Pictorial curator Hult-Lewis is next Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar
calendar icon11 Oct 2023
Lincoln, Neb.— Christine Hult-Lewis, the interim pictorial curator at the Bancroft Library, the special collections library at the University of California Berkeley, will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Her lecture, titled “A New Kind of Evidence: Landscape Photography in the Courtroom in the American West,” is free and open to the public.
The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.
Hult-Lewis holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California Berkeley, where she majored in humanities with an emphasis in American art and literature and a Ph.D. in American studies from Boston University with an emphasis in photographic history.
Hult-Lewis has taught classes on the history of photography and photographs of the American West at Boston University and the University of California Berkeley, and she has written on 19th century culture and photography.
At Bancroft, she curated several exhibitions on California painting, the history of photobooks, community and identity in Western photography, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
She co-authored the award-winning study of 19th century landscape photographer Carleton Watkins titled “Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs” (Getty, 2011), and her most recent publication is an essay on postwar women’s photobooks in the award-winning book “What They Saw: Historic Photobooks by Women” (10x10Photobooks, 2021).
The remaining lecture in the series is:
• Nov. 30: Terry James Conrad. Conrad is assistant professor and program head of printmaking at the University of Iowa and an Iowa Print Media Faculty Fellow. He also serves as the University of Iowa liaison to Frogman’s Print Workshops.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History & Design at (402) 472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.