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Elizabeth Brown is a seventh-year doctoral student in Duke University's Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and a 2023-2024 Global and Justice Fellow. Brown received her B.A. in Art History from Manhattanville College, New York. She completed her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Before entering the doctoral program at Duke, Elizabeth held positions at the Guggenheim Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem in New York.
This week, she spoke at the John Hope Franklin Center’s ‘Wednesdays at the Center’ series with her lecture ‘Theaster Gates and The Glass Lantern Slide Collection: Sixty Thousand Ways to Unsettle an Art Historical Canon’. In this talk, she discussed the motivations behind Chicago-based multimedia artist, potter, and urban planner Theaster Gates's bold decision to acquire the University of Chicago Art History Department's deaccessioned collection of sixty thousand glass lantern slides in 2006. The event was co-sponsored by JHFC Global Equity and Justice Fellowship.
Website: https://jhfc.duke.edu
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Elizabeth Brown is a seventh-year doctoral student in Duke University's Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and a 2023-2024 Global and Justice Fellow. Brown received her B.A. in Art History from Manhattanville College, New York. She completed her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Before entering the doctoral program at Duke, Elizabeth held positions at the Guggenheim Museum and The Studio Museum in Harlem in New York.
This week, she spoke at the John Hope Franklin Center’s ‘Wednesdays at the Center’ series with her lecture ‘Theaster Gates and The Glass Lantern Slide Collection: Sixty Thousand Ways to Unsettle an Art Historical Canon’. In this talk, she discussed the motivations behind Chicago-based multimedia artist, potter, and urban planner Theaster Gates's bold decision to acquire the University of Chicago Art History Department's deaccessioned collection of sixty thousand glass lantern slides in 2006. The event was co-sponsored by JHFC Global Equity and Justice Fellowship.
Website: https://jhfc.duke.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/duke-university-john-hope-franklin-center
Instagram: instagram.com/jhfc_duke
Facebook: facebook.com/jhfcduke
X (Twitter): twitter.com/jhfcduke
