Janine Boldt will be giving a public lecture titled, "Invisible Presence: Slavery and Colonial American Portraiture."

Janine Boldt is the 2018–2020 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. She is lead curator for the 2020 exhibition, Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, and was co-curator of Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic. Boldt’s current book project investigates the political function and development of portraiture in colonial Virginia.

The lecture is free and open to the public; it is sponsored in part by the Department of Art History General Activities Fees.