About this Event
This event will be presented both in-person and virtually.
The Ransom Center’s Public Works: Art by Elizabeth Olds is one of several exhibitions around the country that take a fresh look at the work of women artists employed by the WPA. Join three curators in conversation as they discuss their exhibitions and the WPA artists they’ve featured. Learn more about why this artwork is so relevant today, and why some of these artists have until recently been under-recognized.
Curator of Art Tracy Bonfitto, organizer of Public Works: Art by Elizabeth Olds, will be joined by Virginia Anderson, Curator of American Art and Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Allison Rudnick, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Virginia Anderson’s exhibition runs through June 30 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The exhibition was co-curated with Robin Owen Joyce, BMA Getty Paper Project Fellow.
Allison Rudnick’s 2023 exhibition is accompanied by an exhibition catalog, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
About the Panelists
Allison Rudnick is Associate Curator in the department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her exhibitions include The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, on view at The Met through June 11, 2024, and Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s (2023), among others. She has published and presented widely on modern and contemporary printmaking practices and visual culture. She holds an MPhil from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is a PhD candidate.
Virginia Anderson is the Curator of American Art and Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She is the co-curator, with Robin Joyce, of Art/Work: Women Printmakers of the WPA (on view through June 30, 2024). In 2022, she reconceived and reinstalled the American Modernism galleries in the Dorothy McIlvain Scott American Wing at the BMA and is currently developing an exhibition on touch and tactility in 20th century American art (slated for Fall 2026). Virginia received a BA in Government from Harvard University and an MA and Ph.D. in Art History from Boston University. She is an adjunct professor in the Program in Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University.
As Curator of Art, Tracy Bonfitto is responsible for research, access, and interpretation of the Ransom Center’s art collection holdings. Bonfitto holds a Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA, and her recent exhibitions include Public Works: Art by Elizabeth Olds and Art in Words: Prints from the 20th Century to Today. Her curated exhibitions have been featured at the Ransom Center, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, WA.
Elizabeth Olds (American, 1896–1991), Miners (WPA proof), 1937. Lithograph. Gift of Emmett L. and Mary B. Hudspeth. Emmett L. Hudspeth Art Collection of Elizabeth Olds, 2003.8.068. Harry Ransom Center.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Harry Ransom Center, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, United States
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