A curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum will present the annual J. Bernard Schultz Lecture in Art History Thursday, Feb. 2, at the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts.
Joann Moser, curator of graphic arts at the Smithsonian, will speak at 5 p.m. in the Creative Arts Center’s Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A). The event is free and open to the public.
The J. Bernard Schultz Lecture Series in Art History was endowed in the college in 2004 by donors who wish to remain anonymous. The lecture series honors college Dean Bernie Schultz, who is also professor of art history in the Division of Art and director of the CAC .
Moser has been in her current post at the Smithsonian since 1986. Her research interests include 20th-century American prints and drawings and American monotypes. Before joining the Smithsonian American Art Museum , she was the senior curator of collections and acting director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art in Iowa City .
She is curator for the museum’s traveling exhibition,Graphic Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.Before the museum’s main building closed for extensive renovations, she organized several exhibitions, includingSingular Impressions: The Monotype in America,Prints by California ArtistsandVisual Poetry: The Drawings of Joseph Stella.
In addition to authoring exhibition catalogs, Moser has published on Jean Metzinger, the printmaking workshop Atelier 17 and collaborative printmaking in the United States before 1960. She is an adviser to the Washington Print Club and serves on the advisory boards of The Tamarind Papers, Pyramid Atlantic and Hand Print Workshop.
Moser earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Smith College in 1969. She holds both a master’s degree and a doctorate in art history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The J. Bernard Schultz Lecture Series in Art History endowment was created through the WVU Foundation, a private nonprofit corporation that generates and provides support for West Virginia University .
For more information about the lecture, contact the WVU College of Creative Arts at 304-293-4841 ext. 3108.