Canceled: Jennifer Roberts and Cole Rogers in Conversation

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Join Jennifer Roberts, art historian and Johns scholar from Harvard University, and Cole Rogers, artistic director and master printer at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, for a conversation exploring the rich artistic style of living legend Jasper Johns, in conjunction with the exhibition An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Printers, 1960–2018.

Cole Rogers is cofounder, artistic director, and master printer at Highpoint Center for Printmaking. He is responsible for the organization’s strategic artistic vision and programming and works directly with resident and visiting artists to ensure their aims are achieved in the form of fine prints. Rogers is responsible for oversight of the curatorial committee, finds new artistic talent for the visiting artist program, and oversees the Highpoint Printshop Cooperative. Their publications are represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Cleveland Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Studio Museum of Harlem, Harvard Art Museums, LA Hammer Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Walker Art Center; plus numerous corporate and private collections across the United States and abroad.

Jennifer L. Roberts is Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities and Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Focusing on British and American art from the colonial period onward, she has particular interests in print history, material studies, the theory and practice of making, and the history and philosophy of science. She received her AB in English and art history from Stanford (1992) and her PhD in history of art from Yale (2000); she joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in 2002. The recipient of numerous external research awards, she will occupy the Slade Professorship in Fine Arts at Cambridge University in 2019 and give the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in 2021.