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Bettman Lecture Series: Rebecca VanDiver, 'How to Design a New Tradition: Placemaking in the Art and Career of Loïs Mailou Jones'

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April 3, 2023
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
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612 Schermerhorn Hall

Rebecca VanDiver
Associate Professor and Robert Penn Warren Center Faculty Fellow 2022-2023, Vanderbilt University

How to Design a New Tradition: Placemaking in the Art and Career of Loïs Mailou Jones

The African American artist Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-1998) spent most of her professional career living in Washington, D.C. serving on the faculty at Howard University. In this lecture, VanDiver will consider the significance of place—Martha's Vineyard, Paris, and Haiti—as well as Jones's claiming of art (historical) space in the first half of her career (1920-1960)