Southern Living Idea House

Thursday, September 7

6:00 pm

Bill Holloway and Luke Sippel of Lake and Land Studio in Hattiesburg, Mississippi were the designers for the 2023 Southern Living Idea House in the Leaper’s Fork area of Tennessee, south of downtown Nashville.   Join us as they discuss this incredible home inspired by local farmhouse architecture and its rural hilltop setting.

“The Modernity of Jean-François Millet”
 by Simon Kelly, Ph.D.,
Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
Saint Louis Art Museum

Thursday, September 21, 2023
5:30 p.m. Lecture
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Reception

This lecture will explore the life and work of Jean-François Millet, exploring his

This lecture will explore the life and work of Jean-François Millet, artistic innovation and his impact on later artists including Vincent van Gogh. It will provide fresh context for the pastel by Millet, First Steps, in the collection of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art. Dr. Simon Kelly, Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum, has written extensively on nineteenth and early twentieth-century French art, with a particular focus on Barbizon and Impressionist landscape painting. He recently co-curated Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dali (2020), and his essays are included in numerous exhibition catalogues such as In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet and Becoming Van Gogh. Kelly worked previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate from Oxford University, where he also taught art history.

Collection Lecture by Nancy Strickland Fields (Lumbee)

Director and Curator of The Museum of the Southeast American Indian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke

“Woven Allegory”

Thursday, October 19, 2023

5:30 p.m. Lecture

6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Reception

Basketry can be interpreted as a visual allegory of Indigenous people. Woven in wood, reed, and grasses are the cultural identities of Indigenous people. The multiplicity of function and meaning found in Indigenous basketry share the knowledge of homelands, worldview, religion, genealogy as well as individuality. Join Nancy Strickland Fields for a lecture about Indigenous basketry based on the incredible Lauren Rogers Museum of Art basket collection to learn about the stories, knowledge and people woven in allegory.

Nancy Strickland Fields, a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, has over twenty years of experience focused in museum education, curation, and administration. She has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico; The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.; and The American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City. Her current role is director and curator of The Museum of the Southeast American Indian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Nancy is the first Lumbee graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she earned a bachelor’s degree in museum studies. She earned a master’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and is currently a doctoral student in the Public History program at North Carolina State University.

Nancy’s area of research focuses on Southeastern Native peoples and the American colonial experience.

Images:

Nancy Strickland Fields

Taposhake chufa, “elbow basket,” ca. 1900-1920s, Mississippi Choctaw, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art purchase, 68.11.