American Art, Music, and Identity: Crosscurrents and Connections

Join us for a talk that explores the various connections between American art, music, and identity in conjunction with the Everson’s featured exhibition Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776-1976. In this presentation, Theo Cateforis, Associate Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University, considers ways in which both the American art and music worlds have grappled with issues of representation, especially of its most traditionally neglected and marginalized artists. As Cateforis shows, whether using portraiture to fashion powerful cultural statements or drawing on the mythic allure of American history, American visual and musical artists alike have traversed much of the same terrain in their creative endeavors.