UPCOMING EVENTS

 
 

PAST EVENTS

 

  • THE ART HISTORY PROGRAM at AMERICAN UNIVERSITY is proud to announce that acclaimed art historian, curator, and producer Dr. Nikki A. Greene of Wellesley College will be a keynote speaker at the 8th Feminist Art History Conference at American University.

  • SYMPOSIUM: BEHOLD Celebrate the opening of María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold—an exhibition spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s boundary-breaking work—with two roundtable discussions and a new immersive performance by Campos-Pons. Participants include artists Carlos Martiel, Helina Metaferia, Pamela Sneed, and Carrie Mae Weems, along with scholars Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Cheryl Finley, Tatiana Flores, Nikki A. Greene, Carmen Hermo, Jamaal Sheats, and Adriana Zavala. 

  • NIKKI A. GREENE IN CONVERSATION WITH MULTIDISCIPLINARY, ARTIST-CURATOR TSEDAYE MAKONNEN

  • “MAKE WAY FOR INDUSTRIOUS LADIES”: THE PANDEMIC AND THE MULTIFORMAT PERFORMANCES OF WHEN WE GATHER, Burke Lecture Series. Department of Art History. University of Indiana

  • “THE (Im)PERMANENCE OF BLACK FEMME COLLABORATIONS, Visiting Lecturer, Fullbright College of Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas

  • RENEE ATER, “MEMORYSCAPES OF SLAVERY.” Lecture followed by a conversation with Nikki A. Greene, Wellesley College, Collins Cinema

  • THE 6TH ANNUAL MIND, BODY and SPIRIT BREAKFAST, A fundraiser for Link Community Charter School in Newark, New Jersey. Inaugural Alumni Honoree, Dr. Nikki Greene

  • “ON THE ART OF PERFORMING”, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and critic for The New Yorker, Hilton Als makes his debut as the Gardner’s incoming Visiting Curator for the Performing Arts in an intimate conversation with art historian Nikki A. Greene.
    Sunday, Oct 10, 2021

  • ALUMNI FELLOWS READING SERIES w/CHRISTA CLARKE: THE GILDED AGE REVISTED: YINKA SHONIBARE CBE at the NEWARK MUSEUM, In conversation with Nikki Greene, Wellesley College.

  • CONVERSATION WITH ART HISTORIAN NIKKI GREENE, Presented in conversation with Stonewall National Museum & Archives’ Executive Director Hunter O’Hanian, Nikki Greene will discuss the exhibition, Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, taking a closer look at the man who inspired so many of Sargent’s works. Watch here.

  • BLACKNESS AS PROCESS: LIQUID PRACTICES ACROSS GENERATIONS, 109th College Art Association Conference

  • DOCUMENTING PERFORMANCE ART: IDENTIFIED BY MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY PANEL, Performativity and the Social Body, Episode 5, with Cecilia Vicuña and Doris Sommer. Engine for Art, Justice and Democracy at Vanderbilt University, The Erasure of Thomas McKellar

  • RADCLIFFE BAILEY’S ‘THIRST TRAPS’: ON THE VISUAL AESTHETIC MUSICALITY OF BLACK ART, Department of Art History and Communication Studies. McGill University. Montreal, Canada.

  • THE ERASURE OF THOMAS MCKELLAR, Invited Lecturer. For the Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent exhibition. The Isabella Gardner Museum, Video available here.

  • THE PERFORMANCE ART SYLLABUS. PERFORMING MISSING NARRATIVES: REPRESENTATIVES, DIVERSITY AND MUSEUMS. Colloquium convened by Cheryl Finley and Dorothy Moss.. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.

  • NEWHOUSE CENTER FACULTY SERIES: “SUGAR MAKES ME CRY”: MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS and the PERFORMANCE of BITTERSWEET HISTORIES

  • EWHOUSE CENTER FACULTY SERIES: “SUGAR MAKES ME CRY”: MARIA MAGDALENA CAMPOS-PONS and the PERFORMANCE of BITTERSWEET HISTORIES

  • “SCHOLAR TO SCHOLAR: Kimberly Juanita Brown and Nikki A. Greene in Conversation.” On the occasion of the “Nine Moments For Now” Exhibition curated by Dell M. Hamilton. The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery. Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma