Rooted Visions: Art, Land, and Memory

This lecture looks at landscape and land-based art practices as acts of remembrance and reclamation. From Indigenous visual traditions to artists like Ana Mendieta and Postcommodity, we’ll examine how land is more than background—it’s a medium of identity, activism, and cultural survival.

Medium to Meaning: Critical Perspectives in Art History

A Monthly Lecture Series at Goucher College

What can a material say? How do artists use their mediums to express memory, identity, power, and protest?

In From Medium to Meaning, this monthly lecture series explores the art historical, cultural, and political contexts of diverse artistic practices. Spanning ancient funerary art to contemporary installation, the series centers close looking, material exploration, and critical analysis—connecting past to present, the classroom to the gallery, and the personal to the collective.

Each lecture will be presented by Liz Faust, Director of Exhibitions and Curator, and will highlight objects from Goucher’s collection, regional artists, or…