Wednesday, February 19 2020, 4pm Georgia Museum of Art Graham C. Boettcher is The R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. He will present a talk at the Georgia Museum of Art, "Confronting An Ugly Past, Building a Beautiful Future: The Legacy of Jim Crow at the Birmingham Museum of Art." The university community is invited - this is a free and public event. Boettcher He arrived at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2006, first serving as The Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow of American Art, and subsequently as The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, chief curator, and deputy director, prior to his appointment as director in September of last year. Boettcher previously served as a curatorial fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery, and has held research fellowships at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth and the Terra Foundation Summer Residency in Giverny, France. Among his many exhibitions are The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection, which was named to “The Season’s Best Museum Shows” by Architectural Digest in 2012, and Black Like Who?: Exploring Race & Representation (with Dr. Kelli Morgan, 2015), which was named a “Don’t Miss” exhibition by the Wall Street Journal. He is currently researching the subject of the Viking Revival in American art, and is a guest contributor to the forthcoming exhibition Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum. A native of Bellingham, Washington, Boettcher received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and an M.A. from the University of Washington. Sponsored by The Carl and Sally Gable Distinguished Professor of History.
