Guest Lecture Series – Professor Jessica Horton – April 29th, 2021
The Department of History of Art & Architecture invites you to the last installment of the 2020-2021 HAA Guest Lecture Series.
Jessica Horton
Associate Professor of Native American, Modern, and Contemporary Art, University of Delaware
Title:”Weavers, Earth Mothers, and Diplomats”
Thursday, April 29th at 6pm – Via Zoom
Free and open to the public with online registration.
All attendees are required to register via this online form.
Sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities
Jessica Horton’s current book project, Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous American Art and Reciprocity, 1953–1973, examines the work of artists who revitalized Native cultures of diplomacy in the unlikely shape of Cold War tours. Drawing on ecofeminism and Indigenous knowledge, this talk will frame an exchange between Diné and Mapuche weavers in 1968 as a creative instance of “earth diplomacy.”
