LYNN PETERS
February 06, 2019-March 08, 2019
Location: Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College

Reception: Thursday, Feb. 7, 10:30 a.m.-Noon
Artist Talk: 11 a.m.
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An exhibition of new ceramic works by Lynn Peters, professor of sculpture and ceramics at Moraine Valley, developed during her recent sabbatical. Lynn will talk about her new work and about her residency at the opening reception.

January 10, 2019-February 01, 2019
Location: Robert F. DeCaprio Art Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College

Reception: Friday, Jan. 18, 6:30-8 p.m.

​The Robert F. DeCaprio Retrospective features a solo accolade to the artist’s passion for a life of art. Featured interests range from classic automobiles, European travel and architecture to graphic design. The collection of representational work shows the immense attention to detail and realism. Photography and comprehensive private travel journals will be shown as they provide insight to the artist’s eyes and creative mind. The exhibition will be featured in his  commemorative gallery and will continue into the atrium.

Tyehimba Jess's Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, Olio (2016), presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, work songs, and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess’s much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them. Tyehimba Jess’s first book of poetry, leadbelly, was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.” Olio, his second collection, was published by Wave Books in 2016 and received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Presented by the Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program.

Learn more at blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

When: January 31, 2019, 6-7:30p
Where: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208