Anne Whitelaw, PhD

Areas of Expertise

• History of visual and material Culture in Canada
• Museums and cultural institutions
  
• Women and museums
• Exhibitions and collecting
• The writing of Canadian art history
  
• Settler-colonial Theory

Distinctions & Awards

Undergraduate Courses

Concordia University

• ARTH 370 Studies in Canadian Art
• ARTH 349 Studies in the History of Print: The Visual Culture of Advertising
  
• ARTH 390 Art and the Museum

Undergraduate Courses

University of Alberta

• ARTH 207 Survey of Early Canadian Artistic Traditions
• ARTH 257 Survey of 20th Century Canadian Art
• ARTH 249 Advertising and Visual Culture
• ARTH 400 Historiography and Methodology (topics included: Methods of Art History; Theories of Representation; Theories of Visual Culture)
• ARTH 411 Special Topics in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture (topics included: The Exhibition as Narrative Form; Museum Contexts; Representation and Otherness; Aboriginal Art and the Museum Context)
• ARTH 449 Special Topics in Advertising and Visual Culture (topics included:  Advertising and Gender: 1950 to 1975; Advertising and the Formation of Youth Culture)
• ARTH 456 Special Topics in Art after 1945 (topics included: High and Low: Debates in Post-War Culture; Art, Artists and Institutions)
• ARTH 457 Special Topics in Canadian Art (topics included: The Many Narratives of 'Emily Carr'; Cultural Nationalism and Canadian Visual Culture in the 1960s and 70s)

Graduate Courses

Concordia University
ARTH 626D Nationhood and Identity in Canadian Art: The Writing of Canadian Art History
ARTH 626E Nationhood and Identity in Canadian Art: Art Institutions in Canada
ARTH 648 Aspects of Museums and Curatorial Studies: Women and Art Institutions

Thesis Supervision

PhD
DJ Fraser (in progress)
The Feminist Archive

Jessica Veevers (in progress)
New Ontological Materialisms and the Work of Yves Gaucher

Matt Thiessen (co-supervisor) - University of Alberta
Painting and Virtuality
Convocation: Fall 2010.

MA
Katrina Caruso (in progress)
Jean Sutherland Boggs and the National Gallery of Canada

Akycha Surette (in progress)
The One of a Kind Show

Lucile Pages MA
The Museum for African Art

Béatrice Cloutier-Trépanier, MA
Vernaculars of Leisure and Festive Aesthetics: On the Contemporary Art Museum as Social Host
Convocation: Fall 2014

Zofia Krivdova, MA 
Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists
Convocation: Fall 2014

Roshi Mandeep Chadha, MA
Art as Cultural Diplomacy. Sanaugavut: Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic
Convocation: Spring 2014

Jaime-Brett Sine, MA
Reshaping Tradition: Linking Aesthetics, Cosmology and Formline in Contemporary Northwest Coast First Nations Art
Convocation: Spring 2012

Megan Bertagnolli
Beyond the Museum as Muse: Collecting, Classifying, and Displaying Objects in Contemporary Artistic Practice
University of Alberta
Convocation: Fall 2011

Jingjing Zheng, MA
Picturing the Asian Diaspora in North America: A Study of Liu Hung, Jin-me Yoon and Nikki S. Lee
Convocation: Spring 2010
University of Alberta

Alison Campbell, MA
Instigating change: investigating the meaning(s) of religious objects in St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
Convocation: Spring 2007
University of Alberta

Jessica Heninger, MA
The exhibition as memorial: Canada's travelling war art display, 1919-1934
Convocation: Spring 2005
University of Alberta

Susan Sax-Willock, MA
National potency: ritual and action code in United States Marine Corps recruiting posters from the Vietnam Era
Convocation: Spring 2004
University of Alberta

Current Research

Edited Book

Book Chapters and Journal Essays

• "'If you do not grow you are a dead duck': Funding Art Publications in Canada 1940 to 1980," special issue on Networked Art Histories in Canada, ed. Johanne Sloan, Journal of Canadian Art History (forthcoming).
• "Writing National Art Histories in Canadian Museums." in Conal Mcarthy ed. Museum Practice: Critical Debates in the Contemporary Museum, volume 4 of International Handbook of Museum Studies, Oxford: Blackwell, 2015. 
• "From the Gift Shop to the Permanent Collection: Women and the Circulation of Inuit Art." In Janice Helland, Beverly Lemire and Alena Buis eds. Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2014, 105-123.
• "A New Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts," Journal of Canadian Art History 34:1, 2013, 167-84.
• "Women, Museums and the Problem of Biography." In Kate Hill ed. Museums and Biographies: Stories, Objects, Identities. Woodbridge UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012.
• "Professional/Volunteer: Women at the Edmonton Art Gallery, 1923-1970" in Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson (eds.) Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.
• "Art Institutions in the Twentieth Century: Framing Canadian Visual Culture" in Anne Whitelaw, Brian Foss and Sandra Paikowsky (eds) The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• "Aboriginalities and Nationalities: Shaping Art History in the Post-Colonial Museum" in Jaynie Anderson (ed.) Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, proceedings of the 32nd Congress of the Comité international de l'histoire de l'art (CIHA), Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 2009, 854-7. 
• "Theorizing in the Bush: Camping, Pedagogy, Tom Thomson, and Cultural Studies" Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, Special Double Issue on New Cultural Spaces: Cultural Studies in Canada Today (Imre Szeman and Richard Cavell eds) 29:3-4, 2007, 187-209. 
• "Placing Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Canada" Canadian Journal of Communications, special issue on Culture, Heritage and Art, 31:1, 2006, 197-214.
• "To Better Know Ourselves: J. Russell Harper's Painting in Canada: A History" Journal of Canadian Art History, 26:1-2, 2005, 8-33.
• "'Whiffs of Balsam, Pine and Spruce': Art Museums and the Negotiation of a 'Canadian' Aesthetic," in J. Berland and S. Hornstein (eds), Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions and the Value(s) of Art, McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2000, 122-137. Reprinted in John O'Brian and Peter Whyte (eds) Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity and Contemporary Art. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007 and in Jonathan Finn ed. Visual Communication and Culture: Images in Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• "Nationalism and Globalization: Exhibitions and the Circulation of Objects," International Journal of Canadian Studies 16, Fall 1997, 261-267.
• "Statistical Imperatives: Representing the Nation in Exhibitions of Contemporary Art," Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 1:1, Spring 1997, 22-41.
• "Land Spirit Power: First Nations Cultural Production and Canadian Nationhood," International Journal of Canadian Studies, no. 12, Fall 1995, 31-49.

Exhibition Catalogues

• Seeing Through Modernism: Edmonton 1970-1985. Edmonton: Art Gallery of Alberta, 2008.
• "Clint Wilson" in Clint Wilson Field Work, Canada Council-funded catalogue, 2006.

Book

Edited Collection

Conferences & Lectures

• "Women as Art Brokers in Mid-Twentieth Century Canada" paper presented at the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative conference, Concordia University, 3-5 May 2012.
• "Locating Canadian Art" participant in "Ambas Americas: North and South Americas in Conversation" round table at College Art Association conference, Los Angeles, February 2012.

• "Brand NGC" paper presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada annual conference, National Gallery of Canada and Carleton University, 25-7 October 2011.
  
• "Collecting at the Art Gallery of Alberta" invited lecture to the Curator's Circle of the Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 October 2011.
• "'Please Send Pictures, Women Getting Impatient': The Circulation of Contemporary Canadian Art in the 1940s and 50s." Keynote speaker ARTHattack! Undergraduate Student Conference, the University of Guelph, 18 March 2011.
• "From the Gift Shop to the Permanent Collection: Art Gallery Women's Societies and the Circulation of Inuit Art," paper presented at the Material Culture, Craft & Community: Negotiating Objects Across Time & Place conference, University of Alberta, 20-21 May 2011.
• "'Please Send Pictures Women Getting Impatient': The Circulation of Contemporary Canadian Art in the 1940s and 50s" Adaskin Lecture in Canadian Art, University of Victoria, 21 January 2011.

• "The Legacy of Absence: Conceptual Art in Edmonton" paper to be presented at the Conceptual Art in Canada Conference, University of Toronto, 25-27 November, 2010.
• "'A Keen Propagandist for Canadian Art in the West': the National Gallery and Western Canadian art museums, 1920-1945" paper presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, University of Guelph, 14-16 October, 2010.

• "Women, Museums and the Problem of Biography" paper presented at the Museums and Biographies conference (organized by the Museums and Galleries History Group), National Gallery (London), 11-12 September, 2009.

• "Women and Museums: Volunteers or Visionaries" paper presented at Connections, inaugural conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, Concordia University, Montreal, 2-4 October 2008.
• "Aboriginalities and Nationalities: Shaping Art History in the Post-Colonial Museum" paper presented at Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, 32nd Congress of the Comité international de l'histoire de l'art (CIHA), Melbourne AU, 13-17 January 2008.

• "The Limits of Inclusion in Canadian Art History" paper presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, University of Waterloo, 1-3 November, 2007.

• "The Lively Arts: Cultural Programming and the CBC in the 1960s" paper presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, NSCAD University, Halifax, 2-4 November 2006.

• "Keeping the Eye on Fashion: Collecting and Institutional Taste at the Edmonton Art Gallery" paper presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, University of Victoria, 3-5 November 2005.
• "Rewriting National Narratives: the Galleries of Canadian and Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Canada" paper presented at the Small Countries, Big Neighbours Conference (British Association of Canadian Studies/New Zealand Studies Association), University of Kent at Canterbury, 11-14 April 2005.

Exhibitions

• Seeing Through Modernism: The University of Alberta 1970-1985, Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, May 11 to 31, 2008.
• Seeing Through Modernism: Edmonton 1970-1985, Art Gallery of Alberta and the FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, March 1 to May 11, 2008.
  

• Building a Collection: 80 Years at the Edmonton Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta, January 21 to April 2, 2006 (no catalogue).