The art history area invites you to a 1/2-day symposium In honor of Professor Alisa Luxenberg's retirement, on two topics close to Dr. Luxenberg's teaching and research, 18th-century landscape and garden design and the History of Photography. Our speakers were once students in Dr. Luxenberg's classroom at UGA before going on to university and museum careers.

* 9:00am Coffee & Pastries
* 9:30am “Amicably through the Garden,” a panel on 18th-century landscape *

“Perennial Narratives: Reading Histories through Virginian Plants in Early Modern Europe”
Lauren Cannady (UGA MA, 2006)
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

“Country Liberty, Fey Friendship: The Princess of Monaco’s Landscape Garden at Betz”
Emily Everhart (UGA PhD, 2015)
Assistant Professor, Art Academy of Cincinnati

Coffee & Tea break

* 11:00am Photography Roundtable with Dodd ARHI alums *

Laura Lake Smith (UGA PhD, 2017)
Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Alabama, Huntsville

Erin McClenathan (UGA MA/PhD, 2018)
Assistant Professor of Art History, Mercer University, Macon

Maria Kelly (UGA BA, 2011)
Assistant Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Erin Dunn (UGA MA, 2014)
Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Telfair Museums, Savannah

This event will be preceded by a Keynote lecture on Thursday 4/21 at 5:30pm by Dr. Todd Porterfield of New York University in Room S150. https://art.uga.edu/events/discovering-brazil-paris-v-meirelless-first-mass-1861