Photo: SAAM 2022–2023 Fellows, courtesy of subjects
Join the 2022–2023 class of Smithsonian American Art Museum research fellows as they present new scholarship on a range of topics and time periods, media and messages. Speakers will share research discoveries and offer fresh perspectives on works of American art.
Wednesday, May 17
Session I: 1–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderated by Melissa Ho, curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Manon Gaudet, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, Yale University, “Picturing (Dis)Possession: Land, Likeness, and the General Allotment Act”
- Amy Kahng, Patricia and Philip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, Stony Brook University, “Unsettled and Unrooted Ground: Chiura Obata’s Internment Landscapes”
- Zoe Weldon-Yochim, Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Fighter Jets and Fallout: Attending to Militarized Western Shoshone Lands and Diverse Multi-Being Assemblages in Jack Malotte’s The End”
Session II: 3:15–5 p.m. ET
Moderated by Robin Veder, executive editor of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Building Feminist Bloodlines: Tressa ‘Grandma’ Prisbrey’s Bottle Village and the Los Angeles Woman’s Building”
- Jessica Larson, Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “'No Substitute for Justice Withheld': Building Landscapes for Black Childhood in Manhattan, 1900-1915”
- Connor Hamm, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, “Trouble in Paradise: The Florida Sub-Tropical Exposition”
Thursday, May 18
Session III: 1–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderated by Eleanor Harvey, senior curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Katie Loney, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, “Showroom Fictions: Marketing Indian Art in the United States, 1880s-1920s”
- Sarah Emily Rogers Morris, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Chicago, “A Photographic ‘Trip Around the World’: Visual Instruction in a Transnational Frame, 1890–1940”
- Grace Kuipers, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, University of California, Berkeley, “‘The Surface Has Hardly Been Scratched’: Spratling Silver, Mineral Imperialism, and U.S. Developmentalism in Mexico”
Session IV: 3:15–5 p.m. ET
Moderated by Grace Yasumura, assistant curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Rachel Burke, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, “Fugitive Grounds: Writing in the Archival Absence of Henry Box Brown’s Mirror of Slavery”
- Madeleine Harrison, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, “Salvaging Palmer Hayden's Seascapes”
- Claire Ittner, Will Barnet Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, “Materiality, Objecthood, and (Self) Possession in Eldzier Cortor’s Sea Islands Works”
Friday, May 19
Session V: 1–2:45 p.m. ET
Moderated by Saisha Grayson, curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Ellen Yoshi Tani, Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Black Conceptual Practice”
- Amy E. Crum, SAAM Predoctoral Fellow in Latinx Art, University of California, Los Angeles, “Enacting the Barrio: Murals and Museums in Chicanx L.A.”
- Ariel Evans, William H. Truettner Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, “Talk That Talk: Carrie Mae Weems’ Family Pictures and Stories in Three Audiences”
Session VI: 3:15–4:30 p.m. ET
Moderated by Karen Lemmey, Lucy S. Rhame Curator of Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Maki Kaneko, Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art, University of Kansas, “Narrating Life on the Streets: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani”
- Marisa Lerer, George Gurney Senior Fellow, Manhattan College, “Memorializing Tragedies Across Borders in the Work of Antonio Martorell and Freddy Rodríguez”
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