Save the Dates | In-Person SAAM Fellows’ Lectures
Wednesday, May 17, 1–5 p.m. ET 
Thursday, May 18, 1–5 p.m. ET 
Friday, May 19, 1–5 p.m. ET 

Location: McEvoy Auditorium  
Free | No registration required 

Join us for the first in-person fellows’ lecture series in four years! Seventeen fellows from the class of 2022–2023 will present new scholarship on a range of topics and time periods, media and messages. This multi-afternoon program will highlight a new generation of scholars who are pushing the boundaries of U.S. art history. 

Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture with Vivien Green Fryd
In person
Tuesday, March 14, 5 p.m. ET

Location: McEvoy Auditorium
Free | Registration opening soon

Join art historian Vivien Green Fryd for the Eldredge Prize lecture, “The Art of the Un-Speakable and the ‘Me Too’ Movement.” Fryd is a professor emerita in the history of art and architecture department at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815–1865, and Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe, and is currently writing Henry Ries’s Photographs of Berlin Iconic Buildings and Monuments, 1937–2004. In addition, Fryd has published essays in Panorama, Art Bulletin, American Art Journal, American Art, and Winterthur Portfolio.

She was the 2022 recipient of SAAM’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art for her book, Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970, which provides analysis on American artists who challenge the taboos surrounding sexual violence to construct an anti-rape, anti-incest counternarrative.

Content warning: SAAM seeks to provide a safe space for all attendees; this lecture will amplify the voices of survivors of sexual violence

Call for Applications: Toward Equity in Publishing

Toward Equity in Publishing is a professional development program provided by the peer-reviewed journal American Art, which is co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and University of Chicago Press. The program works toward ameliorating the inequitable conditions that precede and impede publication by providing developmental editing and workshops to demystify academic publishing. Eligibility is limited to untenured faculty, junior museum staff, independent scholars, and unpublished graduate students.  

With the continued generosity of the Dedalus Foundation, who has just extended their support for an additional two years, all participants will now receive a $1,000 stipend to offset participation costs such as family care, missed wages, or research expenses. 

For more information and application instructions, please visit americanart.si.edu/research/toward-equity-publishing.