Organized by Maurie McInnis, associate professor, McIntire Department of Art, and Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture.  

Session I

Reading the Clues on Canvas: Early American Portraits
Anne Verplanck, Curator of Prints and Paintings
and Interim Director of Museum Collections, Winterthur Museum

Painting Civility: The Portraiture of John Wollaston
Jennifer Van Horn, Ph.D. student, Art History

Vanderlyn's “Ariadne,” Transatlantic Political Intrigue, and the Specter of the Minotaur in the Wake of the Louisiana Purchase
Katherine Woltz, Ph.D. student, Art History

Session II

The Wonders of Reflection:
Early American Furniture, Portraits and Silver
Ann Smart Martin, Chipstone Professor of American Decorative Arts, Art History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recreated Domesticity:
The Virginia Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition
Lydia Mattice Brandt, graduate student, School of Architecture

Box lunches provided by prior reservation

2:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Spike Marks and Props: The Theatrics of ArchitecturalGentility         
Barbara Burlison Mooney, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa

Yeomanry as a Means of Acceptance: Jewish and African-American Rural Communities in Nineteenth Century America

Elizabeth Milnarik, graduate student, School of Architecture

Building a House of God:
Defining a Jewish Presence in Thomas Jefferson’s World
Daniel Kurt Ackermann, graduate student, School of Architecture

Session IV
Questions and Discussion