Bound and Boarded: Representations of Native Motherhood in U.S. Art and Culture
Event Details
Bound and Boarded: Representations of Native Motherhood in U.S. Art and Culture A Lecture with Dr. Shana Reisig Monday, April 8, 2024 7:00 PM ET Virtual Event |
Event Details
Bound and Boarded: Representations of Native Motherhood in U.S. Art and Culture
A Lecture with Dr. Shana Reisig
Monday, April 8, 2024
7:00 PM ET
Virtual Event | Free
Few scholars have investigated representations of Native American motherhood in U.S. art, but the subject was everywhere. Representations of Native mothers were shown repeatedly from the 18th through 20th centuries and by some of the most famous U.S. painters of Native American subject matter. While the image varies—a woman seated and holding a child on her lap or standing and bending over from the weight of a cradleboard—most U.S. artists did not stray from the trope that performed many meanings for non-Native artists and viewers. This presentation will consider how Native motherhood was highly visible and politically-charged in art by non-Native artists who used representations of motherhood to shape conversations about Native land dispossession.
Sponsored by The Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Program in Women’s History
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Time
April 8, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-05:00)
