Louise Siddons

Co-Curator of "Cimarron National 2019"

January 15, 2021

Louise Siddons is an Associate Professor of Art History, teaching courses in American and Native American visual and material culture. She has published on topics from the eighteenth century to the present and is active as an independent curator and dance educator. From 2002-07, she was a curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2005, and joined the faculty at Oklahoma State in 2009. From 2009-2014, she was also the founding curator and co-director of the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art. In 2018, she published "Centering Modernism: J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art" (University of Oklahoma Press). Siddons’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the National Endowment for the Humanities and more. In 2021 she is in the United Kingdom as a Fulbright scholar at the British Library. During her fellowship, she is completing a book about photographer Laura Gilpin, lesbian politics, and midcentury Navajo sovereignty, which is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2021-honorees/louise-siddons

Last Updated: 4 March 2021