University Art Museum Friends of Art will present "Legacy at Risk: Artist's Homes and Studios," a lecture by nationally noted scholar, writer and preservationist Stephen May Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. at UNM's Keller Hall, inside the Center for the Arts next to Popejoy Hall. Tickets are $10 per person and are available through the UNM Ticket Office, 1-877-664-8661 or 505-925-5858 or online at www.unmtickets.com.
A skilled and experienced speaker, May will guide his audience through the homes and studios of America's best-known artists. Of the over 250 American artists' homes and studios May has identified, highlights will include the homes of Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner, James McNeil Whistler, Stuart Davis and many others.
Among the sites covered in New Mexico will be UNM's own Jonson Gallery, as well as the homes and studios of Taoseños Ernest Blumenshein and Nicolai Fechin, and Santa Feans Randall Davey and Allan Houser. May has lectured widely at museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Delaware Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Norman Rockwell Museum, and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
For more information contact Chip Ware at 277-4967.
Posted by scarr at October 24, 2007 03:32 PM