Speakers
- Liz Andrews
- LACMA
Liz Andrews is an artist, curator, and scholar. She received her PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University in May 2019 and her doctoral dissertation is entitled An American Icon: Envisioning President Barack Obama. In this project, she examines the spectacular ascendancy of Obama to the U.S. presidency through three visual archives. She looks at presidential portraiture, three contemporary photographic projects, and images from the social media platform of Twitter. She argues that there was an urgent need to construct a public image of a black man as presidential during the 2008 election. Liz has served as an arts administrator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Tisch School of Arts, NYU, and community arts organizations in her hometown of Denver, Colorado. Liz holds BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University and a MA in Arts Politics from NYU.