Join the Sordoni Art Gallery on Thurs. March 20 at 5 pm for a special Art in Context lecture: \u201cCatlin Revisited: Interpreting the Artist and His Legacy from Indigenous America\u201d by Julia Grummitt, PhD.<\/p>\n
Artist George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1796 and dedicated much of his career to depicting Native American life and culture, becoming the best-known \u201cIndian painter\u201d of the nineteenth-century United States. Catlin\u2019s paintings aimed to preserve the traditions of Indigenous peoples facing displacement but also perpetuated racial stereotypes and reflected the colonial attitudes of his era. This presentation will examine Catlin\u2019s complex legacy, tracing evolving scholarly interpretations of his work and highlighting how contemporary Indigenous artists engage with Catlin\u2019s imagery to reframe persistent historical narratives and challenge ongoing legacies of colonization. These perspectives offer new insights into Catlin\u2019s role in shaping representation and identity in Indigenous art.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Join the Sordoni Art Gallery on Thurs. March 20 at 5 pm for a special Art in Context lecture: \u201cCatlin Revisited: Interpreting the Artist and His Legacy from Indigenous America\u201d by Julia Grummitt, PhD. Artist George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1796 and dedicated much of his career to depicting Native American life and… Read More »Art in Context Lecture Series: \u201cCatlin Revisited: Interpreting the Artist and His Legacy from Indigenous America\u201d by Julia Grummitt, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22845,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22819\/revisions\/22845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}