This conversation will explore how activists are memorialized through art and portraiture. Portrait Gallery historian Mindy Farmer and curatorial assistant Gabrielle Tillenburg will examine this topic through two case studies of anti-Vietnam War protestors: of the Kent State massacre of 1970 and activist Ruben Salazar, who was killed by a police officer later that year.

This program is hosted by PORTAL, the museum’s Scholarly Center, and is part of the Greenberg Steinhauser Forum in American Portraiture.

This program is online via Zoom. Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FZXdsckjTT2Jb6npKHIWFw

Image credit: Vietnam Moratorium by Dennis Wheeler, opaque water based paint and cut photographs on paperboard, 1969. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine.