The Tuesday Faculty Lunch Series welcomes Joy Sperling presenting "The Female Embodiment of an Enchanted State: Women and Visual Culture in New Mexico"

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The Tuesday Faculty Lunch Series welcomes Joy Sperling, professor, Art History, presenting a lecture titled “The Female Embodiment of an Enchanted State: Women and Visual Culture in New Mexico, 1918-1950.” When New Mexico became a state in 1912, it was seriously economically depressed and its reputation desperately needed rebranding. It was known mostly as a site of vicious range wars and lawlessness, where an intrepid (male) adventurer might find good hunting and fishing, or where a ‘lunger’ (tuberculosis patient) might (or might not) recover. But none of these activities were the basis of a solid economy. Sperling’s research focuses on the establishment of the still thriving tourist industry in New Mexico, the feminization of the state’s narrative, and on the contributions that a number of women made to the visual culture of the state as they enacted the new, but remarkably tenacious narrative of New Mexico as an “enchanted” state. Her research inverts the current narrative of the visual culture of the Southwest by retrieving the work of women artists that has been erased from the historical record. She will show works and use information from numerous historical archives.


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