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Contact:
Dan Carpenter
(325) 673-4587
Marketing@thegracemuseum.org
Penn
professor to give special lecture at The Grace
Abilene,
TX (October 11, 2007) - A University of Pennsylvania
professor is making the trek to Abilene October 18 to present
a special lecture in conjunction with The Grace Museum's current
Library of Congress exhibit.
Paul Hendrickson, professor
of English at Penn, and author of the companion book to Bound
for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943, is the first
lecturer in The Grace's three-part Art Talk and Coffee series.
Hendrickson's talk,
titled "The Stories Behind Bound for Glory," will
provide an overview of the exhibition, and place the photographs
in the larger context of Depression-era documentary photography.
The lecture begins at 6:30 p.m.
A writer for magazines
and newspapers for more than thirty years, Hendrickson was
a staff feature writer in the Style section of The Washington
Post from 1977 to January 2001. Now he has a full-time
appointment in the creative writing program at Penn. He teaches
advanced nonfiction and a workshop in the documentary tradition.
At The Washington Post he was nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize six times. He has published five books, and
has been awarded various fellowships and numerous journalism
honors and awards.
Hendrickson is also
the 2005 recipient of the Provost's Award for Distinguished
Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.
The other two lectures
are scheduled for November 1 and 15 and will feature Robert
Abzug, professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin;
and David Dike, owner of David Dike Fine Arts in Dallas.
Hendrickson's lecture
is made by possible by a grant from Humanities Texas, the
state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Grace Museum
is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; and
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every Thursday. Admission is free Thursday
evening after 5 p.m.
For more information,
call 325-673-4587.
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