MURFREESBORO — Organizers of a lecture series welcoming three
renowned artists to the MTSU campus this month have announced a location change
for the first guest's visit Friday, Feb. 13.
Guy Gilchrist,
co-creator of "Muppet Babies" and cartoonist for the classic comic
strip "Nancy" since 1995, will discuss using the arts to address
social issues during his Feb. 13 lecture in Room 153 of MTSU's College of
Education Building.
Gilchrist's free
public lecture is set for 12:40 to 1:40 p.m. A searchable campus map
of MTSU, complete with parking details, is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
Also scheduled to
visit to MTSU in February as part of a 40th Anniversary Lecture Series
celebrating the accomplishments of creative people with disabilities are:
• Actor/author/teacher Estelle Condra, who will
perform a play and discuss creating live performances as an artist with a
disability during her Friday, Feb. 20, lecture in the Keathley University
Center Theater.
• Drummer Bob Stagner, who will share techniques for
helping young people with disabilities or terminal illnesses via percussion
during his Friday, Feb. 27, visit to the KUC Theater.
Like Gilchrist's
talk, Condra and Stagner's lectures are open to the public and are scheduled
for 12:40 to 1:40 p.m.
The trio’s visits are
presented by VSA Tennessee, the state organization on arts and disability that
was established in 2001 on the MTSU campus.
VSA, an
international organization on arts and disabilities, is observing its 40th
anniversary in 2014-15. Founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith and
formerly known as Very Special Arts, VSA merged with the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts in 2011 to expand its services.
You can learn more
about the lecturers and VSA at http://ow.ly/2U1CvX.
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