Shana Dumont Garr

Designed and teaching the course "The Impact of Technology on Nineteenth-Century American Art" at Emerson College, Spring 2024.

Presentation: "Tree as Monument: Does Maya Lin's Ghost Forest Cultivate Hope as a Means of Coping with the Climate Catastrophe?” on the panel Learning from Trees: Artists and Climate Solutions at the CAA conference in Chicago, February 2024

Presentation: “Maya Lin's Artwork Cultivates Diremption, Non-Attachment, and Ultimately Destitution as a Means of Coping with Human Extinction” on the art history panel Historical Reckoning on the Public Symbolic Landscape and Restorative Commemorative Projects at the SECAC Conference in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: "Picture Planes and Glyph Exchange: Feminist Offerings Fueled by Spaces Between" at the Black Mountain College Museum Conference, October 2022.