Museums in the United States like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have long represented the Anglo-American tradition of landscape painting. But what about artists who used different techniques鈥痶o explore the natural world? This lecture will attempt to鈥honor听diverse鈥痙efinitions of 鈥渓andscape鈥 by examining Wabanaki鈥痓askets and beadwork alongside鈥痗anvases by New England painters鈥痵uch as Fitz Henry Lane and Martin Johnson听Heade. It will raise questions about depictions (or embodiments) of natural resources,鈥relationships between humans and the environment,鈥痑nd鈥痚ntanglements of Native and non-Native histories.听
听Layla听Bermeo鈥痠s the Kristin and Roger Servison Associate鈥疌urator of Paintings in the Art of the Americas department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Before joining the MFA鈥痠n 2016, she co-curated the鈥Black History/Art History鈥疨erformance Art Series at Harvard University, held curatorial fellowships鈥痑t the Williams College Museum of Art and the鈥疨hiladelphia Museum of Art, and served as a guest curator at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. She holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree from听Northwestern听University and graduate degrees from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and Harvard University. At the MFA, Layla鈥痗o-organized鈥Collecting Stories: Native American Art,鈥痗耻谤补迟别诲鈥Frida Kahlo and听Arte听Popular,鈥痑nd鈥痬entored a team of youth curators who developed the current鈥痚xhibition,鈥疊lack Histories, Black Futures.鈥疞ast鈥痽ear,鈥疻BUR, a National Public Radio News Station, named Layla as one of the 25 millennials of听color听impacting art and culture in Boston.听
Organised by Professor David Peters Corbett (The Courtauld)听
