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Janet Catherine Berlo
Professor
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Department of Art And Art History
Areas of expertise: Indigenous art, American quilt history, nineteenth century American visual culture
Press contact:
Valerie Alhart
valerie.alhart@rochester.edu
585.276.3256
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Kimono Quilts 2004-2007, an exhibition of wall quilts by art history professor Janet Catherine Berlo
December 31, 2007
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October 17, 2007
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May 04, 2004
Biography
Professor Berlo is interested in critiques of museum representations of indigenous peoples; Native North American visual cultures. Particular areas of expertise include Plains Indians graphic arts since 1850; women's representational practices; American quilt history and nineteenth-century vernacular visual culture.