EXCEPTIONAL LIVES IN INSPIRING PLACES

Terryl Lawrence

DESCRIPTION: Environment plays a significant role in how many artists work. Atmosphere, colors, and physical factors of place lead to dramatic invention and unique observations. This series includes lectures on specific artists and the sites where they chose to create. We will discuss how environment influences individual artists, and how their ideas and dreams affect the work they produced. Using slides, archival tapes and writings we will investigate the personal journeys each artist took.

FOUR LECTURES:

1. Gustave Klimt and Vienna -rekindling the art of Byzantium
2. Frida Kahlo and Mexico - being her own muse
3. Peggy Guggenheim and Venice - collecting contemporary art
4. Dale Chihuly and Seattle - being a glass legend

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Dr. Terryl Lawrence earned a Ph.D. in the Arts from Columbia University. She has had numerous exhibitions of her paintings and photographs in New York and Florida, and is the recipient of many awards, including a national grant in the Humanities . She wrote the preface to Chaim Potok’s Artist in Exile and taught photography, drawing and art history at CW Post College, SUNY Empire State College, FAU, and other public and private institutions. In the past, she was a fashion designer in New York, and she has written several children’s books. Currently she is a Professor at the Digital Media Arts College – Boca Raton, teaching drawing, art history, and mythology—and she loves every minute of “living with art.”