Courtney Lamb

writer/actor/director. zoo historian. art geek.

smiling Joan Jill wears a green cardigan and dress and holds up a photo of an Archimbaldo painting while sitting next to a whiteboard with the artist's name on it

Art History Moment (comedy webseries)

Actor
Director
Writer

April 19, 2021 Back by absolutely no demand–a TRILOGY! More short tales from our All-But-Dissertationalistic Expert! Season 3’s episodes feature a pandemic roomie and what it means to Work From Home when you’re always home anyway and you don’t really work. Tales from famous art history shut-ins, roommates, and iconoclasts: Giorgio Morandi, Van Gogh and Gauguin, artists working with poop, and the Guerrilla Girls!

July 30, 2019 WELCOME BACK! Spend 5 morsel-like episodes with Joan Jill Abelard, an art lover and possibly-hopelessly-but-maybe-not aspiring PhD! Season 2: Assassinations! Sculptures with holes in them! Fuzzy portraiture! Plant people! Cowards! Failed marriages! Featuring discussions of the Italian Renaissance, Barbara Hepworth, Guiseppe Archimboldo, Sol LeWitt, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

March 27, 2019 Welcome to this new series featuring Joan Jill Abelard, ABD, an art lover and loft liver who comes partially credentialed! If you like art and resent academia and sisters, you’ll love or at least tolerate the 8 bite-sized episodes of Art History Moment Season 1! Featuring discussions of James Tissot, Helen Frankenthaler, Eduard Vuillard, Edvard Munch, Mary Cassat, James Ensor, and Bob Ross.