Upcoming

June 26, 2024. Women and the Arts Conference Forum Conference, National Gallery, London.

 

Select past talks & events

“Imprints and Erasures: A New Story of Art,” Annual Henri Zerner Lecture, Harvard University Department of Art and Architecture and Harvard Art Museums, April 23, 2024.

In Conversation with Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Yale Center for British Art, hosted by the Massachusetts State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Friends of NMWA, UK and Les Amis du NMWA, May 3, 2023. 

“Establishing a Female Lineage at the Royal Academy’s Show: Eliza Trotter, Angelica Kauffman, and the Intrigues of Lady Caroline Lamb,” Public Lecture Course, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, October 2022.

Book talk: Conversation with with Joseph Koerner at Brookline Booksmith, August 2022.

“Reframing the Canon: Myths and Makings of the Premodern Woman Artist,” keynote address for “Tender hands and rough stone:” Sculpture’s Stereotypes of Gender and Making (1550–2021), Erlangen, April 2022.

“Studio Business: Women Artists and Professionalism,” panel discussion at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, March 2022.

“Why Do We Think There Have Been No Great Women Artists? Revisiting the Archive and Practices of Gender Art/History,” Boston College, February 2021.

“Why Do We Think There Have Been No Great Women Artists? Reconsidering Linda Nochlin,” The Early Modern Studies Group at Harvard University History Workshop, Harvard University, November 2019.

“‘Only a woman by her clothing’: Becoming a Woman Artist in Revolutionary-era Britain and France,” Visual Representation, Materiality and the Medium Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, April 2019.

“‘A way to independence’: The Rise of Women Artists in Revolutionary-era Britain and France, 1760-1830,” Eighteenth-Century Seminar lecture series, Princeton University, Department of History and Humanities Council, November 2018.

“Exceptional, but not Exceptions: Women Artists in the Age of Revolutions,”Thinking Women: Art and Representation in the Eighteenth Century. A Symposium in Honor of Mary D. Sheriff, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, October 2017.

“‘[T]he study and genius of an artist’: Mary Linwood and the Artistic Self-Fashioning of the British Needle-Painter,” Embroidery: The Language of Art. A Winterthur Needlework Conference, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, October 2016.

“Expanding Material Conventions: How Women Artists Navigated the Revolutionary Era,” Getty Research Institute Scholar Talk, April 2016.

“Did Women Have a Print Revolution?” Guest Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art M.A. course, Print Culture and the Early Modern Arts, January 2015.