Symposium | Image and Identity: Representing Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest before 1900
Attributed to Lon Kelly or Alice Snearly, Henrietta, Texas, Comanche Child in Buckskin Dress, Holding a Beaded Cane, c. 1895–1908, print reproduced from glass-plate negative, the Lon Kelly Collection, image courtesy of the Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Oklahoma.
2023 David B. Warren Symposium | Keynote Speaker: Tiffany Momon, assistant professor of history, Sewanee, the University of the South; founder and co-director, the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
Texas Hallway & Alcove at Bayou Bend
Thomas Flintoff, Portrait of the Jones Children of Galveston, c. 1851, oil on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg.
Thomas Flintoff, Portrait of the Jones Children of Galveston, c. 1851, oil on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg.
April 28 & 29, 2023
The biennial David B. Warren Symposium addresses different aspects of the theme “American Material Culture and the Texas Experience” before 1900. The symposium was established in honor of David B. Warren, founding director emeritus of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens.
The 2023 symposium focuses on “Image and Identity.” The presentations explore the ways images that were created in and of Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest constructed, represented, dismantled, or concealed the identity of the people who lived there.
These events take place at Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building on the MFAH main campus. Parking is available under the Kinder Building (5500 Main) and under the Glassell School (5100 Montrose). Advance tickets and registration are highly recommended.
Tickets & Registration
Online via Zoom
Attend in Person
One ticket, good for both days, includes admission to the Friday evening and Saturday afternoon receptions with the speakers, and a box lunch on Saturday.
$30 Adults
$25 MFAH Members
$10 Students
More Information
Questions? Contact warrensymposium@mfah.org
Schedule
Friday, April 28 | 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Keynote Address
- All That They Made: Identity, Representation, and the Black Presence in Decorative Arts Period Rooms Presented by Tiffany Momon, assistant professor of history, Sewanee, the University of the South; founder and co-director, the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
Saturday, April 29 | 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Presentation of Papers
- Reframing Texas Identity: 19th-Century Women Photographers Constructing Counter-Narratives Presented by Jessica Brit Ingle, PhD candidate, University of Texas at Dallas
- “Reading” Portraits of Slavery: Literacy and Unfreedom Presented by Jennifer Van Horn, associate professor of art history and history, University of Delaware
- Classic Mimbres’ World Beyond the Painted Pottery: Iconic Stories about Ancestors Presented by Harry J. Shafer, curator of archaeology, the Witte Museum, San Antonio
- Las Reinas: Visual and Material Culture of the San Antonio Chili Queens Presented by Laura Ochoa Rincon, decorative arts trust curatorial fellow, New Orleans Museum of Art
- Cowboys of Color: The Intriguing Visual Record of Black, Brown, and Indigenous Cowboys in 19th-Century Texas Presented by Jouette Travis, art history student, University of Texas at Dallas