PROVO, UTAH.- An interdisciplinary symposium titled “Redressing American Modernism” will be held in conjunction with the new Brigham Young University Museum of Art exhibition “Thoroughly Modern: The ‘New Women’ Art Students of Robert Henri.”

The symposium will address key issues raised by the exhibition and its accompanying publication, “American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910 – 1945,” an anthology of essays by seven prominent writers concerned with the re-contextualizing of American modernism. This symposium will contribute to an expanded definition of American Modernism and will help to restore an unbiased appraisal of the artists, musicians, composers and writers of this era.