Fall 2024 & Spring 2025 Arts History Lecture Series

Friday Mornings:

Coffee and Conversation – 10:30 am | Lecturer Presentation – 11:00 am

Arts History Lecture Series

Arts History Lectures will be held at the Helen DeVitt Jones Sculpture Court – (Enter Through the West Doors).

$50.00 • Per Semester

$7.00 • Individual Lecture (payable at door)

Students with ID’s are FREE

*September 13th, 2024:Introduction: Early American Art and How It Changes by 1940
*September 20th, 2024: Vincent Van Gogh, From Unknown Artist to Respected Master
September 27th, 2024: Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, and the Changing Image of Painting
October 4th, 2024:The Pre-Raphaelite and Other Realistic Art Movements
October 11th, 2024: Symbolism and Fantastic Art, from before 1900
October 18th, 2024:European Art Outside of the Norm, from before 1900
October 25th, 2024: American Art at the Turn of the Century, 1900
November 1st, 2024: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Rise of Commercial Art
November 8th, 2024: Gustav Klimt, Art Nouveau, and the Influence of Decorative Art
November 15th, 2024: Matisse, Kandinsky, and the Revolution of Color
November 22nd, 2024: American Art and Culture from the 1910s
December 6th, 2024: Picasso Before Cubism, the Rose and Blue Periods

* Free/Guest Days

*January 10th, 2025: American Art and Culture from the Roaring 1920s
*January 17th, 2025: Cubism, Collage, and Assemblage: The Use of Found Materials in Art
January 24th, 2025: Surrealism: The Art of Dreams and Nightmares
January 31st, 2025: European Art Prior to World War II: Visions of the Future
February 7th, 2025: Russian Art, from before World War II
February 14th, 2025: The WPA and it’s Effects on American Art
February 21st, 2025: Mural-Based Art: When the Mexican Revolution Overtook American Art
February 28th, 2025: American Art Prior to 1940: The Growth of the American Style
March 7th, 2025: American Abstraction: Why Artists Began This New Style of Painting
March 14th, 2025: Post-War Europe: What Art was Created Following the War
March 28th, 2025: Rauschenberg and Johns: A Look to the Future of Painting
April 4th, 2025: The 1950s and How America Became the Center of the World of Art (Spring Luncheon held in the Sculpture Court after the Lecture)

* Free/Guest Days

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