Shana Dumont Garr
October 13, 2023
Presentation: “Maya Lin's Artwork Cultivates Diremption, Non-Attachment, and Ultimately Destitution as a Means of Coping with Human Extinction” on the art history panel Historical Reckoning on the Public Symbolic Landscape and Restorative Commemorative Projects at the SECAC Conference in Richmond, VA.
Achievements
Presentation: “Plant Beings: Portraits Signaling Beyond Humanism” at this panel and also at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference in Dallas, TX.
Co-chair with IDSVA student, Felix Lloyd, the two-session panel Beyond Humanism: Exploring Post- and Trans-Human Entanglements at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.
Presentation: "The Land as Companion: Portraits from Black Mountain College" at Reviewing: The Black Mountain College Conference in Asheville, NC.
Presentation: "Tree as Monument: Does Maya Lin's Ghost Forest Cultivate Hope as a Means of Coping with the Climate Catastrophe?” on the panel Learning from Trees: Artists and Climate Solutions at the CAA conference in Chicago, February 2024
Presentation: “Maya Lin's Artwork Cultivates Diremption, Non-Attachment, and Ultimately Destitution as a Means of Coping with Human Extinction” on the art history panel Historical Reckoning on the Public Symbolic Landscape and Restorative Commemorative Projects at the SECAC Conference in Richmond, VA.
Presentation: "Picture Planes and Glyph Exchange: Feminist Offerings Fueled by Spaces Between" at the Black Mountain College Museum Conference, October 2022.