Colleen M. Stockmann
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II
Colleen Stockmann is Associate Professor of Art History and steward of the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. Stockmann has a B.A. in Studio Art from Macalester College and spent a decade as a curator in San Francisco before earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Minnesota. Colleen’s research examines plant politics, drawing instruction, and botanical printmaking.
Their current book project demonstrates how the shared rhetoric of horticulture and scientific racism played out in the politicized lexicon of gardening periodicals and drawing manuals to shape an American view of landscape and the codification of “invasive” species. Dr. Stockmann’s work has been supported by Dumbarton Oaks, The Huntington, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and Rare Book School. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded Dr. Stockmann three years of support for “Object Lessons: Repatriation, Provenance, and Access in Art History.”