Upcoming art lecture at UAF gallery

 

Upcoming art lecture at UAF gallery

Submitted by Carla Browning
Phone: (907) 474-7778

12/01/05

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Art Department announces a public lecture by Matthew Drutt, Chief Curator of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. The lecture, "Art Now," will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, at the University Art Gallery. Matthew Drutt is this year’s juror for the All-Alaska Juried Exhibition, which will travel to the Fairbanks Arts Association Bear Gallery Aug. 5-27, 2006.

Drutt is former curator at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he co-curated the popular exhibition "The Art of the Motorcycle."ξ Funding for the lecture is provided by the Arthur J. Schaible Memorial Cultural Enrichment Fund, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

For further information, contact Mary Goodwin, UAF Assistant Professor of Art History, at 474-7726 or ffmcg@uaf.edu.