CONWAY, Ark. (March 11, 2020) — Dr. Rachel Epp
Buller, internationally recognized art historian, will deliver a public
lecture, “Breasts, Baby Bumps, and Beyond: Maternal Bodies in Art History”
on Thursday, Mar. 19, 2020 at 4:10 pm in the Hundley-Shell
Theater in the Miller Creative Quad on the Hendrix College campus. The lecture
is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the theater lobby.
Dr. Buller is a feminist, art historian,
printmaker, book artist, professor, and mother of three. Her artistic, written, and
curatorial work addresses these intersections, focusing on the maternal body
and feminist care in contemporary art context. Her most recent book is Inappropriate
Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (Demeter Press). Other books by Epp
Buller include Reconciling Art and Mothering (Ashgate Publishing), Mothering
Mennonite (Demeter Press), and Alice Lex-Nerlinger: Fotomonteurin und
Malerin / Photomontage Artist and Painter (Lukas Verlag), the product of a
Fulbright Fellowship to Berlin. She is a board member of the National Women’s
Caucus for Art, a regional coordinator of the international Feminist Art
Project, and Associate Professor of Visual Art and Design at Bethel College.
“Dr. Buller is an outstanding scholar and
passionate feminist art historian. She speaks to the challenges of women in the
visual arts and the systemic barriers women must overcome to succeed,” said
Mary Kennedy, director of the Windgate Museum of Art. “I can’t imagine a more
timely topic in the art world today.”
For more information, contact Amanda Cheatham at
501-328-2383 or cheatham@hendrix.edu.
About the Windgate Museum of Art
The Windgate Museum of Art is the new art museum
located on the campus of Hendrix College. Scheduled to open in October 2020,
the museum is an 8,000 square-foot, environmentally controlled space that
includes three exhibition galleries. With a vision to be the premier teaching art
museum in Arkansas, the WMA will present outstanding art exhibitions,
compelling educational programs, and invigorating social activities for
students, faculty, staff, and visitors to campus. Free and open to all, the
museum will use hands-on experiences to train students in all facets of museum
work, including curatorial research, collection management, educational and
social programming, marketing and communications, as well as all aspects of
exhibition research, planning, installation, and evaluation. The Windgate
Museum of Art is made possible with the generous support of the Windgate
Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.