American Identities on Land and at Sea

Welcome & Opening Remarks – 10:00 am
Katherine Manthorne, Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Shannon Vittoria, Eva McGraw, and Bree Lehman, Co-Organizers

Keynote Address – 10:15 am
"New Methodologies of Land and Sea in American Art"
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panel One – 11:00 am
"Hydrographic Aesthetics: Surveying and Representing British America"
Emily Clare Casey, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware

"Oppositional Landscapes: Pre-Raphaelitism in America"
Sophie Lynford, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, Yale University

"Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way: How Immigration Informs Image"
Whitney Thompson. Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Panel Two – 1:30 pm
"Plumbing the Alaskan Littoral with Eadweard Muybridge"
Elizabeth W. Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University

"The Global and the Intimate: A Cotton Landscape and American Origins"
Michelle Foa, Associate Professor of Art History, Tulane University

"Painting on “the rough edge of despair”: Martin Johnson Heade’s Florida Marshscapes"
Ross Barrett, Assistant Professor, History of Art & Architecture, Boston University

Panel Three – 3:30 pm
"Homer's "Regret": Explaining The Gulf Stream"
Stephanie L. Herdrich, Assistant Research Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Remixing The Gulf Stream: Kerry James Marshall in the Wake of Winslow Homer"
Chanda Laine Carey, Andrew W. Mellon Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University

Panel Four – 4:30 pm
"Radical Seafaring: Andrea Grover and Mary Mattingly in Conversation"
Andrea Grover, Executive Director, Guild Hall, and Mary Mattingly, New York-Based Visual Artist

Evening Reception – 5:30 pm

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information about the conference, its participants, and organizers, please visit: http://americanidentities.org

Shannon Vittoria, Eva McGraw, and Bree Lehman, Co-Organizers