Curator talk on new exhibit

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Curator Talk set for Saturday

Get the inside story on the first-ever exhibit at the OSU Museum of Art’s Postal Plaza Gallery from curator Louise Siddons as she presents a talk titled “Sharing a Journey” on Saturday, March 8, at 1:30 p.m. in the gallery at 720 S. Husband Street.

“The opening exhibit, 'Sharing a Journey,' invites visitors to learn more about the art collection at OSU and join us for the future. OSU has been collecting art since the 1930s and now many of the objects are on view for the first time,” explained Siddons.

Admission is free. For more information, go to Museum.okstate.edu

Siddons is an art historian specializing in American art and the visual culture of modernity. She teaches courses in American, Native American, Modern and Contemporary art history at OSU. She received her Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University in 2005, completing a dissertation entitled "The Future of the American Race: Reproducing the Racialized Nation in Print Media, 1925-1940." She joined the OSU faculty in 2009.

Before coming to Oklahoma State, Siddons was a visiting assistant professor and adjunct curator at Michigan State University and the Kresge Art Museum for two years. Prior to that, she was an assistant curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and an adjunct instructor at San Francisco State University.