Explore Contemporary Art and the “Me Too” Movement

Explore the role of contemporary art in confronting sexual violence in apowerful in-person lecture with art historian Vivien Green Fryd. Tuesday, March 14, 5 p.m. ET

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Bringing the Unspeakable to Light

Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture with Vivien Green Fryd
Tuesday, March 14, 5 p.m. ET

In Person
Smithsonian American Art Museum
McEvoy Auditorium
8th and G Streets, NW

Join art historian Vivien Green Fryd for a discussion on the intersection of contemporary art and the “Me Too” Movement. Fryd was the 2022 recipient of SAAM’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art for her book, Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970. This publication focuses on the role of contemporary art in challenging society to acknowledge and legally address rape, incest, and other forms of sexual violence. In her lecture, Fryd will reflect how she has conscientiously brought this difficult material into university and museum settings.

Content warning: SAAM seeks to provide a safe space for all attendees; this lecture will amplify the voices of survivors of sexual violence.

About Vivien Green Fryd
Fryd is a professor emerita in the history of art and architecture department at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815–1865, and Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe. She is currently writing Henry Ries’s Photographs of Berlin Iconic Buildings and Monuments, 1937–2004. In addition, Fryd has published essays in Panorama, Art Bulletin, American Art Journal, American Art, and Winterthur Portfolio.

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