Kirwin, Liza
Interim Director, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
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
Publications
Selected Publications
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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
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Blog Posting
- Robledo-Diga, Kim, Kirwin, Liza, and Hill, Shannen. 2021. "Understanding the Power of Primary Sources through Home, Hand, and Heart." Smithsonian Voices Washington, DC: Smithsonian Magazine. Mar 17, 2021. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-education/2021/03/17/understanding-power-primary-sources-through-home-hand-and-heart/. 2021
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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
Contact
Location
- Archives of American Art Department
