Lunch at the Library: "Jemima Blackburn and Fidelia Bridges" with Holly Trostle Brigham
Join us for a Lunch at the Library presentation from Holly Trostle Brigham, who will be discussing "Jemima Blackburn and Fidelia Bridges: Transatlantic Artists, Naturalists, and Conservationists."
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Visual artist Holly Trostle Brigham will discuss the research and planning for her upcoming exhibition inspired by two 19th-century women naturalist-artists, Fidelia Bridges and Jemima Blackburn. Brigham will talk about Bridges, an American, and Blackburn, a Scot, and how despite living on opposite sides of the Atlantic, both women shared common pursuits. Both Bridges and Blackburn closely observed and studied birds in nature and promoted conservation at a time when birds were being depleted by sport hunters and the demands of fashion. Despite the challenges imposed by Victorian expectations of women, both Bridges and Blackburn succeeded as exhibiting artists and published illustrators. Blackburn's observations on bird behavior were even quoted by Charles Darwin in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species. Brigham's goal is to restore the acclaim that these artists achieved in their time, bring their work to the wider attention of 21st-century audiences, put their work in cultural and historical context and create a whole new body of work inspired by Blackburn and Bridges.
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