Videos Available of Mabel O. Wilson's Lecture Series at the National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art has made available video of four lectures Mabel O. Wilson delivered over four Sundays in March at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

The topic of the lectures — the 74th A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts — was on “America’s Architecture of Freedom and Unfreedom.”

Wilson, the Nancy and George Rupp Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, is the chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. Wilson is one of the leading voices in critical studies of architecture and has pioneered a way to articulate scholarship, practice, and activism in engaging with architecture’s power and responsibilities. In doing so, her work —  from books to monuments to exhibitions — has been enormously influential.