November 10, 2005
Art history alum Carr to give December 8 talk on Latin American portraiture
Case art history alumnae Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution, will return to her alma mater for talk in early December.
Carr will give the free, public lecture “Framing Latin American Portraiture” on Thursday December 8, 2005 at 1 pm in the Dampeer Room of the Kelvin Smith Library.
This talk is the Inaugural Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture in Art History.
Carr was one of four curators from three museum who organized the exhibition “Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits.” The exhibition, which features 115 paintings and sculptures from 76 lenders in 15 countries, and the accompanying catalogue is the first to focus exclusively on the traditions of portraiture in Latin America. Dr. Carr was joined in this endeavor by Drs. Miguel Bretos (National Portrait Gallery), Marion Oettinger (San Antonio Museum of Art) and Fatima Bercht (El Museo del Barrio). The exhibition is currently on view at the Smithsonian Institution's International Gallery until January 8, 2006.
For her December 8 talk, Dr. Carr will present an overview of the exhibition and talk about some of the challenges related to organizing this groundbreaking exhibition.
The Department of Art History and Art is pleased to welcome back to campus one of the most successful alumnae of the doctoral program in Art History and Museum Studies, in which the university partners with the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Art History and Art in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/arth/events.html.