Book cover titled “What Was America? Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era” by Elise Armani and Katy Siegel, featuring a painting of various people working and interacting in a surreal landscape.

Author Talk with Elise Armani and Katy Siegel  

Name: Author Talk with Elise Armani and Katy Siegel
Start: 2026-10-17T14:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-17T15:00:00.000Z
Location: The Joslyn Art Museum

Sat Oct 17, 2PM–3PM

Free, with registration required; walk-ins accepted as space allows. Register here.

Join us for a talk in Abbott Hall* with co-authors of What Was America? Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era—Elise Armani, Assistant Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, and Katy Siegel, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University. Released on Oct 13, 2026—during the year of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence—this book will be available for purchase in The Shop ($65; $55.50 for Joslyn members).

Participants are encouraged to visit the related exhibition, Made in USA: Prints for the American Revolution Bicentennial, in Hawks Pavilion, Works on Paper Gallery H5 (Oct 3, 2026–Feb 14, 2027). 

*Assistive listening system is available in Abbott Hall. American Sign Language interpretation available by request, with three weeks notice; email abelme@joslyn.org.

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