bonta de la Pezuela, National Gallery of ArtKaira M. Cabañas, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsH. Perry Chapman, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsYiran Chi, National Gallery of ArtGail Feigenbaum, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsDavida Fernández-Barkan, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsIvan Gaskell, Bard Graduate CenterElizabeth Gorayeb, Wildenstein Plattner InstituteKendra Greendeer, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsAdam Greenhalgh, National Gallery of ArtAnne Helmreich, Archives of American ArtElizabeth Honig, University of MarylandChristopher Lakey, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsAlison Langmead, University of PittsburghAlexandra Libby, National Gallery of ArtGloria de Liberali, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsPeter M. Lukehart, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsCarolyn Greene McKee, National Gallery of ArtAnthony J. Meyer, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsNancy Micklewright, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsMichaela Milgrom, National Gallery of ArtMary Morton, National Gallery of ArtLaili Nasr, National Gallery of ArtSteven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsChristopher Nygren, University of PittsburghEllen Prokop, National Gallery of ArtKaty Rogers, Dedalus FoundationCatherine Southwick, National Gallery of ArtCaitlin Sweeney, Wildenstein Plattner InstituteWilliam Tronzo, University of California, San DiegoEmiko K. Usui, National Gallery of ArtMatthew J. Westerby, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsBetsy Wieseman, National Gallery of ArtAaron Wile, National Gallery of ArtFulvia Zaninelli, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsAdriana Zavala, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Antoinette Friedenthal presents her keynote lecture at the Safra Colloquy, May 2023

## Fellows’ Presentations

Colloquia, presented by Center professors and senior fellows, and shoptalks, given by postdoctoral fellows, predoctoral fellows, and guest scholars, occur throughout the academic year. Colloquia are public programs held in the West Building Lecture Hall. Shoptalks are by invitation.

Colloquia CCCXXXV–CCCXLIII 

September 29, 2022H. Perry Chapman, Kress-Beinecke Professor*Rembrandt’s Art History: Rivaling Rubens*

October 27, 2022Alessandra Raengo, Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, fall 2022*The Liquidity of the Black Arts*

December 1, 2022Morten Steen Hansen, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, fall 2022*The Anti-Idol at the Escorial*

January 12, 2023Megan R. Luke, William C. Seitz Senior Fellow*Mother Right: The Prehistory of Modern Sculpture*

January 30, 2023Angela Ho, Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow*Imagining China in the 17th Century: The Dutch East India Company’s Embassies to Beijing*

February 23, 2022Christopher Lakey, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2023*Space and Gold in Late Medieval Painting*

March 23, 2023Sarah Lopez, Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, spring 2023*Architectural History Is Migrant History: Cantera Stone and Construction Labor on Both Sides of the US-Mexico Boundary*

April 6, 2023Rune Nyord, Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow*In the Catacomb of Metempsychosis: Seeing the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife in the Early 19th Century*

April 20, 2023Marius B. Hauknes, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow*Aquatic Chaos: Images of Cosmic Disorder in Medieval Art*

Shoptalks 261–267 

October 20, 2022Davida Fernández-Barkan, David E. Finley Fellow*A New School of Art: Indigenismo, Internationalism, and Interwar American Mural Painting*

November 3, 2022Rheagan Martin, Samuel H. Kress Fellow*Seeing Through: The Possibility of Translucency in Incunabula*

December 8, 2022Anthony J. Meyer, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow*Sticky Flesh, Folded Skin: The Animate Making of Nahua Religious Leaders*

January 5, 2023Cleo Nisse, Paul Mellon Fellow*Unraveling Canvas: Fabric and Facture in Early Modern Venetian Painting*

January 19, 2023Delphine Sims, Wyeth Fellow*Outcroppings of Black History: Xaviera Simmons’s Utah Photographs*

March 2, 2023Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, Twenty-Four-Month Chester Dale Fellow*The Continuous Line in Vera Molnár’s Computer Graphics*

March 30, 2023Kendra Greendeer, Paul Mellon Guest Predoctoral Fellow*(re)EMERGENCE: Performing Indigenous Feminist Futures*

Morten Steen Hansen presents his research, September 2022

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