2023 Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures - Day 1

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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2023 Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellows Lectures - Day 1

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From May 17-19, 2023, the Smithsonian American Art Museum presented a series of lectures by the museum’s 2022–2023 research fellows. This recording captures the six talks presented in Sessions I and II of the series on May 17. For more information on SAAM’s fellowship program, visit https://americanart.si.edu/research/fellowships. The first session is focused on the visual culture of America’s contested ground, featuring lectures from three predoctoral fellows, Manon Gaudet, Amy Kahng, and Zoe Weldon-Yochim. Their presentations take up the widely distributed “Indian Land for Sale” poster, the internment landscapes of Chiura Obata, and Jack Malotte’s atomic “The End,” foregrounding indigeneity in the study of these works and bringing specificity to the politics of landscape. The second session centers on the built environment with contributions from predoctoral fellows Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, Jessica Larson, and Connor Hamm. Their presentations look closely at the building, performance, and display of Tressa ‘Grandma’ Prisbrey’s Bottle Village; architectural spaces for the care of Black children in New York City’s San Juan Hill during the progressive era; and the politics of presentation at the turn-of-the-century Florida Sub-Tropical Exposition. Session I Moderated by Melissa Ho, curator of twentieth-century art, Smithsonian American Art Museum  - Manon Gaudet, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, Yale University, “Picturing (Dis)Possession: Land, Likeness, and the General Allotment Act” - Amy Kahng, Patricia and Philip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, Stony Brook University, “Unsettled and Unrooted Ground: Chiura Obata’s Internment Landscapes” - Zoe Weldon-Yochim, Douglass Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Fighter Jets and Fallout: Attending to Militarized Western Shoshone Lands and Diverse Multi-Being Assemblages in Jack Malotte’s The End”  Session II  Moderated by Robin Veder, executive editor of “American Art,” Smithsonian American Art Museum  - Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Building Feminist Bloodlines: Tressa ‘Grandma’ Prisbrey’s Bottle Village and the Los Angeles Woman’s Building” - Jessica Larson, Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, “No Substitute for Justice Withheld”: Building Landscapes for Black Childhood in Manhattan, 1900–1915” - Connor Hamm, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, “Trouble in Paradise: The Florida Sub-Tropical Exposition”

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