For February First Friday, join us for a special lecture:
Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by Caroline Fowler
5:30–6:30PM in the Key Cultural Center.
In this lecture, Caroline Fowler will examine the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in forming the visual language of a period often described today as the "Dutch Golden Age." Fowler will think about how seventeenth-century artists negotiated the violence of the slave trade, and its impact on the Dutch pictorial economy, focusing in particular on Frans Post, and his views of plantations in Brazil.
Caroline Fowler's new book, Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art (Duke University Press, 2025) will be available for purchase in the museum shop and the author will sign copies after the lecture concludes.
