60-second Marquette on Dr. J. Patrick Mullins, ‘Defying Empire’ exhibit

60-second Marquette is a documentary video series from the Office of Marketing and Communication focused on interesting Marquette people and stories, told in 60 seconds or less. The latest video features Dr. J. Patrick Mullins, associate professor of history in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences and curator of "Defying Empire: Revolutionary Prints from Britain and America," an exhibition on display at the Haggerty Museum of Art.

On the eve of America's 250th, "Defying Empire" explores how 18th-century British and American prints shaped public opinion, inviting visitors to visualize a passionate, participatory Revolution.

Drawn from the collections of the Haggerty Museum of Art and the Chipstone Foundation, the exhibition brings together works by eighteenth-century Britons and Americans to frame the period as a site of transatlantic political exchange seen through more than 20 prints on paper, a selection of transfer-printed ceramics and an 18th-century maple dining table. Visitors will see a creamware jug by Josiah Wedgwood depicting "The Death of General Wolfe," prints by William Hogarth satirizing a threatened French invasion of England, and Charles Willson Peale's iconic portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

If you have an idea for a visually interesting person, research project or story affiliated with Marquette that could be the subject an upcoming 60-second Marquette video documentary, email , director of video in the Office of Marketing and Communication.