SAAM’s annual fellows’ lectures were presented as a series of Zoom webinars in 2020 while the museum was closed temporarily due to COVID-19. Recordings of several of these talks are now available via the links below. For further information, please email SAAMFellowships@si.edu.

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Session I: 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Moderator: Karen Lemmey, Lucy S. Rhame Curator of Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Dina Murokh, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of Southern California, “Painted in Oil, Printed into History: McKenney and Hall’s Black Hawk”

Christine Renee Garnier, Smithsonian Institution predoctoral fellow, Harvard University, “Silvered Frontiers: Theodore Baur’s The Buffalo Hunt in 1876”

Session II: 2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Moderator: Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Alba Campo Rosillo, predoctoral fellow, National Portrait Gallery, University of Delaware, “Portraiture and Risk in G.P.A. Healy’s Chicago Period, 1855–1867”

Caroline Riley, Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of California, Davis, “Art in Wartime: MoMA’s First International Exhibition in 1938”

Thursday, June 18, 2020

2:00 to 4:15 p.m.

Moderator: Saisha Grayson, curator of time-based media, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Ana Cristina Perry, predoctoral fellow in Latinx art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, CUNY Graduate Center, “Exhibiting the Agony and the Joy of Puerto Rican Life: Boricua: Aquí y Allá”

Kyungso Min, Big Ten Academic Alliance Predoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Groovin’ in a Lacuna: Nam June Paik’s Satellite Intervention in the Global”