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”. This publication focuses on the role of contemporary art in challenging society to acknowledge and legally address rape, incest, and other forms of sexual violence. In her lecture, Fryd will reflect on how she has conscientiously brought this difficult material into university and museum settings. 

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

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Smithsonian American Art Museum: McAvoy Auditorium