Nell Irvin Painter

Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240 Cost: Free and open to the public More Info Description: Nell Irvin Painter, a leading historian of the United States and Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University, will discuss her transition from scholar to artist in a conversation with ... (more)Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke. This event is jointly hosted by the FHI and the Duke Library's John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture. A prolific and award-winning scholar, her most recent books are The History of White People (2010), Creating Black Americans (2006), and Southern History Across the Color Line (2002). In 2009, she received a BFA degree in painting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She is currently an MFA student in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. More information at http://www.nellpainter.com/Light lunch provided - send questions to fhi@duke.edu

Historian and artist Nell Irvin Painter will reflect upon the process of turning her personal and professional papers into an archival collection. This event celebrates the opening of the Nell Irvin Painter Papers, part of the collection of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African ... (more)American History and Culture at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Location: Perkins Library Rare Book Room