Public Lectures
African American Voices: 100 Years
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2023-24
"Harlem Renaissance: Reclaiming Cultural Identity," October 8, 2023
"Telling Our Stories: Jacob Lawrence and the Great Migration," November 12, 2023
"Challenging Stereotype: Reworking Aunt Jemima," February 11, 2024
"Flag Art: Old Glory and the Promise of Civil Rights," March 10, 2024
"Reframing Black Identity through Portraiture," April 14, 2024
A Different Impressionism
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2022-23
"John Sloan and Urban America," October 9, 2022
"William Merritt Chase and the New Woman," November 13, 2022
"Robert Henri and American Diversity," January 8, 2023
"Henry Ossawa Tanner and Black Life in the U.S.," February 12, 2023
"Mary Cassatt and Motherhood," March 12, 2023
Women Artists of the 20th Century
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2021-22
"Georgia O'Keeffe: More Than Flowers," October 21, 2021
"Frida Kahlo: An Artist's Life," November 21, 2021
"Yayoi Kusama: Experiencing Infinities," February 17, 2022
"Faith Ringgold: An American Story," April 10, 2022
Great Women Artists
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2019-20
"Sofonisba Anguisola: Claiming Greatness,” October 27, 2019
"Artemisia Gentileschi and the #MeToo Movement,” November 24, 2019
(canceled) "Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: Painter of the Queen,” March 15, 2020
Interpreting the Northern Renaissance
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2018-19
"Projecting Identity: Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait,” October 28, 2018
"Sickness and Healing in Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece,” November 18, 2018
"Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights: The Image of a False Paradise,” February 24, 2019
"Some Contemplation on Human Existence in Bruegel’s Months Series,” March 31, 2019
"Context and Meaning: Van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece through History,” April 28, 2019
French Modernism and the Female Figure
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2017-18
"Manet’s Olympia: Modernizing the Reclining Nude,” October 15, 2017
"Cassatt and Morisot: Reflecting and Rethinking Womanhood,” November 19, 2017
"To See and Be Seen: Manet’s Woman at the Bar,” December 11, 2017
"Flat and Fractured: Picasso’s Women of Avignon,” January 11, 2018
"Dialogues and Disputes: Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse & the Female Nude,” March 11, 2018
Baroque Art and Architecture
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2016-17
"The Sacred Spectacle of Saint Peter’s Basilica,” October 23, 2016
"The Theatrics of Bernini’s Sculptures in the Borghese Palace,” December 4, 2016
"Caravaggio’s Entombment: Perspective is Everything,” January 22, 2017
"Out of the Shadows in Rembrandt’s Night Watch,” February 26, 2017
"The Masterful Problem of Velazquez’s Las Meninas,” March 26, 2017
The Art of the Italian Renaissance
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, 2015-16
"The Power and Geometry of Leonardo’s Last Supper,” October 25, 2015
"The Meaning of Gestures in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling,” November 8, 2015
"What Does Wisdom Look Like? Raphael’s Brilliant Answer,” December 13, 2015
"Power and Politics in Donatello’s David,” February 21, 2016
"Masaccio’s Trinity: Breaking the Barriers of Flatness,” March 13, 2016
Some Other Invited Lectures (2019-2023)
"Art and Faith," Series, St. Johns Cathedral, Fall 2022
"Ghent Altarpiece: Meaning and Experience over Time,” Gonzaga Uni, April 2022
"Unsettled States: Art in and Against Crisis," Panel, VALS, Feb 2020
"Narrative Justification: Sexual Aggression in the History of Art," Artist Trust, Sept 2019
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