Curator Karrie Porter Brace talks with Fred about the new exhibit Shelter and the Storm: Agnes Smedley at Yaddo located on the 4th floor of Hayden Library. The exhibit, drawn from University Archives material, reviews the life and the controversy of ASU Alumna Agnes Smedley, advocate for the oppressed, radical, war correspondent, and spy. Agnes Smedley had the longest residency at the artists’ colony Yaddo in Saratoga springs, NY.

Highlights of the program include information on Yaddo, Agnes’s travels to China and South Asia, her failed attempt at Chinese citizenship, accusations of espionage by General Charles A. Willoughby, and her burial in Beijing.

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The exhibit is on display through the end of the Spring 2009 semester and concurrent exhibits about Yaddo and its other notable artists-in-residence can be found at the New York Public Library, Harvard University’s Houghton Library, University of Maryland Library, and Stanford University Library.

For more information please see:

Daughter of Earth: Agnes Smedley Online Exhibit
The Lives of Agnes Smedley by Ruth Price
Agnes Smedley, the life and times of an American radical by Janice R. MacKinnon and Stephen R. MacKinnon
Agnes Smedley manuscript collection
Daughter of earth: a novel by Agnes Smedley

Host:
Fred McIlvain
Guest:
Karrie Porter Brace

Episode 90
Running Time: 24:38