2024-25 Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation and Lecture: Mary K. Coffey
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Bio:
- Mary K. Coffey is Professor of Art History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She received her MA and PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1999. She is a scholar of the modern art of the Americas, with a particular focus on Mexican muralism. Her first book How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museum and the Mexican State (Duke 2012) won the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Prize in 2012. She published her second monograph Orozco’s America: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race (Duke) in 2020. In addition to these books, she has also published articles and essays on the politics of transnational exhibition, folk art, and more recently, the printmaking of Jose Clemente Orozco. Her most recent research concerns the relationship between visual culture, discarded populations, extraction, and the creation of zones of sacrifice through the modernization and development projects of the post-revolutionary state.
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- *There will be a Reception in the School of Art and Design Link Gallery to follow.
- 408 E Peabody Dr, Champaign
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Accessibility:
- The Art & Design Visitors Series endeavors to be accessible to all. If you have questions or would like to request an accessibility accommodation, please email art@illinois.edu.
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