Curatorial Favorites: A Discussion of Asian Exports

Description

Join Lori Finkelstein, director of the Johns Hopkins University Museums, and Michelle Fitzgerald, curator of collections for the Johns Hopkins University Museums, as they discuss some of their favorite Asian export objects at Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library. Over the course of this virtual lunchtime lecture, they will look closely at specific objects and explain how these objects were produced, how they came into the collection, and how they relate to global trends in art history and collecting.

This event will be held on Zoom. Attendees will receive a link to the online forum the day of the event.

Lori Beth Finkelstein is the Philip Franklin Wagley Director & Curator of Evergreen Museum & Library and the director and curator of Homewood Museum. She received both her M.A. and her Ph.D. in U.S. history from New York University and her B.A. in North American studies from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She came to Evergreen in the spring of 2019 after a long career as a museum educator and curator at institutions including Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden in New York City, the Baltimore Museum of Industry, and the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, where she was the vice president of education, interpretation, and volunteer programs from 2010 to 2019. Throughout her career in museums, Finkelstein teaches in Johns Hopkins' undergraduate Program in Museums and Society and provides curricular support for the university's online Master of Arts Program in Museum Studies.

Michelle Fitzgerald is curator of collections at the Johns Hopkins University Museums (Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library). With research interests predominately focused on late-18th- and early-19th-century interiors in England and the Chesapeake, she has previously worked with collections including the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland State Archives, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She holds an M.A. from the University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in American Material Culture.