LECTURES
Curators Talk
Sunday, May 22, 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Join Curators Christine Fowler Shearer and Arnold Tunstall as they share the highlights of Depression-era photographers’ works with works from contemporary photographers working today, as they react to the current pandemic.
Sunday, May 22, 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Join Curators Christine Fowler Shearer and Arnold Tunstall as they share the highlights of Depression-era photographers’ works with works from contemporary photographers working today, as they react to the current pandemic.
In Search of America: WPA Arts and the New Deal Culture
Sunday, June 19, 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Join David Steigerwald, Professor of History, Ohio State University, as he explores works of WPA photography and the impact of these works on the culture of the New Deal.
Sunday, June 19, 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Join David Steigerwald, Professor of History, Ohio State University, as he explores works of WPA photography and the impact of these works on the culture of the New Deal.
Roundtable Discussion with The Pump House Guys
Sunday, July 24, 2:00 pm
Wendel Center for Art Education
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Join watercolor artists Robert Bruce, Kevin Buckland, John Cameron, Ed Kitchen, Charles Rowland, and Jeff Stahler for this roundtable discussion held in the Wendel Center for Art Education. Then tour the Pump House Guys exhibition in the Lower Gallery.
Sunday, July 24, 2:00 pm
Wendel Center for Art Education
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Join watercolor artists Robert Bruce, Kevin Buckland, John Cameron, Ed Kitchen, Charles Rowland, and Jeff Stahler for this roundtable discussion held in the Wendel Center for Art Education. Then tour the Pump House Guys exhibition in the Lower Gallery.
Meeting the Crisis with Song: Woody Guthrie and the Great Depression
Sunday, August 14, 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Join us for a living history presentation with Jeff Putnam. WOODY GUTHRIE (1912–1967) was a folksinger, songwriter, progressive political activist, radio entertainer, veteran, artist, and novelist. He is best known as the composer of thousands of songs, many of which describe the challenges of surviving during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Along with his contemporaries Pete Seeger, the Weavers, Brownie Terry and Sonny McGhee, Burl Ives, Cisco Houston, and Lead Belly, he helped bring folk, blues, and other traditional music of America into the spotlight. His song “This Land Is Your Land” was voted the most essential American folk song in a recent poll by the website Folk Alley.
Woody Guthrie had a profound influence on the folk revival of the 1950s and ‘60s and is considered the spiritual godfather of the movement. Among the artists indebted to him are Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Peter, Paul & Mary, Eric Anderson, the Kingston Trio, Buffy St. Marie, and Ian and Sylvia.
Sunday, August 14, 2:00 pm
$10/$5 members prepaid registration, $15 at the door
Join us for a living history presentation with Jeff Putnam. WOODY GUTHRIE (1912–1967) was a folksinger, songwriter, progressive political activist, radio entertainer, veteran, artist, and novelist. He is best known as the composer of thousands of songs, many of which describe the challenges of surviving during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Along with his contemporaries Pete Seeger, the Weavers, Brownie Terry and Sonny McGhee, Burl Ives, Cisco Houston, and Lead Belly, he helped bring folk, blues, and other traditional music of America into the spotlight. His song “This Land Is Your Land” was voted the most essential American folk song in a recent poll by the website Folk Alley.
Woody Guthrie had a profound influence on the folk revival of the 1950s and ‘60s and is considered the spiritual godfather of the movement. Among the artists indebted to him are Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Peter, Paul & Mary, Eric Anderson, the Kingston Trio, Buffy St. Marie, and Ian and Sylvia.
Register for Meeting the Crisis with Song
On an American Childhood: Author Talk and Book Signing
Sunday, October 16, 1:30 pm
First United Methodist Church, 163 E Wheeling Street, Lancaster
$15/$10 members prepaid registration, $20 at the door
Join Lancaster native David Contosta as he speaks about his memoir written with co-author Phillip Hazelton. On an American Childhood is a memoir of reflections on growing up in Lancaster. Attendees will be invited to reflect on projected illustrations from the memoir as David reads brief related portions of the text. Following the program, David will be signing copies of his book.
Sunday, October 16, 1:30 pm
First United Methodist Church, 163 E Wheeling Street, Lancaster
$15/$10 members prepaid registration, $20 at the door
Join Lancaster native David Contosta as he speaks about his memoir written with co-author Phillip Hazelton. On an American Childhood is a memoir of reflections on growing up in Lancaster. Attendees will be invited to reflect on projected illustrations from the memoir as David reads brief related portions of the text. Following the program, David will be signing copies of his book.
Register for Author Talk