James Swensen

Associate Professor of Comparative Arts & Letters


Returning Home: The Art and Poetry of Intermountain Indian School 1954-1984
Traveling Museum Exhibit & Reception, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, March 2020 – Present

Returning Home: The Art and Poetry of Intermountain Indian School 1954-1984
Traveling Museum Exhibit & Reception, Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, AZ, September 2019 – March 2020

Everyone Loves Banksy, right?
Lecture, International Cinema, Brigham Young University, February 2020

Gaell Lindstrom and the State of Utah, Art at Mid-century
Weller Book Works, Salt Lake City, UT, February 2020

The Air of Collaboration amidst the Most “Awesome Sublime”: John Wesley Powell’s Photographers
Lecture, Fern and J.L. Crawford Lecture Series, Zion National Park Forever Project, UT, November 2019

“As Grand and Unusual Sights as the Heart Could Desire”: John Wesley Powell’s Photographers
Escalante Canyons Festival, Escalante, UT, September 2019

“Look, See, Behold: Increasing Spiritual Understanding through Visual Literacy
Presentation, Finding Christ in the Humanities, BYU Education Week, August 2019

Returning Home: The Art and Poetry of Intermountain Indian School 1954-1984
Traveling Museum Exhibit & Reception, Gallup Cultural Center, Gallup NM, July – August 2019

Returning Home: The Art and Poetry of Intermountain Indian School 1954-1984
Traveling Museum Exhibit & Reception, BYU Library, April – June 2019

“Time, Audience, and the Transcontinental,” Conversations Transcontinental
Center for Railroad Photography and Art, Provo, UT, March 2019

Nancy Holt Scholar’s Day
DIA Art Foundation and Holt-Smithson Estate, New York City, NY, February 2019

Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns Collaboration (1953-1954): A Portrait of St. George, Gunlock, and Toquerville
Lecture, The Dixie Forum, Dixie State University, St. George, UT, January 2019

Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange in Southern Utah: Collaborators, Competitors, Best Friends, and Enemies
Lecure, Fern and J.L. Crawford Lecture Series, Zion National Park, UT, November 2018

Notes and Thoughts on Pulitzer Prize Winning Photography
BYU Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, November 2018

Scenery, Saints, & Sinners: Pictorialist Photography in Utah
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT, October 2017

Gaell Lindstrom: In Context
Sears Gallery, Dixie State University, St. George, UT, January 2017