A Beauteous Tree: Margaret Fuller's Femality

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and the UNLV Jean Nidetch CARE Center presents A Beauteous Tree: Margaret Fuller’s Femality. Curated by Jenessa Kenway, a doctoral candidate in literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, this exhibition illuminates the under-studied nineteenth-century author Margaret Fuller’s concept of “femality” by pairing artworks from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection with quotes from Fuller and other feminist writers. A Beauteous Tree includes work by Las Vegas artist Lolita Develay, along with a series of contemporary artists’ self-portraits inspired by Fuller’s writings. Visitors will be able to take part in an interactive activity that invites them to explore Fuller’s expansive ideas about gender by visualizing themselves as trees. READ MORE

Support for this exhibition is provided by the UNLV Jean Nidetch CARE Center, a Nevada Humanities Project Grant, and the WESTAF Regional Arts Resilience Fund, a relief grant developed in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support arts organizations in the 13-state western region during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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