Click on the exhibition title below to see dates and scheduled events. The "Read more" link under some listing provides additional information.
Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art
New Media Gallery Programs
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Alice Ravenel Huger Smith,
American, 1876–1958
Mending A Break in a Rice Field,
from the series A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties, ca. 1935
Watercolor on paper,
17.40 x 21.93 inches
Gibbes Museum of Art.
Image © the Artist’s Estate |
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January 25 – April 20
Organized by Angela D. Mack, deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, this exhibition and its accompanying publication examine the aesthetic motives, historical context, political impact, and social uses of artworks that deal with the theme of the plantation.The guest curator for the exhibition in Charlottesville is Maurie D. McInnis, director of American Studies and associate professor, McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia. Christopher Oliver graduate student in the McIntire Department of Art serves as curatorial assistant.
The exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is made possible in Charlottesville with the generous support of the Ceres Foundation, the University of Virginia Art Museum Advisory Board, the Provost’s Arts Enhancement Funds, and the Carle H. and Martha S. Lindner Center for Art History, McIntire Department of Art.
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Lunchtime Gallery Talks
on the Exhibition
These informal gallery talks explore different
aspects of the exhibition.
January 25, 1 pm
Angela Mack, deputy director for curatorial affairs at
the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
February 13, 1 pm
Maurie McInnis, guest curator and associate
professor, McIntire Department of Art
March 12, 1 pm
Carmenita Higginbotham, assistant professor,
McIntire Department of Art
March 18, 1 pm
Andrea Douglas, curator of collections and exhibitions
April 9, 1 pm
Christopher Oliver, M.A. candidate, art history
April 16, 1 pm
Catherine Malone, Ph.D. candidate, art history
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Exhibition Symposium
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; March 13–15
March 13, 5 pm
Keynote address by Richard J. Powell,
John Spencer Bassatt Professor of Art and Art History, Duke University
Landscape/Escape: Subjugation and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Images of African Americans |
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For more information, download flyer > |
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March 14, 9:30 am - 12 noon
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David Miller, Associate Professor, Department of English, Allegheny College
'That dark struggling, darkly vegetating swamp of human souls’: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Southern Landscape
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Topsy at the Dressing Table: Visual Apocrypha and Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
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March 14, 2 - 5:30 pm
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Kymberly Pinder, Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mixing Myths: Multiracial Artists Talk Back to Slavery
Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Emancipation and the Plantation: Utopian and Dystopian Visions of the Sugar Economy in Jamaica, 1834–38
Walter Johnson, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Cotton’s Dominion: Body, Landscape, and Ecology in the Mississippi Valley |
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March 15, 9 am - 12:30 pm
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Rebecca Ginsburg, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The View from the Woods: Plantation Landscapes from the Perspective of Fugitives
Erskine Clarke, Professor of American Religious History, Columbia Theological Seminary
The Landscape of the Lowcountry in Black and White: Overlapping and Competing Views and Memories
Stephanie E. Yuhl, Associate Professor, History, College of the Holy Cross
Landscapes of Longing: The Plantation Aesthetic in Sight and Sound |
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Final Friday
Friday, February 29
5:30–7:30 pm
Parking is available in the A6 parking lot and in Newcomb Hall Parking Garage. |
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Resources
Family Guidebook (pdf) >
Educator's Guide (pdf) > |
Nightjohn
by Charles Burnett
January 17 – March 3, 1 and 3 pm
Read more >
March 4 – April 14
Stay tuned for our program announcement.
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