In conjunction with the Northwestern University Library and the first showing in the United States of the Illustrators Exhibit of the Bologna Children s Book Fair, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art will present Jonathan Fineberg, professor of art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fineberg has published widely on modern art and has won numerous awards. He will show how children s paintings have inspired the works of such artists as Picasso, Miro and Klee. Admission is free. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Admission is free.
The Dittmar Memorial Gallery opened in 1972 to enhance the mission of Northwestern University by utilizing visual art as a vehicle for transmitting culture and knowledge. The gallery currently places emphasis on ethnic cultural art, art by emerging artists, art by or about women, artwork by Northwestern undergraduate and graduate art students and traveling art shows. Chicago writer, film actor and photographer Michael James, co-founder of The Heartland Cafe and publisher of the Heartland Journal, took the photographs that will be exhibited during a motorcycle trip to Mexico during the summer of 1962, before his junior year at Lake Forest College. A reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 16, is open to the public. Admission is free.