To ARLIS/NA members:

   We are seeking a recorder for the session:  "Women Artists of the American West." The session is scheduled for Monday, May 5, 3:30 to 5 p.m.

 

If you are interested in being the recorder for this session, please respond directly to Mari Russell at, [log in to unmask]  Thank you.

 

Moderators:  Mari Russell, Ph.D., Director of the Academic Support Center at Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas and Eumie Imm-Stroukoff, Librarian and Assistant Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center.

 

Description of the session follows:  Why care about women artists and especially Women Artists of the American West? Have these artists made any difference to the art world as we know it?  Come and find out why these women artists have made a difference.  This session will focus on women artists of the American West, who currently live or once lived west of the Mississippi River, who have made substantial contributions to the art world.

 

Curators, scholars, and artists will speak on the work of women artists of the American West who represent various cultural groups and philosophies of art. The cultural groups that will be represented include Native Americans and Anglo Americans.  Concepts of community, identity, spirituality, and locality will be explored along with images of these artists' work.

Together, these women artists represent a partial spectrum of ethnicities and cultures that comprise the American West.  There will be a printed bibliography of resources available.

 

Speakers:

Annette Stott, Professor of Art History at the University of Denver.

"Creative Women in the 'Old' West"

 

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Research Center. "Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon:

Establishing and Shaping the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and its Collections"

 

C. Maxx Stevens, Seminole/Muscogee Nations of the Oklahoma Region and Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

"Artwork by C. Maxx Stevens"