Selected Public Talks

“Grounds of Removal: Matsusaburo ‘George’ Hibi’s Incarceration Camp Prints” (2025)

2025 SAAM Fellows Lectures

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Presentation of dissertation research on the linoleum cut prints Matsusaburo “George” Hibi made while incarcerated for his Japanese ancestry during World War II, posing the question: What does it mean for Hibi to use a material associated with the ground to portray the grounds of his imprisonment?

"Stamped, Rubbed, Imprinted: Drawing and Impressions of Place” (2024)

Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow Lecture

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

Lecture on how artists have used drawing in an expanded field to engage with questions of place. Through processes such as stamping, rubbing, and body printing, artists including Ruth Asawa, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, Jack Whitten, and Zarina have contended with the sociocultural and political histories of their sites of production.

“Barbara T. Smith and Joan Lyons: Xeroxing the Feminine Body” (2023)

Women Artists Experiment with Xerox Talk & Tour

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Talk on how Barbara T. Smith and Joan Lyons exploited the distinct capabilities of copying technologies—the Xerox 914 and the Haloid Xerox Standard Equipment—to investigate the subject of the female nude. Followed by a roundtable discussion with Barbara T. Smith.