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The Graduate Student Lecture Series continues with the annual Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Track Ph.D. Lecture at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 15, in room 101 in Recitation Hall. Dorothy M​oss, curator of painting and sculpture at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, will present "Active Absence, the Obama Portraits, and the National Portrait Gallery."
Dorothy Moss is an alumna of the Department of Art History and received her Ph.D. in 2002. In addition to her involvement bringing the Obama presidential portraits to the National Portrait Gallery, Moss is the Director of the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and she recently curated the exhibition, "The Sweat of T​he​ir Face."
We spoke with Moss in a previous article to talk about her work behind the Obama portraits, as well as "The Sweat of Their Face."
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Dr. Dorothy Moss speaks on "Active Absence, the Obama Portraits, and the National Portrait Gallery."
11/9/2018