Jennifer L. Roberts is the Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where she teaches art history, print history, and material studies, with an emphasis on intersections between the arts and the natural sciences. She is the author of six books on American and European art from the 18th century to the present, including Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History (2004) and Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America (2014). Her latest work explores the reciprocity of art and astronomy: she is currently co-writing a book with artist Dario Robleto about the EEG and EKG signatures that were engraved into NASA’s Voyager Golden Record and launched out of the solar system.
Join us for a book discussion about Contact: Art and the Pull of Print with author Jennifer L. Roberts and Steven Nelson, dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Roberts’s 2021 Mellon Lectures formed the basis for Contact: Art and the Pull of Print. A book signing will follow the conversation and copies will be available for purchase.
Jennifer L. Roberts. Photo: Sharona Jacobs