Join the Shifting Shorelines curators Annette Blaugrund, Betti-Sue Hertz, Elizabeth Hutchinson, and Dorothy Peteet for a discussion about the development of the exhibition with interlocutor James Nisbet. Together they will consider how the presentation of historic and contemporary art, visual culture, and environmental science challenges the “scenic Hudson” mythologies promoted in the 19th century and offers new perspectives on the legacy, life, and livelihoods along the river—one informed by the voices and experiences of a broad range of creators.
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Annette Blaugrund, Former Director National Academy Museum, and Consulting Curator Thomas Cole National Historic Site. She is the author of seventeen books about American art and a contributor to numerous books and journals over the past three decades. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy and being awarded a chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
Betti-Sue Hertz, Director and Chief Curator of the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. Trained as an artist and art historian, her curatorial and scholarly work focuses on the intersection of critical visual culture, transnational exchange, and socially relevant issues. In addition to Shifting Shorelines, her most recent exhibitions for the Wallach include Angela Su: Melencolia and The Protest and The Recuperation.
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Associate Professor of American Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University. Her research centers on the role played by visual and material culture in the interactions between the diverse cultural groups of the American west, using the tools of close visual analysis, feminist and postcolonial theory, and cultural history to interpret the contributions of art objects to current and historical cultural debates. Professor Hutchinson's scholarship has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ACLS, the Smithsonian Institution, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate.
James Nisbet, Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art History and Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and Director of the Environmental Humanities Research Center. He has published widely on the history and theory of ecocritical visual art and aesthetics from late modernism to the present. Nisbet’s research has been supported by institutions including Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities, Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center, Dumbarton Oaks, and Getty Research Institute. His book projects include Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s (MIT Press, 2014) and Second Site (Princeton University Press, 2021), and as editor with Lyle Massey, The Invention of the American Desert: Art, Land, and the Politics of Environment (University of California Press, 2021).
Dorothy Peteet, NASA/GISS and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Biology and Paleo Environment. She directs the Paleoecology Division of the New Core Lab at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia and in collaboration with GISS climate modelers and LDEO geochemists is studying the Late Pleistocene and Holocene archives of lakes and wetlands (peatlands, salt marshes, tidal freshwater marshes, bogs, fens). Documenting past vegetational change using pollen and spores, plant and animal macrofossils, loss-on-ignition, carbon, and charcoal in conjunction with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating, her research provides local and regional records of vegetational and climate history and carbon sequestration.
