Millson Lecture
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GRETCHEN TAYLOR MILLSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
This annual lecture series was established in 2011 by John Millson, a former mathematics professor at UCLA (1980-90), in loving memory of his wife Gretchen Taylor Millson. Each year the Department invites a distinguished woman artist or art historian to give a lecture in Gretchen’s honor, who was especially interested in the overlap of feminism and art.
Gretchen Taylor Millson was born in Los Angeles on June 20, 1938 and graduated from UCLA in 1961 with a B.A. in Art. Known in the art world as Gretchen Glicksman, she worked at a number of distinguished arts institutions during her career, including the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), the International Exhibition Program of the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), and the University Art Museum in Berkeley. With urging from Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, she opened Womanspace in 1973, the first gallery in Los Angeles entirely devoted to art by women.
Honorees
*2026*Jolene Rickard\ Associate Professor, Departments of Art History + Visual Studies, Art and\ American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, Cornell University\ “Creative Defiance as Sensory Ecologies”
2025\ Kellie E. Jones\ Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Art History and Archeology, and\ Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University\ “Suzanne Jackson: Ecologies of Abstraction”
*2023*Hollis Clayson\ Professor Emerita of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the Humanities, Northwestern University\ R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, 2022-23, The Huntington Library\ “The Dark Side of the Eiffel Tower”
*2022*Mary Kelly\ Judge Widney Professor\ Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California\ “The Practical Past: Situating feminism’s intergenerational legacy in project-based works from 1973 to the present”
*2019*Mary Miller\ Director\ J. Paul Getty Research Institute\ “The Splendid and Ever-revealing Maya Murals at Bonampak”
*2018*Z.S. Strother\ Riggio Professor of African Art\ Columbia University\ “Masks and the Aesthetic Emotions”
*2017*Rose Marie San Juan\ Professor\ University College London\ “The Rib Within: Eve and Early Modern Wax Anatomical Sculpture”
*2016*Michele Bogart\ Professor\ Stony Brook University\ “Hot Town, Sculpture in the City: Power, Process, Patronage, and Public Art in New York After 1955”
2015\ Mabel O. Wilson\ Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor, Architecture\ Columbia University\ “Other Monumentalities: Race, Style, and National Architecture”
*2013*Madeline H. Caviness\ Mary Richardson Professor Emeritus\ Tufts University\ “The Jewish Hat: Badge of Shame or Mark of Honor?”
*2012*Sally Stein\ Professor Emerita, Dept of Art History and Visual Studies\ University of California, Irvine\ “Between f/stops and F-starts: Women and Photography between the “Waves” of Feminism”
Anne Wagner\ Chair Emerita, Dept of Art History\ University of California, Berkeley\ “Rosemarie Trockel’s Wonderland: A Feminist World View”
2011\ Faith Wilding\ Artist, and formerly Associate Professor of Performance Art\ School of the Art Institute of Chicago\ “Bread and Roses: Making Feminist Art and Politics”
About Gretchen Taylor Millson