Art History 101: American Art in the Collection

Name: Art History 101: American Art in the Collection
Start: 2026-02-17T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-17T12:30:00-05:00
Location: Columbia Museum of Art

Schedule

Tue Feb 17 2026 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Columbia Museum of Art | Columbia, SC

Art History 101 is a casual lecture series that explores the CMA Collection through our four main collecting areas: Modern and Contemporary, European, Asian, and American Art. For the first time in the series, attendees have the opportunity to experience this presentation alongside the newly reopened collection galleries. In this fourth and final course, dive into American works from the CMA Collection with art historian and educator Dr. Lana Burgess.
Sign up for the full series of four classes or one class at a time. Today’s class focuses on Genre Paintings: Visions of American Life.
American Art series: $80 / $64 for members. Individual classes: $25 / $20 for members.
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January 27 — From Eden to Industry: Landscapes in American Art
February 3 — Quiet Lives of the American Still Life
February 10 — The American Gaze: Portraits in American Art
February 17 — Genre Paintings: Visions of American Life
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At the University of South Carolina, Lana Burgess holds a joint appointment between the McKissick Museum and the School of Visual Art and Design, where she teaches art history. Prior to USC, Burgess coordinated the museum studies program at Florida State University and worked as the associate curator of paintings and sculpture at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama. She co-authored “Sharing Credit: Public Historians and Scientists Reflecting on Collaboration,” with Soumitra Ghoshroy, Allison Marsh, and Sarah Scripps in The Public Historian, Vol. 35 No. 2, May 2013. She has presented her research at the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, the College Art Association, the Southeastern Museums Conference, and the South Carolina Federation of Museums. She was a fellow in the inaugural class of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries’ sponsored Kellogg School of Management's Center for Nonprofit Management in 2012. She was a recipient of the 2014-2015 Teaching Excellence Grant in Integrative Learning from USC’s Center for Teaching Excellence and the 2016 SCOER! Faculty Award from Thomas Cooper Library. Burgess is a field reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services and sits on the board of the Museum Studies Network (formerly the Committee on Museum Professional Training), a professional network of American Alliance of Museums. She also serves on the board of directors for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries.