Visual Artist Series lecture by Caroline Gillaspie, Art Historian

[Kimberly Hall-Stone]

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Facchinetti,
*Fazenda Santo Antonio*

Caroline Gillaspie, Art Historian, will give a presentation titled
"Unearthing the Archive: Representing Enslavement on
Nineteenth-Century Coffee *Fazendas* in Image and Text" on Thursday, April
4, at 7:30 p.m. in Yokum 205. In the 1870s and 1880s, the wealthy owners of
Brazilian coffee estates in Rio de Janeiro commissioned paintings to
document their successful *fazendas *(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.

Dr. Gillaspie 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.

The Visual Artist Lecture Series is made possible through the support of
the Student Association.  All presentations are free and open to the public.
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