Decorating Schools & Shaping the City: Women’s Clubs and School Art Collecting, 1900-1940
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, 5:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Livestream presentation by Sylvia Rhor Samaniego, director and curator, University Art Gallery (UAG), University of Pittsburgh. Free and open to the public.
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Offered in conjunction with the exhibition To the Stars Through Art: A History of Art Collecting in Kansas Public Schools, 1900-1950, currently on view at the Beach Museum of Art.
Sylvia Rhor Samaniego additionally serves as a senior lecturer in the department of history of art and architecture. Before joining the UAG, Rhor Samaniego was a professor of art history at Carlow University. At Carlow, she served as founding director of the university’s first academic art gallery. Rhor Samaniego earned a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Pittsburgh and bachelor’s degree in studio art and art history from New York University, where she was a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Minority Scholar. Her research interests include 20th-century US mural painting, political cartoons and comics, and the intersection of modern art and politics.
This virtual event is part of the Beach Museum of Art’s “Art in Motion” annual program series.
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