Events Around Campus

This is very late notice, and we meant to put it up earlier, but there is a Romance Languages Colloquium today (Friday, April 3) from 3:30 to 4:40 p.m. in Gilbert Hall (room 360) on a topic many of our patrons might be interested in. The description we received reads as follows:

Dr. Nina Hellerstein will combine a discussion of French and Mexican culture, visual art, and our very own material surroundings in a presentation entitled, "Franco-Mexican Artist Jean Charlot (1898-1979), his French Connections and his Mexican-Inspired Murals on the UGA Campus."

The museum has done a lot of work and scholarship on Charlot, who served as an artist in residence at UGA in 1941 and painted the mural at the Fine Arts Building on Baldwin Street, which is currently undergoing restoration. The University of Hawaii maintains a wonderful resource on Charlot here and the Jean Charlot Foundation's website, to which we have supplied some information, is even more useful. If you have time, we recommend you make it over to the lecture.

Also, the opening reception for this year's MFA graduates at UGA will take place this evening from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The image that began this post is by John Barwick, one of the students in the show.