MONTREAL/January 12, 2005—
Concordia artists partners with Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, a free lecture series entitled The Defiant Imagination will open to the public. Presented by Concordia University's Faculty of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the series celebrates some of the leading thinkers in every domain of the arts who maintain that the imagination plays a vital role in keeping global culture alive and ensuring its future.
Max Wyman, president of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO Arts Advocacy and author of the recent book, The Defiant Imagination, will inaugurate the series with a lecture at 3:30 p.m. on January 13th, in the Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavillion at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1397 Sherbrooke St. West). Known as Canada's own voice of culture, Max Wyman will share his broad understanding of our world and the artists in our lives.
The free lecture series, which continues until March 31st, is designed to give dynamic Concordia University professors the opportunity to present their ideas and thoughts to students, artists, and benefactors as well as to the general public. Among others, professors holding positions as Concordia Research Fellow in Art History, Concordia Research Chairs in Art History and Studio Arts, and the Canada Research Chair in Digital Image will lecture.
Other lectures included in the free series are: Miniature Painting and the Fine Art of Selfhood (Jan. 21); Communcating Heritage (Feb. 4); Singing in the Rain (Mar. 4); Violence and Touch (Mar. 11); Passages et Bifurcations (Mar. 17); Quand l'art devient recherche : ossification ou libÈration?(Mar. 31).
The lectures will be given either at Concordia University's de J.A. de SËve Cinema or at the Museum's Maxwell Cummings Auditorium. More information is available at http://news.concordia.ca/main_story/003370.shtml or by contacting Lina Uberti, Communications and Special Projects Advisor for the Faculty of Fine Arts, at (514) 848-2424, ext. 4606.
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