The 32nd Annual Parsons / Cooper Hewitt Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote & Graduate Student Symposium

11:00am – 4:30pm | Graduate Student Symposium

SARAH EGAN
M.A. Candidate, Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture
Bard Graduate Center
The “Bird-Fancyers Recreation”: Constructing Bird Knowledge and Meaning in an Eighteenth-Century British Handkerchief

KATERINA LANFRANCO
M.A. Candidate, Philosophy
New School For Social Research, The New School
Animal Motifs in Classical Greek Art: Reading Artifacts through Aristophanes and Plato

LIBERTY LEONARD-SHAW
M.A. Candidate, History of Design and Curatorial Studies
Parsons School of Design, The New School
“A green pasture”: Whalebone extraction and abundance in the American Age of Sail

MITCHELL HERRMANN
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art and Film & Media Studies
Yale University
A New Natural History: Precious Okoyomon’s Kudzu Art

ANNA FLINCHBAUGH
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History
University of Southern California
Mesopotamian Madder and Massachusetts Material: Vegetable Dyes at the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework

ERIC MAZARIEGOS
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History and Archaeology
Columbia University
Waves and the Roiling Ebb and Flow of Tairona Metalwork: Envisioning the Oceanic Turn in Ancient American Art

HADLEY NEWTON
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History
CUNY Graduate Center
Framing the World Outside: The Ecological Optics of James Turrell’s Mendota Stoppages (1969-1974)

5:00pm | The Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote Address

PETYA ANDREEVA
Assistant Professor of Asian Art, Vassar College
The Nonhuman Turn in Asian Art History and Historiography: New Perspectives from the Silk Roads

Reception to follow

Pictured: Woolen skirt with zoomorphic designs, Shanpula, Xinjiang, 1st-3rd c.