<div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_luh6qegs0" alt="Facchinetti, Fazenda Santo Antonio (2) Smaller Still.jpg" width="542" height="221"><br><div>Facchinetti, <i>Fazenda Santo Antonio</i><br></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Caroline Gillaspie, Art Historian, will give a presentation titled "Unearthing the Archive: Representing Enslavement on Nineteenth-Century Coffee <i>Fazendas</i> in Image and Text" on Thursday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Yokum 205. </span><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In the 1870s and 1880s, the wealthy owners of Brazilian coffee estates in Rio de Janeiro commissioned paintings to document their successful </span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">fazendas </i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(farms), flourishing with coffee bushes and a productive workforce. Yet despite the optimistic and picturesque visions presented in these paintings, estate owners faced the impending abolition of slavery in Brazil in addition to environmental crises that threatened the productivity of their fazendas. In this talk, Dr. Gillaspie will discuss the visual depictions of enslavement in these paintings, and how we may use archival records to learn more about the identities and experiences of the enslaved.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Dr. Gillaspie </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px">is the assistant curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she stewards the collection of historic American art from the colonial period through 1960. In 2023, she received her Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. Her dissertation, titled “Delicious Libation: The Art of the Coffee Trade from Brazil to the United States, 1797-1888,” examined the art and visual culture of nineteenth-century coffee harvesting and consumption in the Americas. In addition to her curatorial work, she has taught art history courses within the CUNY system and at Pratt Institute.</span></div></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-position:50% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;word-break:break-word;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:avenirlt-medium,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The </span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Visual</span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Artist</span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Lecture</span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Series is made possible through the support of the Student Association.  All presentations are free and open to the public.</span></span></div></div></div>