Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy
Dennis Harper is curator of collections and exhibitions at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. Harper s recent curatorial projects includeFacing South: Portraits of Southern Artists by Jerry Siegel;Bacon Level, Hickory Flat, and the Illustrious Potteries of Randolph and Chambers Counties, Alabama; andAs Above, So Below: Recent Work by Scherer & Ouporov, which received the Southeastern Museums Conference Award of Excellence in 2011. Harper has written on American art from 1930 to 1950, among other subjects, for publications at the Georgia Museum of Art, where he was curator of exhibitions until 2008.