PORTAL at the National Portrait Gallery presents three online lectures this fall
Join PORTAL, the Scholarly Center of the National Portrait Gallery, for the final 2021 webinars in the Greenberg Steinhauser Forum in American Portraiture Conversation Series. Closed captioning will be provided.
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Tuesday, September 21 at 5 p.m. (ET)
Speakers: Philip Tinari, Director and CEO of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing and Ying-chen Peng, PhD, Assistant Professor at American University
Moderator: Dorothy Moss, PhD, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery and Coordinator of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative
In connection with the exhibition Hung Liu: portraits of the promised lands, this conversation will focus on Hung Liu’s artistic journey and explore his approach to portraiture in the context of Chinese historical and contemporary art. Registration is required to attend this free webinar.
Tuesday, October 5 at 5 p.m. (ET)
Speaker: Melanee Harvey, PhD, Assistant Professor and Art History Coordinator at Howard University
Q&A Moderator: Martha S. Jones, PhD, Presidential Professor of the Society of Black Alumni and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University
This presentation will examine the role of the artistic and visual representation strategies of Wilberforce University, one of the earliest historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), as an aesthetic idyll shaped by Bishop Daniel Payne and the Methodist Episcopal Bishops. Africans at the end of the 19th century. Registration is required to attend this free webinar.
Tuesday, November 16 at 5 p.m. (ET)
Speaker: Lauren Redniss, Artist, Author, MacArthur Fellow and Associate Professor at Parsons School of Design
Q&A Moderator: Sharyl Pahe-Short, Visitor Services Manager at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
This presentation will address Oak Flat’s unresolved conflict over Apache holy lands and private copper mining interests, the saga of westward expansion, and the resistance and resilience of Indigenous peoples. Registration is required to attend this free webinar.
For more details, visit npg.si.edu.
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