'Berg Hosts Lecture On Harlem Renaissance
On Thursday, February 15, 2007, Muhlenberg College will host Curlee Raven Holton for a entitled Parallel Influence: The Unwritten Story of the Relationship of Black and White Arts, The Harlem Renaissance as a Source of Inspiration.Tuesday, February 13, 2007 01:59 PM
The lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Muhlenberg College’s Seegers Union, Room 111 and is free and open to the public.
Curlee Raven Holton is a printmaker and painter whose work has been exhibited professionally for over 25 years in more than 30 one-person shows and over eighty group shows. Holton is the chair of the art department of Lafayette College where he has taught printmaking and African American Art History. He is the founding director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI). The works produced at EPI have been included in such prestigious collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The High Museum, Allentown Art Museum and Yale University Art Gallery.
Holton’s lecture is part of Muhlenberg College’s Multicultural Center’s celebration of Black African Heritage Month. In addition to the Multicultural Center, this event is being sponsored by The Fowler Family Foundation, and The Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Consortial Professors Program.
