In this lecture, "In Small Things Remembered: Enslavement and Material Culture," Dr. Van Horn will speak to the relationships between enslavement and objects made of fine materials like mahogany and silver.

Dr. Jennifer Van Horn holds a joint appointment as associate professor in Art History and History at the University of Delaware where she teaches courses in American art, material culture, and museum studies. She is the author of The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (2017) and Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery, forthcoming from Yale University Press (2022). A piece of this project, published in The Art Bulletin, was awarded the National Portrait Gallery’s inaugural Director’s Essay Prize (2019).

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required, and donations are appreciated. You can support our programming with a suggested donation of $5-10.