Portraying Gender, Portraying Race

Alexis Boylan, guest curator of "The Business of Bodies: Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941)" will discuss the artist’s work in relation to issues of race and gender. How is gender and race portrayed in Rand's work and by other portrait artists of her day?

4:30 Reception

5 pm Talk

Free

Alexis L. Boylan is Associate Director of the Humanities Institute and has a joint appointment with Art and Art History and the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) and editor of Thomas Kinkade, The Artist in the Mall (Duke University Press, 2011). Boylan has articles published in American Art, Journal of Curatorial Studies, MELUS, Rethinking Marxism, Prospects, and Woman’s Art Journal as well as contributing essays to numerous museum exhibition catalogues. She is currently working on a book about Ellen Emmet Rand that will be out soon.

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