To support a two-day symposium (March 23 – 24, 2012), organized by Professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw of the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania, held at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (Philadelphia). The symposium, entitled “Polo S: Reorienting the Visual Culture of the Early Americas,” brings together a diverse group of international art historians working on cross-cultural projects situated in the Atlantic world during the height of the colonial era (circa 1600 – 1850).