SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2011

10 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Cost: FREE to Museum Members
at the Family level and above

$5 per participant for non-members

Join us for a come-and-go day of crafts and quilts with your family. Explore our current exhibition, A Survey of Gee’s Bend Quilts, with your family and create a unique craft to take home!
This is event is open for children and parents of all ages. To reserve a spot for your child, email Sarah Story at sarah.eloise.story@gmail.com or telephone the museum education department at 662.915.7205.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011,

7:00–8:00p.m.

NUTT AUDITORIUM
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI CAMPUS

$10 for museum members
$15 for general admission
$5 for students with ID

Dr. Robert Storr, a world renowned artist and critic, is Dean of the Yale School of Art. Dr. Storr was director of the Venice Biennale in 2007, and from 1990 to 2002 was Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Mr. Bruce Levingston is an acclaimed concert pianist and one of today’s leading figures in classical music. He has premiered numerous works at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and has appeared in concerts and recitals throughout the world. He is founder and Artistic Director of Premiere Commission, Inc., a foundation that has commissioned and premiered over forty new works.

For this remarkable evening, Dr. Storr will lecture on developments in Modern Art including the work of Eugene Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Jackson Pollock, Sol LeWitt, and Chuck Close, while Mr. Levingston will respond with performances of compositions from Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, John Cage, and Philip Glass. There will be a question and answer session immediately following.

Tickets can be purchased at the University of Mississippi Box Office by going or by calling 662.915.7411.

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The Friends of the Museum invite you to join us for cocktails
at the museum before the lecture from 4:45 – 6:45 p.m.

FREE to Museum members at the family level and above. $25 for non-members.