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Join us for a lecture by Dr. Keri Watson titled "Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highway Men" from the Florida Humanities Council on August 22nd at 6:00pm. The Florida landscape has provided aesthetic inspiration to artists for centuries. Titian Ramsay Peale and John James Audubon came in search of native flora and fauna, followed by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Winslow Homer, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, who were lured by its natural beauty and warm climate. This presentation offers a succinct and engaging history of Florida’s landscape painters.
About Dr. Keri Watson:
Keri Watson is Assistant Director of the School of Visual Arts and Design, Associate Professor of Art History, affiliated faculty in the Florida Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Texts and Technology Ph.D. programs, and Director of the Florida Prison Education Project. She serves as a Board Member for the Association of Historians of American Art, Co-Executive Editor and Finance and Grants Manager for Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, and is the author of A New Deal for Florida: Parks and Post Offices in the Sunshine State (forthcoming), and co-author (with Julia Listengarten) of Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations In Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Practices (2023), and co-author (with Keidra Daniels Navaroli) of This is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States (2023). She is the co-editor (with Timothy Hiles) of the Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022). Dr. Watson’s research has been recognized and supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists. She teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century art, American art, the art of Disney and self-taught artists, and African American Art.
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Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, United States
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