W&L’s Glynn Family Professor to Give Public Lecture Adriana Greci Green’s March 31 talk will focus on Native regalia represented in Western American art.

By Brian Laubscher
March 16, 2026

Adriana Greci Green, John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor at Washington and Lee University, will give a lecture at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 31 in Northen Auditorium in Leyburn Library. The talk is free and open to the public.

Titled “More Than a Prop: Native Arts in Western American Painting and Sculpture,” the talk will address how Native regalia is represented in Western American art, which is a genre focused on activities of life in the historic West with trappers, cowboys and Native Americans as primary subjects. The talk will call upon the depictions found in paintings and sculptures from the W&L Art Museum & Galleries’ Stanley A. Kamen Collection of Western Art, while also discussing how contemporary Native artists honor ancestral regalia in their own creative practices.

“In my own work as a scholar and curator of Native American arts, I have been especially attentive to historic clothing and regalia and to the artists who created them,” said Greci Green. “I am looking forward to sharing some of the insights I have gleaned from thinking about how these distinctive works of art have been, and continue to be, represented in various contexts.”

Greci Green is serving a 12-week residency at W&L during the 2026 Winter Term, teaching Indigenous Arts of the North American Plains (ARTH 295E). Her residency is focused on deepening student engagement with the Kamen Collection, inspiring research and curatorial projects with students.

Greci Green is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. From 2016 to 2025, she was the curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Previously, she served as the lead curator for “Native Artists of North America,” the permanent reinstallation of Native American art at the Newark Museum of Art. Greci Green holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Rutgers University.

The John and Barbara Glynn Family Professorship was established in 2001 to fund annually a distinguished visiting professor who is an accomplished scholar and teacher, preferably one who brings new expertise to cover underrepresented areas of importance within the curriculum. The professor is in residence for an extended period, at least two weeks to a full six- or 12-week term; the professorship is directed by the provost. The endowment is a gift of John W. Glynn Jr. and Barbara A. Glynn in honor of their daughter, Alexandra Glynn Rowe ’92, and other family.

The Glynn Professorship lecture is co-sponsored by Office of the Dean of The College, the W&L Art Museum and Galleries and Art History department.