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Kirwin, Liza

Deputy Director

Positions

• Deputy Director, Archives of American Art 1979 -

Primary sources documenting the history of American art. 

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• Background And Education
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• Research And Grants
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• Publications
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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

• “African American Collecting Initiative,” The Henry Luce Foundation 2017 -
• “African American Collecting Initiative,” 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

Publications

selected publications

• article

  • Kirwin, Liza. 2017. "Roy De Forest Papers." Archives of American Art Journal 56 (1):88-89. https://doi.org/10.1086/692639 2017
  • Kirwin, Liza. 2007. "Primary Sources for the Study of Studio Craft." American Art 21 (1):23-27. https://doi.org/10.1086/518292 2007

• blog posting

  • Robledo-Diga, Kim, Kirwin, Liza, and Hill, Shannen. 2021. "Understanding the Power of Primary Sources through Home, Hand, and Heart." [Blog] . 2021. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-education/2021/03/17/understanding-power-primary-sources-through-home-hand-and-heart/. 2021

• book

  • Kirwin, Liza and John, W. 2010. Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. Princeton Architectural Press. 2010
  • Kirwin, Liza and Lord, Joan. 2007. Artists in their studios: images from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. HarperCollins. 2007

Other

Location

• Archives of American Art  Department