Presenting a New Generation of Scholars

In-Person SAAM Fellows Lectures
Wednesday, May 17— Friday, May 19, 1– 5 p.m.
 
Free, no registration required
Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and G Streets, NW

Join us for the first in-person fellows lecture series in four years! Seventeen fellows from the class of 2022–2023 will present new scholarship on a range of topics and time periods, media and messages. This multi-afternoon program will highlight a new generation of scholars who are pushing the boundaries of U.S. art history.

SAAM’s fellowship program has advanced scholarship on American art, craft, and visual culture for more than fifty years. The oldest and largest fellowship program in the world for the study of American art, it provides graduate students and postdoctoral scholars of U.S. art and visual culture with financial aid, unparalleled research resources, and a world-class network of colleagues.

Wednesday, May 17
Session 1: Consider the visual culture of America’s contested ground, from posters selling Indigenous land to artistic responses to Japanese internment and nuclear weapons testing.

Session 2: Focus on the built environment with talks that address a range of architectural spaces created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Thursday, May 18
Session 1: Examine America’s role within late nineteenth and early twentieth-century global exchange networks.

Session 2: Gain new perspectives on artworks from the antebellum period to the Civil Rights Era by Henry Box Brown, Palmer Hayden, and Eldzier Cortor.
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Friday, May 19
Session 1: Explore identity and community in late twentieth-century exhibitions by the conceptual artist Charles Gaines, artist collective Los Four, and photographer Carrie Mae Weems.

Session 2: Learn from SAAM’s senior fellows about works in the public sphere by contemporary artists Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, Antonio Martorell, and Freddy Rodríguez.
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Image credits:
SAAM 2022–2023 Fellows, courtesy of subjects