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About Kirstin Ellsworth
I have a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Indiana University and am an Associate Professor of Art History at California State University Dominguez HillsKirstin L. Ellsworth holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Indiana University and is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University Dominguez Hills.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kirstin:
January 6, 2024
Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters
In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle, to take a position as art te…
January 14, 2023
Archaeology of Metaphor
Characterized by a search for meaning, Hirsch’s oeuvre connects psychological, scientific, and philosophical implications of form, bringing together i…
August 17, 2022
Three Women Artists
Offering a fresh perspective on the influence of the American southwest—and particularly West Texas—on the New York art world of the 1950s, Three Wome…
December 6, 2021
Art of the Northwest Coast
Originally published in 2006, Art of the Northwest Coast offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those m…
June 9, 2021
The Empress and I
In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi g…
April 27, 2021
Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from …
January 15, 2021
The Life and Art of Felrath Hines
Today I talked to Rachel Berenson Perry about her book The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light (Indiana University Press, 2019). Felrath…
August 13, 2020
Synthesis
The prolific artistic production of Vesna Kittelson always maintains autobiographical connections: her installations of deconstructed books and her lu…
May 22, 2018
Foucault on Painting
In Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Catherine Soussloff discusses an area of Foucault’s development that has remained large…
August 15, 2017
A Usable Past
A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art (Colby College Museum of Art, 2016) is a contemporary analysis of paintings, works…
July 28, 2017
Marsden Hartley's Maine
Marsden Hartley's Maine (Yale University Press, 2017), published to accompany a major exhibition of his work organized by The Metropolitan Museum of A…
June 14, 2017
Art History for Filmmakers
Gillian McIver's Art History for Filmmakers: The Art of Visual Storytelling (Bloomsbury, 2016) is a ground-breaking book that illustrates the relation…
May 23, 2017
Asking the Audience
In Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) Adair Rounthwaite examines the roles of artist, audi…
March 7, 2017
Art Follows Nature
Paul LeValley's Art Follows Nature: A Worldwide History of the Nude (Edition One Books, 2016) is the first comprehensive study of the nude in art from…
December 17, 2016
Georgia O'Keeffe
In "Georgia O'Keeffe: At Home in the Wonderful Nothing," a text accompanying the exhibition catalogue Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors 1916-1918 (Radius …
October 21, 2016
Corita Kent
Sister Mary Corita, IHM (1918-1986), was a beloved artist and teacher whose role as the rebel nun continues to inspire contemporary audiences. Corita …