Historical Depictions of Slavery

Art historian Renée Ater discusses the artworks referenced in Roberto Visani: Form/Reform, an exhibit of cardboard sculptures created in response to historical depictions of slavery.

Renée Ater’s research and writing have focused on the intersection of race, monument building, and public space. She continues to expand the open-source Omeka project Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past. She is Provost Visiting Associate Professor in Africana Studies at Brown University. During her tenure at Brown and in collaboration with the Center for Digital Scholarship and the Digital Publications Initiative, she is writing a digital publication titled Memoryscapes of Slavery (new working title).

Ater holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College, an M.A. in art history from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland. She is the author of Keith Morrison (The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, Vol. 5) and Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller. She taught in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland from 2000 to 2017. 

ADMISSION: Free

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