Join us for a compelling three-part lecture series presented in conjunction with Dallas Contemporary’s current exhibition, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry. Each session is facilitated by local Art History professors who delve deeper into the ideas and histories that shape the works on display.

In this second lecture of the series, Amy Freund will address the long history and unpredictable futures of tapestry - as a technical achievement, as a political tool, and as a means of spinning raw animal and vegetable materials into human (and non-human) art.

Amy Freund is an associate professor and holds the Kleinheinz Endowment for the Arts and Education Endowed Chair in art history at Southern Methodist University. She is a specialist in eighteenth-century European art, with particular interests in the history of portraiture and in the visual representation of animals. Her most recent book, Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art, which will appear with Yale University Press in 2026, analyzes the representation of masculinity, animality, and political agency in hunting art.

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Tiffany Floyd, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UNT, will lead subsequent lectures on October 11.