Kirwin, Liza
Interim Director, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Primary sources documenting the history of American art.
Positions
- Deputy Director, Archives of American Art 1979 -
Background And Education
Education And Training
- Ph.D. in American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park , Dissertation: It’s All True: Imagining New York’s East Village Art Scene of the 1980s 1999
- M.L.S., Catholic University of America 1984
- B.A. in Art History, Johns Hopkins University 1979
Awards And Honors
- Secretary's Research Prize, 2012
- Carl Bode Prize , conferred by American Studies Department, University of Maryland at College Park, 1999
Research And Grants
Investigator On
- âAfrican American Collecting Initiative,â The Henry Luce Foundation 2017 -
- âAfrican American Collecting Initiative,â The Henry Luce Foundation 2017 -
- The Kaplan Oral History Fund; 5 artist interviews awarded by Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. 2016 -
- African American Collecting Initiative: Increasing Representation by African American Artists in the Archives of American Art awarded by The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America-Extension 2011/2012 awarded by William & Mildred Lasdon Foundation
- Support of the Oral History Program awarded by Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Contact
Location
- Archives of American Art Department