George Levitine Lecture: E. Carmen Ramos, "Freddy Rodríguez: The Geometry of Freedom"
George Levitine Lecture: E. Carmen Ramos, "Freddy Rodríguez: The Geometry of Freedom"
The Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art are pleased to announce the 55th annual session of the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art. This year’s symposium will be held Friday and Saturday, February 28-March 1, 2025. Student speakers are invited from Duke University, Emory University, Penn State University, University of Delaware, University of Maryland, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
The symposium will begin on Friday evening, February 28th, with tea at 5:00pm in the Parren J. Mitchell Arts & Sociology Building Atrium, followed by a 6:00pm keynote in ASY2203. E. Carmen Ramos will deliver this year’s George Levitine Lecture hosted by the University of Maryland. Her lecture is titled "Freddy Rodríguez: The Geometry of Freedom." E. Carmen Ramos is chief curatorial and conservation officer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. She leads the curatorial, conservation, and registrar teams as they serve the nation and beyond through collections development, ground-breaking scholarship, art conservation, and scientific research. Ramos is curating a major exhibition on Dominican-born artist Freddy Rodríguez (1945-2022), opening at the National Gallery in 2027.
Ramos previously served as the acting chief curator and curator of Latinx art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), where she helped build one of the most significant collections of Latinx art at a museum of U.S. art. She organized award-winning exhibitions including ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now (2020), Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea (2023), Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art (2013) and Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography (2017). In addition to her numerous catalogues, her scholarship appears in American Art, and in books like Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture and Identity on the Island and The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art.
The Levitine Lecture will be followed by dinner at Mulligan's Grill and Pub at 7:30pm. If you wish to attend the dinner, please make your dinner reservation here by Thursday, February 13th for the Friday, February 28th dinner. The cost is $50.00 for faculty, staff, and guests, and $27.00 for Graduate students. Checks may be made out to the University of Maryland and delivered to: Dana Persaud, Department of Art History & Archaeology, 1211B Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building, 3834 Campus Drive, College Park, MD 20742