Boston Center for the Arts presents Alice Miceli: Impenetrable Landscapes; Chronicles of Annihilation at the Mills Gallery, curated by Michael Orwicz.

This public program in association with the exhibition features Artist Alice Miceli in conversation with Dr. Caroline Fowler, Starr Director of The Clark Art Institute,

This public programming will be held in the front South Salon at the Cyclorama, with time to visit the gallery exhibition next door.

Caroline Fowler is Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute and a lecturer in Art History at Williams College. She is a scholar of early-modern art (1400-1800) with a focus on European art and its imbrications in histories of early capital, trade, enslavement, and creation of art history as a discipline. Her most recent book Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art (Duke University Press, 2025) demonstrates the fundamental role of the transatlantic slave trade in the production of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Her other books include The Art of Paper: From the Holy Land to the Americas (Yale University Press, 2020), and Drawing and the Senses: An Early Modern History (Brepols, 2018). She is also co-editor of the series Art/Work with Princeton University Press, which presents thought-provoking essays on intersections between the practice of conservation and art history, and also co-edited a volume of Art History, “Political Ecologies of Paper.” Currently, she is working on a family history in pictures, considering how histories of plantations and race continue into our contemporary world through images, bodies, trauma, memory, and forgetting.