Live Podcast Taping: "Locating Girlhood"

On the occasion of Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art at the American Folk Art Museum, Emelie Gevalt, AFAM’s Deborah Davenport and Stewart Stender Deputy Director & Chief Curatorial and Program Officer, joins Person Place Thing host Randy Cohen for a special live podcast taping.

Person Place Thing is an interview show built around the idea that people are often most engaging when they talk not directly about themselves, but about something they care deeply about. For this episode, Gevalt will discuss three exceptional works of girlhood art currently on view in detail.

Featuring spectacular examples of needlework and other ornamental arts made by American girls in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Locating Girlhood sheds new light on a rich but understudied genre, offering one of the most significant presentations on the subject in recent memory. This major loan exhibition brings together approximately 100 exceptional objects from over 35 museums and private collections nationwide, uniting celebrated masterpieces with remarkable lesser-known gems rarely seen by the public.

Image: Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), Anna Dorothea Foster and Charlotte Anna Dick, Dublin, Ireland, 1790–1791. Oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 37 in. Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Gift of Charlotte Hanes in honor of Philip and Joan Hanes, 2019.2.1.