WOMEN ART DEALERS AND COLLECTORS PROMOTING NON-WESTERN ARTS: THE CASE OF PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AND THE INDIGENOUS ARTS OF NORTH AMERICA

This session pertains to WADDA | Women Art Dealers Digital Archives and focuses on one of WADDA’s goals, which is to bring attention to women gallerists who supported artists who may have been marginalized because of the gender or ethnic identity and who practiced in under-studied regions of the art market.

Our call invites scholars who work on women art dealers and women art collectors to propose papers, which explore the theme of the promotion of non-European arts from two angles. On the one hand, we are interested in proposals that will analyze the promotion and the development of the market for Pre-Columbian Art and the Indigenous Arts of North America, as well as the flourishing of the private collecting of these artifacts. On the other hand, we seek contributions about women gallerists or women collectors who supported or still support modern and contemporary artists who were/are either located outside main art centers or which art practice was/is grounded conceptually as well as aesthetically in these ancient cultures.

The session aims to highlight the marketing strategy, the exhibitions history and the editorial projects which support the advocacy of the women gallerists and well as the art collecting choices and the international networks these women created.

To submit a paper, please send an abstract (250 words), title, and a short biography in English to toschi@unistrasi.it, with the subject line “WADDA session at CAA” by August 30, 2024.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by September 16, 2024.