Midwest Art History Society

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Thursday the 14th was a stimulating day of art and art history. I was in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Midwest Art History Society annual conference, at which I presented my paper, "The Tomioka Silk Mill: Factory Women, the Nation, and Meiji Period Visual Culture" in the session "Art and the Body." I received some helpful feedback from the other participants and thoroughly enjoyed listening to other art historians present their research. The conference was held at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, a beautiful facility. We had the opportunity to tour the sculpture park with the curator of sculpture in the afternoon; I particularly enjoyed the Kenneth Snelson "B-Tree II" (above) and the Alexander Liberman "Aria" (below).
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After the evening conference reception we were treated to a public talk with the artist Jim Dine, which accompanied the exhibition of his work currently on view in the gallery (below).
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