You are invited to the Brown Bag Lecture Series
 Wednesday, November 5, 2008
12 noon to 1 p.m.

A caballo entre dos mundos: Material Culture in Spanish Colonial Texas

Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Chair of the Departments of Art Education and Art History, College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas

 

This lecture employs wills, inventories, and other documents to examine the material culture of Spanish colonial Texas. From red silk bedclothes to painted screens bearing images of gallivanting lovers, the objects found in well-to-do colonial homes arrived from throughout the Spanish Empire. Unlike the colorless environments found in Hollywood films, colonial buildings were alive with bright colors, rich textures, and an array of interesting items.

Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace is chair of the Department of Art Education and Art History in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas. She received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of New Mexico in 2000. Dr. Donahue-Wallace teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin American art, the history of prints, and European early modern art. Her research addresses the history of prints in eighteenth-century Mexico City and the function of prints in the colonial context. Dr. Donahue-Wallace's findings have been published in Print Quarterly, The Americas, Colonial Latin American Review, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Tiempos de América (Spain), Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (Mexico), and Aurora. Her book, Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America 1521-1821, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2008. Dr. Donahue-Wallace has also researched and published on art history pedagogy and learning objects and is a contributing co-editor of the book, Teaching Art History with New Technologies: Reflections and Case Studies. Dr. Donahue-Wallace has been the recipient of a Humanities Texas grant, a Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, the Bernardo Mendel Visiting Faculty Fellowship from Indiana University, a Telecommunications Infrastructure grant, and many UNT faculty grants.

Image: A Spaniard and his Mexican Indian Wife and their Child, from a series on mixed race marriages in Mexico (oil on canvas) by Miguel Cabrera (1695-1768) © Museo de America, Madrid, Spain/ The Bridgeman Art Library.
 


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