Events and Lectures in March

JiÅ?í Thýn, Untitled, Composition No. 17, 2007

Join fellow members in a private tour of 50% Grey with the exhibitionâ??s curator, Karen Irvine. Refreshments will be provided. Members, please call or email Sarah Miller to reserve your spot at 312-369-7794 or sarmiller@colum.edu.

Thursday, 5:30-6:30pm

Curator Karen Irvine will moderate a discussion on the topic of creating art before and after the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. Panelists include: artist Štepán Grygar, whose work is included in the exhibitions Recent Acquisitions from the Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection of Czech Photography and 50% Grey, and who hails from a family of well-known Czech artists who all maintained careers through the political changeover, and Barbara Kalwajtys, former director of the Baruch Gallery, who will tell the fascinating story of the Chicago couple who smuggled Czech photography out from behind the Iron Curtain.

Thursday, 6 pm