Session 1
Saturday, September 30
11–11:50 a.m.
Session 1a: Archetypes: Amazons, Caryatids, and Snakes
- Moderator: Denva E. Gallant, Rice University
- Cortney Berg, The City University of New York
The Morgan Manuscript M.461 Amazons: Dangerous Women in Courtly Guises - Tori Burke, Emory University
A Generation of Vipers: The Physiologus, the Woman-Serpent, and the Viper's Lesson - Ella Gonzalez, Johns Hopkins University
Bearing Weight: Caryatid Mirrors and Women’s Labor in Ancient Greek Art
Session 1b: Nursing and Nationhood
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Moderator: Meredith Gamer, Columbia University
- Jessica M. Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Finis Galliæ: The Peril and the Promise of Mother’s Milk in Henri-Jules-Jean Geoffroy’s La Goutte de Lait de Belleville - Shana Klein, Kent State University
Spoiled Milk: The Anxieties of Motherhood in Victorian Breastfeeding Imagery -
Gabrielle Patrone, Rhode Island College
“Nursing the Republic: A Study of Marie Benoist’s Portrait of Madeline” - Jutta Sperling, Hampshire College
“Female Imperial Patronage and Lactation Imagery in Eighteenth-Century Illuminated Ethiopian Manuscripts of the Story of Mary [Nägärä Maryam]
Session 1c: The Power of Community
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Moderator: Orin Zahra, National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Janine DeFeo, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Feminist Networking: The 1980 WCA Conference Debate and Suzanne Lacy’s River Meeting - Margo Hobbs, Muhlenberg College
Lesbian Feminist Photography at the Rootworks Ovulars: Visibility, Pleasure, and Empowerment - Danielle Van Wagner, University of Toronto
Papers of Art and Fantasy: The Collaborative Networks of Parisian Female Decorative Artists - Yizhou Wang, Hong Kong Baptist University
The Politics of Female Alliance through an Orchid Album in Late Imperial China
Session 1d: The Politics of Design
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Moderator: Christina Riley, American University
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Megan Brandow-Faller, City Univeristy of New York, Kingsborough
Designs on Creativity: Emmy Zweybrück and the Commodification of Child Creativity -
Miriam Kienle, University of Kentucky
Feminist Conceptualisms and the Politics of Self-Quantification -
Elizabeth Koehn, Bard Graduate Center
Invisible Woman: Cora Scovil’s Lucite Creations and the Case for Historical Recovery -
Zsofia Valyi-Nagy, Getty Research Institute
Debunking Genius, Programming Intuition: The Accidental Feminism of Vera Molnar's Computer Graphics
Session 2
Saturday, September 30
1–1:50 p.m.
Session 2a: Courtly Women
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Moderator: Sheila Ffolliott, George Mason University
- Brianna Cooney, American University
A Feast for the Senses, A Feast for the Intellect: The Maiolica Patronage of Eleonora Gonzaga - Chloé Gourgues, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Image, Matter, Power - Class and gender representation through the example of coats of arm's bearers in women's seals during the 14th century in France and Flanders
Session 2b: The Body Politic
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Moderator: Tess Korobkhin, University of Maryland
- Brittany Bailey, Rutgers University
A Menagerie of Masculinities: Constructing a Typology of the Heroic Male Body in the Paintings and Drawings of Rosa Bonheur - Marquita Burke-De Jesus, University of Texas, Dallas
Dancing towards Liberation: Performance, Race & Somatic Reclamation - Vanessa Troiano, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Your Gaze Hits her Walking Figure: Susan Weil’s Activation of the Female Nude in Postwar America
Session 2c: Abstraction as Feminist Strategy
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Moderator: Bibi Obler, George Washington University
- Isabel Bird, Harvard University
Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s Rules of Perspective - Elissa Watters, University of Southern California
Imaginary Play: Louisa Chase’s Floor Paintings - Ola Wlusek, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
She didn’t throw away her shot: Gender, Agency, and Resistance in Work by Women Artists from The Ringling’s Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art
Session 2d: Making Their Way I
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Moderator: Grace Yasumura, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Eliza Butler, Columbia University
Georgia O’Keeffe, Duncan Phillips, and the Promotion of Women Artists in US Art Museums in the 1920s - Caroline Culp, Vassar College
The Independent Eye of Caroline Clowes: Economies of Animal Painting in the Hudson Valley, 1853-1894 - Eve Grinstead, École normale supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres
Beyond Women Supporting Women: Sheikhas, Expat Women, and the Rise of the Art Scene in the United Arab Emirates
Session 3
Saturday, September 30
2–2:50 p.m.
Session 3a: Ambiguous Identities
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Moderator: Aneta Georgievska-Shine, University of Maryland
- Natacha Aprile, Sorbonne University and EHESS
Transgressing the norms and performing masculinity: Queen Christina blurring gender roles in her portraits - Ilaria Arcangeli, University of Chieti-Pescara
Roman women painters from the rear between the 16th and 17th centuries - Margaret M. Barnes, University of Washington
“Coheir in the Kingdom and Spouse”: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Madonna and Child as the Heavenly Bride and Bridegroom
Session 3b: Historical Recovery in Museums
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Moderator: Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, American University
- Marietta Cambareri, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Finding “Hidden Gold” in Museum Collections: Strong Women in Renaissance Italy at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Marissa Hershon, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Curatorial Strategies for Presenting Women Artists in Studio Glass - Carolyn Russo, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
Challenging A Cultural Narrative: Contemporary Women Artists Embrace Feminism in the Realm of Flight - Marisa C. Sánchez, Lycoming College
Agency, Authorship and the Archive: The Case of Miss A
Session 3c: Taking Space: Women, Art, and Architecture
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Moderator: Tessa Paneth-Pollack, FAAC (Feminist Art-Architecture Collaborative)
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Bridget Bartal, Cranbrook Art Museum (Mis)fitting Taliesin: The Women of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship
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Kelsey Gustin, Fine Arts Collection, US General Services Administration
The Fiber Art Boom of the 1970s: Federal Buildings, Brutalism, and the Art in Architecture Program -
Marie-Christine Schoel, Westphalian Wilhelm-University Münster
Judy Chicago’s Minimal Art and the Development of Alternative Spaces in the Feminist Art Movement -
Amy Von Lintel, West Texas A&M University
Women Abstract Expressionists and Religious Design between 1960 and 1980
Session 3d: Art as Activism/Activism as Art I
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Moderator: Andrew Wasserman, American University
- Mona Bozorgi, Florida State University
Shared Photographs as Agentic Data: Collaboration with Women Protesters in Iran - Joanna Gardner-Huggett, DePaul University
Contesting Rape and Demanding Safety: Ilona Granet’s 1977 Performance
Elizabeth Hawley, University of South Alabama
Don’t Bump Her: Natani Notah and the Indigenous Feminist Art of Resurgence
Session 4
Sunday, October 1
12–12:50 p.m.
Session 4: Rethinking Art-Historical Time
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Moderator: Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- Julia Alting, University of Groningen
Towards a Nonlinear Feminist Art History: The Temporality of Canonization - Jennifer Griffiths, Umbra Institute in Perugia
Arte(misian) Afterlives: Kathleen Gilje, Anna Ostoya, Lili Bernard, and Betty Tompkins - Rachel Warriner, Courtauld Institute of Art
Considering Activist Histories
Session 5
Sunday, October 1
12–12:50 p.m.
Session 5a: Group Exhibitions of Women-Identified Artists: Past and Present
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Moderator: Anne Reeve, Hirshhorn Museum
- Dorothée Dupuis, National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Exhibition elles@centrepompidou: the stakes of a "neither feminine nor feminist" approach at the turn of the 2010s - Sarah K. Happersberger, International Centre for the Study of Culture
Exchange as Feminist Strategy: The Exchange Show and other dialogue-based Women’s Art Exhibitions in Conversation - Agata Jakubowska, Warsaw University
Imagined and Real Women's Communities in International All-women Exhibitions - Allison Westerfield, University of Florida
The Legacy of “Women Artists”
Session 5b: Nature and Culture
- Moderator: Eleanor Harvey, Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Anna Dempsey, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Angel De Cora: The Indians’ Book and the Indigenous “Graphic Landscape” - Rachael Reynolds,
Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University
The Emancipated Female Figure and Reclaimed Feminine Power: Photographs by Anne Brigman, 1911-1913 - Amanda Malmstrom, Thomas Cole National Historical Site; Kate Menconeri, Thomas Cole National Historical Site; Nancy Siegel, Towson University
Women Reframe American Landscape: A Curatorial Perspective - Astrid Tvetenstrand, Preservation Society of Newport County
Women in Landscape: Laura Woodward, Henry Flagler, and Property Development
Session 5c: Objects & Agency
- Moderator: Elyse Speaks, University of Notre Dame
- Audrey Florey, University of Missouri, Columbia
Elsa Ulbricht’s Socially and Artistically Engaged Practices
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Caitlin Glosser, Kenyon College
A Cross-Media Collaboration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and The First Simultaneous Book -
Olivia E. Murphy, University of Oklahoma
From Seer Stones to Seer Bonnets: Angela Ellsworth's Recovering, Reimagining, and Recounting of Mormon Polygamy
Session 6
Sunday, October 1
2–2:50 p.m.
Session 6a: Nineteenth-Century France: New Perspectives
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Moderator: Juliet Bellow, American University
- Dani Ezor, Kenyon College
Making Up White Femininity: Race, Gender, and Materiality at the Toilette Table in the Eighteenth-Century French Empire - Melissa Hyde, University of Florida; Paris Spies-Gans, Independent Scholar
Women Artists and the Nude in the Long Eighteenth-Century: A Matter to Redress - Emilie Martin-Neute, Institut Catholique de Paris
Women artists and French Université Exhibitions : Deconstructing historiographical invisibilisation - Carina Rech, Nationalmuseum Stockholm
The Artist as Flâneuse: Hanna Hirsch-Pauli’s Letters from Paris, 1885-87
Session 6b: Domestic Labors
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Moderator: Sarah Gordon, National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Lexington Davis, University of St Andrews
The Labor of Refusal: Laundry and Resistance in Betye Saar and Simone Leigh’s Sculptural Work - Rebecca DeRoo, Rochester Institute of Technology
Illuminating Public and Domestic Labor: Mary Kelly’s 1970s Feminist Art Activism - Michelle Donnelly, Yale University
Working "Around the Clock": Ruth Asawa's Impressions of Domesticity - Maddy Henkin, Eric Firestone Gallery
Give Peas a Chance: Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit and the Recipe as Radical Form
Session 6c: Mentorship: Leading by Example
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Moderator: Danielle Mysliwiec, American University
- Liz Kim, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Hung Liu's Teaching Practice and Postmodernism
Emilie Oléron Evans, Queen Mary, University of London
Portrait(s) of the feminist art historian as model, muse and mother: Linda NochlinAmy Rahn, University of Maine, Augusta
The Fresh Air School: Tracing Joan Mitchell’s Mentorship as Influence
Session 7
Sunday, October 1
3–3:50/4:50 p.m.
Session 7a: New Horizons: Feminist Art History in South America Now (3–4:50 pm)
Organized by Ayelen Pagnanelli and Lucía Laumann, Centro de Investigaciones en Arte y Patrimonio, Universidad Nacional de San Martin-CONICET
- Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo
Presenças Invisíveis: artistas latino americanas na coleção do CNAP em tempos de exílio -
Gloria Cortés, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Chile
Una Respuesta Entrecruzada: Los estudios feministas en las artes visuales y su panorama actual -
Georgina Gluzman, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Feminist Readings of the Past in Recent Argentine Art
Session 7b: Art as Activism/Activism as Art II (3–3:50 pm)
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Moderator: Frances Jacobus-Parker, University of Notre Dame
- Claire Raymond, University of Maine
Shelley Niro's Mohawk Valley - Kimberly Smith, Southwestern University
Beyond Japonisme: Charlotte Berend-Corinth's Wartime Watercolors - Doris Sung, University of Alabama
Hong Kong Artists’ Feminist Interventions in Civil Disobedience Movements - Barbara Tyner, Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm
Expanding the Timeline of Resistance: The Surprise of Pre-Feminist Feminist Messaging in Mid-Twentieth Century Mexico
Session 7c: Making Their Way II (3–3:50 pm)
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Moderator: Nancy Micklewright, Smithsonian Institution
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Alison McQueen, McMaster University
Sculptor Noémie Constant in Second Empire Paris: “A Woman who sought to live Honorably from her Work” -
Nadine Nour el Din, Independent Researcher
Artist and Muse: Ehsan Mokhtar and Tahia HalimMark N. Taylor, Berry College; Melinda J. Matthews, Georgia State University
Jewel Woodard Simon (1911–1996): A Black Woman Artist at the Intersection of Race and Gender