Join experts for a series of dialogues on paintings from OLANA’s collection that are worth a closer look. During this program, Dr. Rosanna Flouty will lead a discussion centered on two of Church’s Catskill paintings illuminating dynamics of territorial power. Using deep looking and a short, hands-on activity, participants will examine how Church’s works serve as lenses for interrogating colonial histories and the reclamation of landscape. This conversation will catalyze discussions on the power of land as a contested site of identity, ownership, and cultural memory.
Dr. Rosanna Flouty is the Director of the Program in Museum Studies at New York University. She has worked in and with museums for three decades, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Her work and teaching lie at the intersection of museums, technology, and education.
