Scintillating Sculptors: Artists Augusta Savage and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet in Paris, 1922-1934 with Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller

June 5, 5:30 – 6:30 PM, free

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About Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller

Theresa Leininger-Miller is Professor of Art History at the University of Cincinnati. Selected publications include her book, New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934; her co-edited anthology, Illustrated Sheet Music in the U.S., 1830-1930 (hot off the presses from London: Bloomsbury, 2025), chapters in The Routledge Companion to African American History; Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance; Out of Context; and The Modern Woman Revisited; essays in the journals Panorama and Source; catalogue essays in Imprinted: Illustrating Race; Harlem Renaissance; Black Paris: Kunst und Geschichte einer Schwarzen Diaspora; and Picture Cincinnati in Song, with a forthcoming chapter in Reading Southern Art.

Leininger-Miller has curated eight exhibitions of illustrated sheet music and two shows of 19th-century photographs. Her national awards include those from National Endowment for the Humanities; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum; Kress Foundation, Henry R. Luce Foundation; Smithsonian Institution; Auburn University; and a Tyson Scholarship at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

This spring, the Met and Boston MFA mounted an exhibition, Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson, for which they commissioned Leininger-Miller to write an essay about Wilson’s years in Paris. She has spoken widely about African American artists in France. Last spring, she gave the Sellie Bernstingle Lecture about Nancy Elizabeth Prophet at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in celebration of the exhibition there.