John Siewert
presents
Public Art:
Meaning, Monuments, and
Social Change
Friday, July 19: Unstable
Objects: Public Art
and Social Change
5:30
pm potluck dinner; 6:30 -
8:00 pm presentation
Saturday, July 20: Monuments
of Reconciliation in the Contemporary South
8:30
am complimentary continental breakfast;
9:00
- 10:30 am,
presentation and Q&A
Note: If you plan to attend the potluck supper before the presentation, don't forget to bring your own table setting: plates, cups and cutlery! Those who don't choose to attend the supper are more than welcome to come just for the program that begins at 6:30.
In Adshead Hall (lower level of Fletcher House on the Uplands Village Campus)
86A Church Dr, Pleasant Hill, 38578, (just off Main St. across from Pleasant Hill Elementary School)
John Siewert is
professor of modern and contemporary
art and architectural
history at The College of Wooster
(Ohio). He received
his BA in history of art
from the
University of Minnesota
and his
PhD from the University of Michigan. A former
Fulbright, Henry Luce, and Terra Foundation Fellow, he
was the Smithsonian Senior Fellow in Art History for 2012-13 at the
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery in Washington, DC, and he holds
an appointment as
honorary research fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He
publishes and lectures widely on varied topics in modern American and British art,
including issues in the recent
history of public monuments
and memorials.
Uplands Lifelong Learning Institute
