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TEMPLATE Art Sandwiched In: Modern and Contemporary Photography with Dr. Keri Watson

Starts December 11, 2019 @ 12:00pm , Ends December 11, 2019 @ 1:00pm

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EVENT DETAILS

December 11​ / 12-1pm

Art Sandwiched In is an informal lunchtime program with engaging speakers or films held monthly from noon-1pm with coffee and cookies provided. Bring your own bag lunch and feed your hunger for art!

Modern and Contemporary Photography

with Dr. Keri Watson

Join us for a special presentation on modern and contemporary photography inspired by the exhibitions Edward Steichen: In Exaltation of Flowers and Stephen Althouse: Metanoia.

PRICE

$3.00, payable at the door

For more information, call us at 407.896.4231 ext. 262 or email dmatteson@omart.org.

Keri Watson is the Director of the Florida Prison Education Project, Assistant Professor of Art History, and affiliated faculty in the Texts and Technology Ph.D. Program at UCF. She teaches upper level courses in 19th- and 20th-Century Art, American Art, and the History of Photography, as well as special topics courses: The Art of Walt Disney, Southern Folk Arts, and African American Art. Dr. Watson’s research, which focuses on the power of art to contribute to and challenge stereotypical representations of race, nationality, gender, sex, and dis/ability, has been recognized and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Fulbright-Terra Foundation, Southeastern College Art Conference, and Society for the Preservation of American Modernism.

Dr Watson received her PhD in Art History from Florida State University. She holds an MA in Art History from Florida State and a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University of West Florida.

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For more information, call us at 407.896.4231 ext. 262 or email education@omart.org.

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