RE-ENVISIONING HISTORIES OF AMERICAN ART Panel Three
Panel Three of Three
"Redefining 'American' Art Across Disciplinary Boundaries"
Recent scholarship has challenged the assumed neutrality of the scholarly voice, especially in the construction of the "canon" of American art. Thinking about our own voices and multifaceted positionalities, this panel aims to reconsider the ways in which we define "American" art. How do we navigate historic and ongoing negotiations of who is "American" and the imposed absences that have partly defined that discussion? How do we teach American art in ways that speak to the past, present, and future? What possibilities do interdisciplinary approaches offer to the study and exhibition of artists and media traditionally left out of the art historical canon?
PANELISTS:
Kirsten Pai Buick, Professor of Art History & Director of Africana Studies, University of New Mexico
Teresa Montoya, Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Alexandra Thomas, Curatorial Research Associate in African Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College & Doctoral Candidate, Yale University
Moderator: Hazel Carby, Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies, Yale University & Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College