Caitlin Beach (Class of ’10) will deliver a lecture on 19-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis to be followed by an opening reception for “The Book of Two Hemispheres: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the United States and Europe” (on view through July 21) at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, in the Beam Classroom of the Visual Arts Center at Bowdoin College in Brunswick.

This talk considers how a series of statuettes depicting abolitionists, public figures, and Civil War soldiers — which have often gone overlooked in Lewis’ career and histories of American sculpture — played a vital role in networks of Black women’s craft, entrepreneurship, and activism in wartime Boston.

Caitlin Beach is an Assistant Professor of Art History, Affiliated Faculty in African & African American Studies, and interim co-director (2023-24) of the Asian American Studies Program at Fordham University, New York City. Beach’s recent book Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery (University of California Press, 2022) was a recipient of the 35th Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and The Phillips Book Prize from the Phillips Collection and the University of Maryland.

This event is free and open to the public. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is located at 9400 College Station, Brunswick. For more information, visit bowdoin.edu/art-museum.

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