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Diversity Analysis Of The Portland Art Museum's Exhibitions: A Closer Examination Through An Art Historical Lens, Emma Lancaster-Huggins
Diversity Analysis Of The Portland Art Museum's Exhibitions: A Closer Examination Through An Art Historical Lens, Emma Lancaster-Huggins
University Honors Theses
This thesis is an analysis on the diversity of the exhibits held at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon over a near ten year period, spanning from 2013 to 2022. By analyzing the ways in which the Portland Art Museum has increased the diversity of its exhibitions over the past ten years, this thesis will focus on four specific examples:
- Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,
- Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art,
- Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy, and
- Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism.
By situating this analysis within …