Eastman House photo curator delivers Kern lecture

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Kevin J. Miyazaki

Lisa Hostetler, curator-in-charge of photography at the George Eastman House, will speak at RIT as part of the Kern speaker series on Oct. 16.

The inaugural talk of Rochester Institute of Technology’s 2014-2015 William A. Kern Speaker Series features a presentation by Lisa Hostetler, curator-in-charge of the Department of Photography at the historic George Eastman House. Hostetler’s talk is at 6 p.m. Oct. 16 in Carlson Auditorium, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, RIT campus.

Hostetler’s talk, “The Photography Collection at George Eastman House: Past, Present, Future,” will discuss the history of the photography collection at Eastman House, its present status, and her vision for its future.

Hostetler began her tenure with the George Eastman House in 2013. Prior to that appointment, she was the McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and was the curator of photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she curated exhibitions including “Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America,” and “Taryn Smith: Photographs and Texts,” which toured internationally. She has also worked in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and contributed to the book Animals are Outside Today by photographer Colleen Plumb. She was a research associate at the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Photographs and was also registrar at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City.

Hostetler earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from New York University and earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in the history of art from Princeton University.

The Kern speaker series, sponsored by an endowment from RIT’s William A. Kern Professorship in Communications in the College of Liberal Arts, brings innovative thinkers to the RIT campus to share interdisciplinary insights into contemporary issues of communication, media and consumer culture.

For more information about the free presentation, contact Jonathan Schroeder, the William A. Kern Professor in Communications, at 585-475-2703 or jesgla@rit.edu. Interpreters will be provided upon request.