Professor of Art History at Randolph-Macon College
Dr. Evie Terrono is Professor of Art History at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. She has published on the problematics of monumental sites and on racial and gender politics in the art of the United States. Her scholarship on the politics of the Confederate flag in the work of African American artists was published in Public Art Dialogue (2019). Her chapter on the Lincoln statue at Tredegar Ironworks in Richmond, VA, is included in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue & Resolve Controversies, (2021). She has forthcoming essays on Art Education for African Americans in Virginia in the 1930s, and on the collections of Florence Sloane housed at the Hermitage Museum and Gardens in Norfolk, VA. Her current book project Museums, Memory, and Modernism in the Old Dominion 1900-1950, examines the ideological shifts in the artistic and cultural landscape in Virginia during this period of radical socio-cultural transformations.