About the Event
The Department of Art History cordially invites everyone to attend the first Katherine Tsanoff Brown Lecture of the year featuring Dr. Alvia Wardlaw, Director and Curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University and Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at TSU’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
Reception to follow. This hybrid event is free and open to the Rice community and public. Registration is encouraged.
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Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw is Director/Curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University and Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at TSU’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Wardlaw served for over two decades as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston while concurrently teaching at Texas Southern. Her publications and exhibitions include Black Art– Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art; View from the Upper Room: The Art of John Biggers; The Quilts of Gees Bend, and Notes from a Childhood Odyssey: The Art of Kermit Oliver. Dr. Wardlaw currently serves on the boards of the Orange Show Foundation and the Emancipation Park Conservancy. She is also an honorary trustee for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and is on the Advisory Board for the Blaffer Museum of Art at the University of Houston. Wardlaw recently completed a six-year term as alumnae trustee for her alma mater Wellesley College. In 2010, Wardlaw was awarded the Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of American art. In the fall of 2021, Dr. Wardlaw was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Arts Leadership by the Art League Houston. Her passion continues to be the hands-on mentoring of students of color to achieve success in the field of the arts as both artists and as impactful professionals in the museum world.
