Join SVMoA for an in-person conversation with Annelise K. Madsen about Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago. Curated by Madsen, the exhibition marks the centennial of Cassatt’s death and includes more than 75 paintings, pastels, and prints of this pivotal period when she took her art making in new directions. In the prime years of her career—the late 1880s through the early 1900s—Cassatt pursued ambitious and experimental work, reinventing the representation of mothers and caretakers with children, creating complex color prints, and undertaking an unprecedented mural commission for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Annelise K. Madsen is the Gilda and Henry Buchbinder Curator, Arts of the Americas at Art Institute of Chicago. She is particularly interested in elevating historical women artists in an effort to recover and revalue the contributions and stories of female makers. In addition to curating Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism, Madsen has co-curated Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks” and curated and authored John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age among many exhibitions and publications at the Art Institute. Madsen holds a PhD in art history from Stanford University and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.

The next Museum Passport talk will take place in November.