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November 14th, 2024

“Picturing Botanical Imperialism in the Americas”

Picturing Botanical Imperialism in the Americas

Maggie Cao
Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina

Lecture and Q&A sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History

Summary: The circulation of plants has long been tied to considerations of climate. Today climate change endangers many native species while exacerbating the negative impact of invasives. This talk explores artists’ engagements with plants in the context of imperialism past and present. The most famous landscape painter of the nineteenth-century US, Frederic Edwin Church, was a master of painting the flora of the American tropics. This talk will explore his paintings of Jamaica and the ways they engaged with botanical understandings of colonialism and emancipation. The legacy of Church’s nineteenth-century botanical imagery will be examined through contemporary artist Maria Thereza Alves’s ongoing Seeds of Changeproject, in which unearthed seeds from historic ballast sites are used to grow gardens. These gardens generated from waste—the dumped rocks, earth, and sand that once balanced merchant vessels—invert the history of colonialism told by the hothouse displays and herbarium collections of the past.

Location

F.W. Olin Building, Room 110

Date & Time

November 14 - 4:30pm - 5:45pm

November 15th, 2024

Musicale

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts’ Music Department is proud to present musicale.

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 15 - 3:00pm

November 16th, 2024

Wind Ensemble/Orchestra Concert

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 16 - 7:30pm

November 17th, 2024

Student Recital Eric Salinas, voice/composition

Students pursuing degrees in Music perform Senior and Junior recitals.

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 17 - 1:00pm

Student Recital Makenna Palacio , voice

Students pursuing degrees in Music perform Senior and Junior recitals.

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 17 - 2:30pm

Student Recital Emma Duncan, voice

Students pursuing degrees in Music perform Senior and Junior recitals.

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 17 - 4:00pm

Student Recital Luke Marx, percussion

Students pursuing degrees in Music perform Senior and Junior recitals.

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 17 - 7:00pm

November 19th, 2024

Southwestern University Jazz Band

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts is proud to present a spring concert with the Southwestern University Jazz Band under the direction of Christopher Washington.

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 19 - 7:30pm

November 22nd, 2024

Luna

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 22 - 7:30pm

November 23rd, 2024

Luna

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 23 - 2:00pm

Luna

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 23 - 7:30pm

November 24th, 2024

Luna

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 24 - 2:00pm

Southwestern University Choirs

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts is proud to present a concert with the Southwestern University Choirs.

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

November 24 - 7:30pm

December 6th, 2024