Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art—A Beauteous Tree: Margaret Fuller's Femality

Curated by Jenessa Kenway

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art– The Work Shop Gallery
4505 S Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV, 89154

May 28 - July 9, 2021

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and the UNLV Jean Nidetch CARE Center present A Beauteous Tree: Margaret Fuller’s Femality. Curated by Jenessa Kenway, a doctoral candidate in literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, this exhibition illuminates the under-studied nineteenth-century author Margaret Fuller’s concept of “femality” by pairing artworks from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection with quotes from Fuller and other feminist writers. A Beauteous Tree includes work by Las Vegas artist Lolita Develay, along with a series of contemporary artists’ self-portraits inspired by Fuller’s writings. Visitors will be able to take part in an interactive activity that invites them to explore Fuller’s expansive ideas about gender by visualizing themselves as trees. Learn more

This program is supported in part by Nevada Humanities.

Mary Cady Johnson. Trees in Las Vegas, 1957. Las Vegas Art Museum Collection. (Detail)