Laura E. Smith

Associate Professor of Art History, Michigan State University

Research

Book

Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity, University of Nebraska Press, June 2016.

Anthology  Chapters

“Complex Negotiations: Beadwork, Gender, and Modernism in Horace Poolaw’s Portrait of Two Kiowa Women,” in Locating American Art: Finding Art’s Meaning in Museums, Cynthia Fowler, ed., Ashgate Press,  January 2016.

Articles

“On Indigenous Digit-al Media and Augmented Realities in Will Wilson’s eyeDazzler: Trans-customary Portal to Another Dimension,” PUBLIC: Art, Culture and Ideas, Special Issue: Indigenous Digital and New Media Art,             Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton, Heather Igloliorte, eds., Winter 2017.

“From the Desk of Laura Smith,” University of Nebraska Press Blog, June 3, 2106.  https://unpblog.com/2016/06/03/from-the-desk-of-laura-e-smith/

“Modernity, Multiples, and Masculinity:  Horace Poolaw’s Postcards of  Elder Kiowa Men,” Great Plains Quarterly 31 (2), Spring 2011.

“Picturing Zuni in the New Deal Era: The Clara Brignac Gonzales Collection  of Zuni Day School Drawings and Paintings, 1925-1945,” American Indian  Art Magazine,  Spring 2005.

“Photography, Criticism, and Native American Women’s Identity: Three Works by Jolene Rickard,” Third Text, 19:1, 2005.

Catalogue Essays

“Beaded Buckskins and Bad-Girl Bobs: Kiowa Female Identity, Industry, and Activism in Horace Poolaw’s Portraits,” in For the Love of His People:  The Photography of Horace Poolaw, exhibition catalogue.  New York and Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Yale University Press, 2014.

Reviews

Exhibition Review, Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of the American Indian Art from the Diker Collection, David Penney, curator. Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, February 14 – May 11, 2016.  Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Fall 2016.

“A Review of the Department of Art, Art History, and Design’s 2015 Undergraduate Art History and Visual Culture Symposium,”  -with Jon Frey as co-author, College of Arts and Letters Featured News, Michigan State University, March 25, 2016.  http://www.cal.msu.edu/ahsymposium

Book review, “The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward Curtis’s The North American Indian,” (2014), Shamoon Zamir, Journal of American Studies (Cambridge University Press), Spring 2016.

Exhibition catalogue review, “Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian,” (2008), Lowery Stokes Sims, ed.  Museum Anthropology Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2010).

Book review, “Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960 (2006),” by Bill Anthes, Museum Anthropology Review, 2007.2.9. (Accessible online at:                                                                         http://museumanthropology.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/mar-2007-2-9/)

Book reviews, “A Western Legacy: The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (2005) and Treasures of Gilcrease: Selections from the Permanent Collection (2003), Museum Anthropology, Spring 2006