Emily Warner, "Women and Modern Muralism"

"Women and Modern Muralism": Emily S. Warner, Teaching Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London (Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, University of Oklahoma, as of Fall 2022)
This virtual symposium was held on March 24, 2022 in conjunction with the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s exhibition Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural. The exhibition re-situates Davis’s 1938 mural _Swing Landscape_, originally painted for New York’s Williamsburg Housing Project, in its historical context. Speakers expanded upon the exhibition’s themes, examining pioneering abstract muralists of the 1930s, the role of women muralists in the mid-twentieth century, the significance of swing music within Stuart Davis’s oeuvre, and the challenges of interpreting a mural as visually and conceptually rich as Swing Landscape.