Symposia

Symposia

Transnational Wests (Eleventh Biennial Symposium, April 21, 2023)

·       Jeremiah Ariaz, professor of photography, Louisiana State University

·       Jennifer R. Henneman, Ph.D., director, Petrie Institute of Western Art / Curator of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum

·       Emily L. Voelker, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

·       Danika Medak-Saltzman (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), Ph.D., assistant professor, Women and Gender Studies, faculty affiliate Native American and Indigenous Studies, Syracuse University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tMJdkNJsE

Art Deco and the American West (Tenth Biennial Symposium, October 12, 2018)

·       Carla Breeze, Photographer and Author of American Art Deco: Architecture and Regionalism, L.A. Deco and Pueblo Deco, New Mexico and New York City

·       David Bush, Award-Winning Writer and Executive Director, Preservation Houston, Houston, TX

·       John Faubion, Director, Lawrence Tenney Stevens Trust, Superior, AZ

·       Jim Parsons, Award-Winning Writer and Programs Director, Preservation Houston, Houston, TX

·       Mark Andrew White, Ph.D., Wylodean and Bill Saxon Director, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 

New Trails: The Frederic Remington Catalogue Raisonné (Ninth Biennial Symposium, April 15, 2016)

● Sarah E. Boehme, Ph.D., Curator, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX
● Doyle Buhler, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, Forest Grove, OR
● Laura F. Fry, Curator of Art, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
● Peter H. Hassrick, Ph.D., Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY
● Melissa Webster Speidel, Director, Albert Bierstadt Catalogue Raisonné Project, Foster City, CA
● Ron Tyler, Ph.D., Former Director, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX

Depression-Era Regionalism in Western American Art, Photography, and Film (Eighth Biennial Symposium, March 28, 2014)

·       Francine Carraro, Ph.D., Museum Director, Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX   

·       Michael Duchemin, Ph.D., Executive Director, C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT

·       James R. Swensen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History and the History of Photography, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

·       Jason Weems, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History of Art Department, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside

 

Decorative Arts and the American West (Seventh Biennial Symposium, April 20, 2012)

·       Anita J. Ellis, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

·       James H. Nottage, Vice President, Chief Curatorial Officer and Gund Curator of Western Art, History and Culture, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

·       Eugene W. “Wally” Reber, Former Associate Director, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY, and an artist and furniture maker

·       Cheryl Robertson, Independent Scholar and Museum Professional, Cambridge, MA

 

Larger Than Life: Sculpture and the American West (Sixth Biennial Symposium, April 10, 2010)

·       Alison Fields, Ph.D., Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West and Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History, Norman OK

·       Edward J. Fraughton, Award-Winning Sculptor, South Jordan, UT

·       Adam Duncan Harris, Ph.D., Curator of Art, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY

·       Robin R. Salmon, Vice President for Collections and Curator of Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, SC

·       Paul Moore, Sculptor-in-Residence, University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History, Norman, OK

 

Window to the Southwest: The Eugene B. Adkins Collection (Fifth Biennial Symposium, March 7, 2008)

·       Christina E. Burke, Curator of Native American and Non-Western Art, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

·       Amy Scott, Ph.D., Curator of Visual Arts, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA

·       Marie Watkins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Furman University Department of Art, Greenville, SC

·       Mary Jo Watson, Ph.D., Director, University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History; Curator of Native American Art, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK

 

C.M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné Symposium, October 20, 2007, C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT

 

Fresh Tracks: New Perspectives on the Art of Charles M. Russell (Fourth Biennial Symposium, October 28-29, 2005)

·       Raphael Cristy, Award-winning, Historian/Actor, Albuquerque, NM [Keynote]

·       Brian Dippie, Ph.D., Historian and Author, University of Victoria, B.C.

·       Peter Hassrick, Ph.D., Director, Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

·       Anne Morand, Chief Executive Officer, C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT

·       Ginger K. Renner, Author and Russell Historian, Paradise Valley, AZ

 

Drawn to the Light: The Artists of Taos (Third Biennial Symposium, October 2-3, 2003)

·       Elizabeth Cunningham, Art Historian, Taos, NM

·       Virginia Couse Leavitt, Art Historian, Tucson, AZ, and Taos, N

·       Michael Duty, Executive Director, National Center for American Western Art, Kerrville, TX

·       Michael R. Grauer, Curator of Art, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, T

·       Ellen Landis, Curator of Art, Museum of Albuquerque, NM

·       Dean A. Porter, Ph.D., Director Emeritus, Snite Art Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (Keynote)

·       Sharyn Udall, Ph.D., Art Historian, College of Santa Fe, NM

 

Remington & Russell: Each in His Span (Second Biennial Symposium, October 26, 2001), held in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art, October 6 – December 9, 2001

·       Nancy Anderson, Associate Curator of British and American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

·       Patricia Burnham, Ph.D., Art Historian, University of Texas, Austin, TX

·       Brian Dippie, Ph.D., Historian, University of Victoria, B.C.

·       Dan Flores, Ph.D., Historian, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

·       Peter Hassrick, Ph.D., Founding Director Emeritus, Russell Center, Norman, OK

·       Emily Neff, Ph.D., Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

·       Alexander Nemerov, Ph.D., Art Historian, Yale University, New Haven, CT

·       Ginger Renner, Scholar, Paradise Valley, AZ

·       Stephen Tatum, Ph.D., Professor of American Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Don’t Fence Me In!, Inaugural Symposium, September 10, 1999

·       Arthur D. Amiotte, Artist, Writer, and Consultant on Indian Cultures of the Northern Plains; Adjunct Professor, Native Studies and Art, Brandon University, Manitoba, B.C.

·       Nancy K. Anderson, Associate Curator of British and American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

·       Janet C. Berlo, Ph.D., Susan B. Anthony Chair of Gender Studies and Professor of Art History, University of Rochester, Rochester, N

·       Erika Doss, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, Department of Fine Arts and Director of American Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

·       Charles C. Eldredge, Ph.D., Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art, The University of Kansas, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, Lawrence, KS

·       William H. Goetzmann, Ph.D., Jack S. Blanton Sr. Professor in History and American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX

·       Lloyd Kiva New, Director Emeritus, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM

·       Howard R. Lamar, Ph.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT

·       Janine Pease-Pretty on Top, Ph.D., President, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, MT*

·       B. Byron Price, Executive Director, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY; former Director, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK

·       W. Jackson Rushing III, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO

·       Martha A. Sandweiss, Ph.D., Professor of American Studies and History, Amherst College; former Director, Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, MA

·       Rick Stewart, Ph.D., Director, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; President, Museums West, Fort Worth, TX

·       Martin Sullivan, Ph.D., Director, Historic St. Mary’s City, MD; former Director, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

 

*Dr. Janine Pease-Pretty on Top was unable to attend and Mary Jo Watson, Ph.D., Director, University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History; Curator of Native American Art, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art] presented in her place.