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.