The New Britain Museum of American Art is hosting a distinguished lecture online by CCSU historian, Dr. Dann J. Broyld.
The Museum says that the lecture is, “an examination of the history of graffiti as it moved from the grassroots and streets to formal museum galleries.”
Dr. Broyld’s lecture, the Museum says, “will address the modern quest in several urban centers to have legal public spaces for free-form art.” The Museum also says that, “this virtual talk will weave in how the dynamic work of Shantell Martin and how her philosophy of “draw on everything” fits into this conversation.”
The Robert Lehman Distinguished Lecture event is to be held on Thursday, February 4, 2021. It is to be presented on Zoom at 6:30pm. The Museum has a registration page for the event on its website.
Dr. Broyld’s biography says that he,
is an assistant professor of Public History & African American History at Central Connecticut State University. He earned his PhD in nineteenth-century United States and African Diaspora history at Howard University in 2011. His work focuses on the American-Canadian borderlands and issues of Black identity, migration, and transnational relations as well as oral history and museum-community interaction. Broyld is currently working on a manuscript with the University of Toronto Press.
His publications, according to his biography, include Borderland Blacks: Rochester, New York and St. Catharines, Canada West, 1800-1861, “Fannin’ Flies and Tellin’ Lies: Black Runaways and American Tales of Life in British Canada Before the Civil War,” “Rochester, New York: A Transnational Community for Blacks Prior to the Civil War,” and “The ‘Dark Sheep’ of the Atlantic World: Following the Transnational Trail of Blacks to Canada.”
The New Britain Museum of American Art has said that its, “founding in 1903 entitles the institution to be designated the first museum of strictly American art in the country,” adding that,
With particular strengths in colonial portraiture, the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and the Ash Can School, not to mention the important mural series The Arts of Life in America by Thomas Hart Benton, the museum relies heavily on its permanent collection for exhibitions and programming, yet also displays a significant number of borrowed shows and work by emerging artists. The singular focus on American art and its panoramic view of American artistic achievement make the New Britain Museum of American Art a significant teaching resource available to the local, regional, and national public.
The Museum is located at 56 Lexington Street, adjoining New Britain’s historic Walnut Hill Park.
