The Steampunk Symposium 2022 Program reflects upon how the Wild West has long been a subject of fascination for American artists. Presented by Fiona Finnigan. The Wild West has long been a subject of fascination for Americans and American artist. The rugged beauty if its landscapes and rough freedom of its inhabitants fascinated people living […]
The Steampunk Symposium 2022 Program explores how as America expanded its borders, it discovered a wild and beautiful West. Presented by Fiona Finnigan. The natural beauty of the “wild west” inspired a whole generation of artists who came to be known as the Hudson River School. Transcendentalism was their philosophy and nature was their church. Fiona […]
Presented at Symposium 2019 by Fiona Finnigan An introduction to Art Deco and Art Nouveau: brave new styles of art for a brave new world at the end of the Age of Steam and the beginning of the Machine Age. Fiona Finnigan has an MA in History of Visual and Material Culture ( the […]
Join us for a look at the major art and fashion movements of the Victorian and Edwardian periods: Eclecticism, Orientalism, Classism, and other Isms. Fiona Finnigan is a Graduate Student of Art History at Southern Illinois University. She is interested in the art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly Arts and Crafts […]