Omaha, NE – 12/09/08
Cost
Members: $10.00
General Public Adult: $15.00

Program begins at 6:00 PM in Joslyn’s Abbott Lecture Hall
Tuesday, December 9
Revealing Rivera: The Mexican Muralist Movement

with Michael Girón, Professor of Art and Gallery Director, Bellevue University

Beginning in the 1920’s, the Mexican Muralist Movement was an integral part of the cultural renaissance which occurred in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, and had profound social and political impact in Mexico and beyond her borders. Join us for a look at the Mexican Muralist Movement and several of its leading artists, especially “Los Tres Grandes”: Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siquerios and Diego Rivera.

Michael Girón holds an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and BFA from the University of New Orleans and is currently Associate Professor of Art at Bellevue University and Metropolitan Community College. Since 2005, he has instructed a lecture and studio course called Mexican and Contemporary Murals – the focus of which is the Mexican Mural Movement, especially Los Tres Grandes: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. Prof. Girón’s parents fled to the U.S. from Cuba in 1962. His current effort to learn his parent’s native tongue has pulled him further into all things Latino. He is currently finishing a series of moveable murals, executed with Latino students, centered on the many faces of Latino identity.

Tickets: $10 Joslyn Members; $15 General Public. Tickets will be available at the Museum, online or at the door; advanced reservations are encouraged.

Revealing Rivera is inspired by the diversity of works in Joslyn’s special exhibition Diego Rivera and presents a variety of perspectives from local and national scholars and artists. Each event in the series includes exhibition viewing. For more information about this and other programs in the series, please contact Joslyn’s Associate Curator of Education (402) 661.3862. Other programs in the series include:

* Sunday, November 9, 12:00 PM, The Art of True Fresco, workshop with Margaret Hennessey-Springe, independent artist and art historian, Lawrence, Kansas (Registration Required)
* Tuesday, November 11, 6:00 PM, Joslyn Art Museum and El Museo Latino present Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo (Ticketed Event)
* Sunday, November 23, 2:00 PM, The Art Life and Love of Diego Rivera with Sharyn Udall, Ph.D, independent art historian and curator, Santa Fe, NM