Our guest speaker Rebecca VanDiver, Assistant Professor of African American Art at Vanderbilt University, joins us for a Member’s-only program in the Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium with breakfast

Members-only program

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9-10 a.m. Continental breakfast in the lower ground floor

10-11 a.m. Program in the Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium

On Island: Place and Loïs Mailou Jones

Born in Boston, the African American artist Loïs Mailou Jones (1905-1998) spent most of her professional career living in Washington, D.C., where she was on the faculty at Howard University. Her summers, however, were spent on Martha's Vineyard and in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In this lecture, VanDiver will consider the significance of island spaces, places, and time in Jones’s artwork from the first half of her career (1920-1960).

This program is generously funded by the Will Barnet Foundation