Lecture: Graham Boettcher

Graham C. Boettcher is the R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. He arrived at the museum in 2006, first serving as the Luce Foundation Curatorial Fellow of American Art, and subsequently as the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, chief curator and deputy director, prior to his appointment as director in September of last year. His lecture is titled “Confronting An Ugly Past, Building a Beautiful Future: The Legacy of Jim Crow at the Birmingham Museum of Art.”

Boettcher previously served as a curatorial fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery and has held research fellowships at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth and the Terra Foundation Summer Residency in Giverny, France. Among his many exhibitions are “The Look of Love: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection” and “Black Like Who?: Exploring Race & Representation” (with Dr. Kelli Morgan, 2015). He is currently researching the subject of the Viking Revival in American art, and is a guest contributor to the forthcoming exhibition “Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890 – 1980,” organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum. A native of Bellingham, Washington, Boettcher received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University and a master’s degree from the University of Washington.

This lecture is presented with support from the Carl and Sally Gable Distinguished Professor of History.

You can watch a recording of it here.