Program

Find Your Story Here: John Hicklin’s “Ladies of Llangollen” book

Preregistration required
Free admission

Delve into the domestic world of Lady Eleanor Butler and Lady Sarah Ponsonby, two aristocratic Irishwomen popularly known as the Ladies of Llangollen. 

About this program

Join Jackson Davidow for a series of conversations that explore LGBTQ histories within the YCBA’s collection. Each session considers lesser-known artworks of different media from the eighteenth century to the present that uncover hidden narratives, challenge traditional interpretations, and illuminate the lives and legacies of important queer individuals in British art history. 

About Jackson Davidow

Jackson Davidow is an art historian, writer, and curator who currently serves as a Project Manager in the Public Engagement Division at the Yale Center for British Art. He has published essays in the New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine, The Baffler, Boston Review, Poetry, and throughout the art press, and his academic articles have appeared in American Art and ASAP/Journal, as well as in the edited volumes Modernism, Art, Therapy and Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories.

About Hannah Wirta Kinney

Hannah Wirta Kinney is an object-based researcher and educator who currently serves as the Head of Education at the Yale Center for British Art. Her research, museum interpretative practices, and curatorial projects explore structures of meaning making in museums and questions of material agency. Her work has recently been published in Panorama, ICOM’s University Museums and Collections Journal, and in edited volumes on materiality and making. She undertook her DPhil at the University of Oxford and MA at the Bard Graduate Center.

Find Your Story Here

British art is expansive and inclusive. Find yourself in our collection through these intimate talks in our galleries and Study Room followed by refreshments and connection.   

Register

Preregistration is required for this program. Please contact ycba.studyroom@yale.edu to register. 

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