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Saturday, September 24, 2022 | 10:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Visit: nrm.org and RockwellCenter.org
Join us for all or part of Illustration and Race: Rethinking the History of Published Images
This symposium is generously funded with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Compelling conversations with illustrators, art directors, authors, and scholars will explore more than three hundred years of racial representation in published art and the role of mass-circulated imagery as a force in shaping public perception about people and groups of people. Presented in conjunction with Imprinted: Illustrating Race, the Museum’s current exhibition, this symposium will spark dialogue about the ways that art, advertising, and systems of publishing have helped to frame public opinion, and how the art of illustration is a force for change today.
Session One
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ILLUSTRATION AND RACE
A series of compelling talks by Heather Campbell Coyle, Ph.D; Karen Fang, Ph.D; Michele Bogart, Ph.D.; Theresa Leininger-Miller, Ph.D.; and Leonard Davis, followed by conversation with the commentators.
These concise presentations by Imprinted: Illustrating Race catalogue authors and exhibition lenders will focus on widely-circulated historical representations of race in the press and in popular culture that established a sense of American nationalism for white audiences through the subjugation of Indigenous, Black, and Asian people and cultures.
Topics and Speakers
Howard Pyle: Picturing the Black Presence in American History
Heather Campbell Coyle, Ph.D., Chief Curator and Curator of American Art, Delaware Art Museum
Who Has the Right Face for America? Asian and Black Stereotypes from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Karen Fang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English, University of Houston
Artwork and the Cream of Wheat Campaign, 1895-1930
Michele Bogart, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, SUNY Stony Brook
Are They Equal in the Eyes of the Law?
Theresa Leininger-Miller, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, University of Cincinnati
Witness to History: Collecting Black Americana
Leonard Davis, designer and collector
Saturday, September 24, 2022 | 10:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Visit: nrm.org and RockwellCenter.org
Join us for all or part of Illustration and Race: Rethinking the History of Published Images
This symposium is generously funded with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Compelling conversations with illustrators, art directors, authors, and scholars will explore more than three hundred years of racial representation in published art and the role of mass-circulated imagery as a force in shaping public perception about people and groups of people. Presented in conjunction with Imprinted: Illustrating Race, the Museum’s current exhibition, this symposium will spark dialogue about the ways that art, advertising, and systems of publishing have helped to frame public opinion, and how the art of illustration is a force for change today.
Session One
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ILLUSTRATION AND RACE
A series of compelling talks by Heather Campbell Coyle, Ph.D; Karen Fang, Ph.D; Michele Bogart, Ph.D.; Theresa Leininger-Miller, Ph.D.; and Leonard Davis, followed by conversation with the commentators.
These concise presentations by Imprinted: Illustrating Race catalogue authors and exhibition lenders will focus on widely-circulated historical representations of race in the press and in popular culture that established a sense of American nationalism for white audiences through the subjugation of Indigenous, Black, and Asian people and cultures.
Topics and Speakers
Howard Pyle: Picturing the Black Presence in American History
Heather Campbell Coyle, Ph.D., Chief Curator and Curator of American Art, Delaware Art Museum
Who Has the Right Face for America? Asian and Black Stereotypes from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Karen Fang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English, University of Houston
Artwork and the Cream of Wheat Campaign, 1895-1930
Michele Bogart, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, SUNY Stony Brook
Are They Equal in the Eyes of the Law?
Theresa Leininger-Miller, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, University of Cincinnati
Witness to History: Collecting Black Americana
Leonard Davis, designer and collector
