About this event

The USC Pacific Asia Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary by exploring its permanent collection in-depth with unique talks and lectures presented by the museum’s curator, docents, and scholars.

Dr. Nancy Lutkehaus, USC professor, examined the art of the Pacific Islands in the museum’s permanent collection. Her conversation highlighted masks and statues from Papua New Guinea, as well as the magnificently decorated sailing canoes from the Trobriand Islands.

For questions or to request accommodations for the event, participants contacted Cristina Hernandez-Guerrero at ch45852@usc.edu.

For additional information, they visited USC PAM.

The Zoom URL was shared via email a week before the program.

More about the Speaker:
Nancy Lutkehaus was Professor of Anthropology in the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and co-director of the USC Center for Visual Anthropology. Her research focused on the cultures of the Pacific Islands, with an emphasis on the people and arts of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. She was working on a book about the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the history of the display of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Her recent article about the artist Miguel Covarrubias appeared in the Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas.