Laura A. Lindenberger Wellen, M.A.
The Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at Austin
lauralindenberger@mail.utexas.edu
Education
PhD Candidate in Art History. The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). Advisor: Ann M. Reynolds. My dissertation, titled ‘Building a Picture’: Southern Art Communities and Constructions of Regional Identity, 1920-1945, considers artistic debates and communities of the American South during the Great Depression. Other research interests include women’s and gender studies, early German film and its influences on the Americas, visual culture, 20th century Latin American and Latino/Chicano art.
Master of Arts in Art History. UT-Austin, fall 2006. Advisor: Ann M. Reynolds. My master’s thesis, titled From Morgue to Museum: Contextualizing the Work of Teresa Margolles and SEMEFO considers contexts for Mexico City-based artist Teresa Margolles’ work in Mexico City and New York City through concepts of loss, mourning, and ethnographic display.
Bachelor of Arts in Art with emphasis in Art History and Bachelor of Arts in English. Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, 2003, with honors.
Selected Scholarships and Awards
The University Continuing Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2010.
Jacqueline Barnitz Graduate Endowment, for travel to Washington, D.C. in March 2008 for research at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and the Library of Congress.
Fellow, Smithsonian Latino Center’s Latino Museum Studies Program, Washington, D.C. Summer 2007.
Texas Humanities Grant, for a series of community outreach lectures about Latino and Latin American Art, Georgetown, Texas, 2007.
M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004-2006.
Merit scholarship, Art History department at The University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
Georgia Commission on Women’s Woman of the Year scholarship recipient. Atlanta, Georgia, 2001.
Selected Public Lectures and Papers Presented
Archiving Southern Feminisms, 1970-1980. Southern Association for Women Historian’s triennial conference, Columbia, S.C., June 2009.
Visual Transformations and Domestic Politics in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Southern Humanities Council conference, Durham, N.C., February 2009.
Gender in the Archives: An Interdisciplinary Discussion of Primary Source Research. UT-Austin, Gender Symposium. October 2008.
Bemberg Silk, Marlene’s legs, and Viewing Weimar femininities. Panel organizer and presenter for Gender Symposium panel presentation: The New Woman and the New Man: Topics in Weimar Culture. UT-Austin, Gender Symposium. October 2007.
“Always in the process of becoming:” Observations on contemporary Chicano/a art and museum practices. Presentation at the Smithsonian’s Latino Center, summer 2007.
Panelist at the Blanton Museum of Art’s Artistic License program, with Yoshua Okón (founder of La Panadería, Mexico City), Cauleen Smith (professor of film-making at UT), and Ursula Davila (assistant curator of Latin American Art), summer 2006.
Using bodies and making art: dystopian practices in Mexico City. ILASSA XXV Student Conference on Latin America, UT-Austin, February 10-12, 2005.
Heterotopias of deviation: leveling the morgue and the gallery. Southern Humanities Council Conference, Richmond, Virginia, Feb. 2005.
Contextualizing the Clothesline: Surveying public activist art. Southern Humanities Council Conference, Richmond, Virginia, Feb. 2005.
Between Worlds: Alfredo Jaar’s Rwanda Project and the Responsibility of Spectatorship. Southern Humanities Council Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Feb. 2004.
Publications
“Latino Folk Art in the South.” Essay in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. James G. Thomas Jr. To be published, fall 2009.
Staff writer for ...might be good, Austin-based online art magazine, fall 2008 to present.
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art Department of American and Contemporary Art catalogue raisonné, six essays: Celia Alvarez Muñoz, John Valadez, George Segal, Jack Tworkov, April Gornik, Robert Yarber, 2006.
Public Sculpture on University Campuses, a directory for the acquisition of public sculpture at major universities across the United States.
Book reviews and exhibition reviews in ArtLies, national art publication, including exhibition reviews of the Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata, Testsite: YUPPIE (Young Urban Proles) at Testsite, Margarita Cabrera: Maquila at Women and their Work, Construction Site at AMLI, Suspended Narratives at Lora Reynolds Gallery, and Terrestrial Arcs and book reviews of Ana Mendieta: Earth, Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985 and La Panadería, 2004-present.
Employment
Teaching Assistant and Grader, UT-Austin, The Department of Art & Art History; 2004-present.
Intellectual Entrepreneurship Mentor, UT-Austin, 2008.
Adjunct Instructor of Latin American Art, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, 2006-2007.
Curatorial intern, Department of American and Contemporary Art at The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, 2004-2006.
Research assistant to Ken Hale, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Fine Arts, UT-Austin. 2004-2005.
Languages
Spanish, German
Doctoral Exams
Community & Public Feelings: Archives, Memory, History, Examiner, Ann M. Reynolds.
Modern Literary and Photographic Imaginations in the South, 1929-1946, Examiner, Roberto Tejada.
Southern Historiography, 1890-1940, Examiner, Jacqueline Jones.
Latin American Avant-Gardes, 1900-1960, Examiner, Andrea Giunta.
Passed and advanced to candidacy, May 2009.
