Janet Catherine Berlo

PhD, (Art History), Yale University, 1980
Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies
brlo@mail.rochester.edu

Department of Art and Art History
305 Morey Hall
(585) 275-4168

Interests:
Critiques of museum representations of indigenous peoples
Native North American visual cultures—particular areas:
- Plains Indians
- Graphic arts since 1850
- Inuit Art
- Women's representational practices
American quilt history and nineteenth-century visual culture
Publications:
Wild by Design: 200 Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts, with Patricia Crews, University of Washington Press, 2003
Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of a Lakota World, George Braziller Books, 2000
Native North American Art, with Ruth Phillips, Oxford University Press, 1998
Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935: Pages from a Visual History, Abrams, 1996
Quilting Lessons, University of Nebraska Press, 2001
Recent essays in:
A Keener Perception: Eco-critical Studies in American Art History, U. Alabama Press, 2008
The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations, U. Nebraska Press, 2008
Spiral Lands / Chapter 1, Koenig Books, 2008 (artist book by Andrea Geyer)
A Kiowa’s Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion, U. Washington Press, 2007
Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses, National Museum of the American Indian, 2007
Courses:
AH 277/477 The Museum and 'the Other'
AH 214/414 Beyond the Boundaries: Folk, Outsider, and Visionary Arts
AH 259/459 Women, Cloth, Culture