School of Art Visiting Speaker Series
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Jessica L. Horton is an associate professor of modern and contemporary Native North American art at the University of Delaware. Her first book, Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation (2017), traces the impact of Native American land-based struggles on artists working internationally since the 1970s. Her second book, Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art and Reciprocity, 1953–1973 (2024) examines how artists mobilized Indigenous cultures of diplomacy to place the earth at the center of Cold War international relations. Her scholarship has been supported by the Clark Art Institute, the Getty Research Center, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Book Award, among other honors.
- Location
- Dudley Recital Hall University of Houston
- Cost
- Free
- Contact
- UH
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