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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Dec 15, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: A Seminar: Meaning and Metaphor in the Statue of Liberty Register in advance for this webinar: https://madisonsquarepark-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_91ajAyv3Tuiw1ZNJGSaPew After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Abigail DeVille (Photo credit: Tonje Thilesen ) Abigail DeVille (b. 1981) creates sculpture, installation and performance incorporating found materials from her neighborhood and streets around the exhibition venue. Her work focuses on gentrification, lost regional histories, community transformation and racism. She has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Institute of Contemporary Art, LA; New Museum; and the Stedelijk. DeVille received a BFA from Fashion Institute of Technology, an MFA from Yale University, and attended Skowhegan School. Residencies include International Studio and Curatorial Program, Studio Museum in Harlem, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Rauschenberg Foundation and American Academy in Rome. She's received awards from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Van Lier Fund of New York Community Trust, Creative Capital, United States Artists and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. DeVille is on faculty at MICA in Baltimore and Yale School of Art. She was born in New York and works in the Bronx. Edward Berenson Edward Berenson is professor and chair of the history department at NYU. He is a cultural historian specializing in the history of modern France and its empire, with additional interests in the history of Britain, the British Empire, and the United States. He is the author, most recently, of "The Statue of Liberty. A Transatlantic Story" (2012), "Europe in the Modern World" (2016 and 2020), and "The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town" (2019). Berenson has won distinguished teaching awards from UCLA and the American Historical Association and, in 2006, was decorated by the French government as Chevalier dans l’ordre du Mérit. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Senior Fellow at the National September 11 Memorial Museum charged with directing the Museum’s Mellon-funded postdoctoral fellowship program.

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