Please join Chesterwood's NEH Research Specialist for an illustrated presentation and discussion of 
“Casting Identities:
Race, American Sculpture and
Daniel Chester French"
Thursday, June 1 at 5:30 p.m.
This event is in-person, free and open to the public.
A recording will be available here at a later date.

Emily C. Burns, Ph. D. will share the outcomes of this past year’s research initiative on Daniel Chester French’s sculptures, which has culminated in an online exhibition tracing race and stereotype in sculpture, with special focus on the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Lincoln Memorial sculpture, and Four Continents.

Emily will walk us through the online exhibition, exploring both historical and contemporary conversations about identity articulated through the sculptures, and talking about how digital humanities enable new stories to expand our thinking about a prolific American artist’s cultural conversations with his own society and ours.  
 
Emily Burns is the Director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s project “For the People, By the People: Transforming National Trust Historic Sites through the Humanities” has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom.