From urban design to student hazing, the Georgia colonists to the State Seal: The Entangled, Global Histories of Freemasonry and the Visual Arts

Dr. Alisa Luxenberg, Professor of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art at UGA, will speak on November 6th from 12:20 to 1:20 on her recent research concerning the mutual significance of the social organization known as freemasonry to the visual arts, and vice versa. From this emerging field of scholarship, she will introduce several key relationships and methodological problems by way of examples from the forthcoming volume on the topic that she co-edited with Reva Wolf, along with other examples from her current projects, including a new course and future exhibition on freemasonry and material culture from the colony and state of Georgia, and another exhibition project that will address nineteenth-century Franco-American artistic education and career development.

Image: Masonic certificate, Athens, 1854, Permission of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, UGA