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American Studies (United States) Art History Visual Arts
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American Studies Art History Disability Studies History Of Photography Prison Education
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Keri Watson (Ph.D., 2010, Florida State University) is an award-winning curator and the author of Florida’s New Deal Parks and Post Office Murals (2024), Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations In Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Practices (2023), This is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States (2023), and the Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022). An associate professor of art history at the University of Central Florida, she also serves on the board of the College Art Association and the Association of Historians of American Art and is an editor for Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Her research has been recognized and supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Florida Humanities Council, the Laughing Gull Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Watson, Keri. “Curating Controversy in the Trump Era.” Museums and Social Issues: A Journal of Reflective Discourse 12:2 (2017): 75-82
Watson, Keri and Anastasia Salter. “Playing Art Historian: Teaching 20th Century Art through Alternate Reality Gaming,” International Journal for Scholarship of Technology Enhanced Learning 1:1 (2016): 100-111.
Association of Historians of American Art, Board of Advisors; 2018 - present
Southeastern College Art Conference, Member; 2006 - present
Eudora Welty Society, Member; 2006 - present
College Art Association, Member; 2004 - present
“A Pattern of the Three: Fletcher Steele, Mabel Choate, and Naumkeag Gardens”; Popular Culture Association/American Studies Association; PCA/ASA; 2008
“The Conversation Continues: The Collection of James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett"; Lecture Series; Orlando Museum of Art; 2016
“Game-based Learning for Student Success”; University Innovation Alliance; University Innovation Alliance; 2016
“The Legacy of Henri Matisse”; Lecture Series; Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens; 2016
“Gendered and Abled Performances in the Art of Eudora Welty and Reginald Marsh,”; 105th Annual Conference; College Art Association; 2017
“Manhatta: The Legacy of Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s 1921 Cinematic Experiment"; 104th Annual Conference; College Art Association; 2016
“Difference and Disability in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White’s You Have Seen Their Faces”; SDS Annual Conference; Society for Disability Studies ; 2015
“American Sideshow: Disability during the Great Depression”; The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies; Centre for Culture and Disability Studies; 2017
“‘Before We Were Us, We Were Them’: Curating a Controversial Subject"; 102nd Annual Conference; College Art Association; 2014
“The Southern Civil Rights Movement and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”; 101st Annual Conference; College Art Association; 2013
“Secret Societies of the Avant-garde”; GLS 11; Games, Learning, Society; 2015
“Playing Art Historian: Designing an Adventure Game for 20th-Century Art History Courses”; HASTAC; Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory; 2015
“Representing the Sideshow: Dis/Ability and Difference during the Great Depression”; 61st Annual Southeastern College Art Conference; SECAC; 2014
“Elizabeth McCausland: Critic, Curator, and Activist"; 60th Annual Southeastern College Art Conference,; SECAC; 2013
“Freaks, Gaffs, and Photographs: (Dis)ability and the Great Depression”; 54th Annual Convention; Midwest Modern Language Association ; 2012
“Captioning the Image: The Significance of Text in You Have Seen Their Faces"; 58th Annual Southeastern College Art Conference; SECAC; 2011
“One Time: One Place?: The Political Performance of Photography”; South Atlantic Modern Language Association; SAMLA; 2010
“Diachronic Readings: Eudora Welty’s 1930s Photographs”; 56th Annual Southeastern College Art Conference; SECAC; 2009
“‘Black Saturday’: Eudora Welty’s Unpublished Photographic Essay of Depression-era Mississippi"; 20th Annual American Literature Association Conference; ALA; 2009
Keri Watson (Ph.D., 2010, Florida State University) is an award-winning curator and the author of Florida’s New Deal Parks and Post Office Murals (2024), Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations In Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Practices (2023), This is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States (2023), and the Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022). An associate professor of art history at the University of Central Florida, she also serves on the board of the College Art Association and the Association of Historians of American Art and is an editor for Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Her research has been recognized and supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Florida Humanities Council, the Laughing Gull Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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