A 2019 Williams College survey of the collections of 18 major US museums found that, of a selection from works by 9,000 named artists, just 1.2% of works were made by Black artists. A panel of museum curators and directors will consider how museums are now working to diversify their collections. This symposium in person or live via Zoom jointly organized by the Arts Council of Princeton and the Princeton University Art Museum and cosponsored by the Princeton University Humanities Council, is set to accompany Retrieving the Art of James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists, an exhibition on view from October 14 through December 3 at the Arts Council of Princeton, Paul Robeson Arts Center. Please join the speakers after the program for a reception and to view the exhibition at the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street. Participants: Introduction: James Steward, Director, Princeton University Art Museum Panelists: Maura Reilly, Director, Zimmerli Ar
Grab your binoculars and join us for an hour of virtual birding, as we turn the pages of John James Audubon’s gigantic, hand-painted Birds of America (1827-38).
Rarely does the public have the opportunity to see this amazing four-volume work and when they do, it is usually only one plate through a sealed case. As we have done for our students, we will page through multiple volumes so you can experience the colossal scale of Audubon’s birds, painted life-size and then transferred to copper plates for the printing and painting of the published ‘double-elephant’ volumes.
Introducing Audubon’s remarkable work will be Rachael Z. DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim 86 Professor in American Art, Professor of Art and Archaeology and American Studies, and the current Chair of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.