To support “Expanding Outliers in American Art”, a symposium planned in conjunction with the exhibition Outliers and the American Vanguard at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The symposium, co-organized by the University of Southern California and the University of California, Santa Barbara, intends to amplify and expand on issues represented in the exhibition, examining topics related to diversity and difference, class and race, canon formation and the art market, and the histories of overlooked regionalism in the United States.