SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Dr. Evie Terrono, professor of art history and affiliate faculty in women’s studies at Randolph-Macon College, will be the featured speaker for The Johnson Collection’s Voices in American Art at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, at Wofford College.
The lecture, “Creativity, Collaborations and Communal Uplift: The Careers of Southern Women Artists,” will be held in the Jerome Johnson Richardson Theater in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts.
The program is free and open to the public. Students from area schools also are invited to participate in a “Career Conversations” with Terrono at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at TJC Gallery in downtown Spartanburg.
The year 2020 marks important political and cultural milestones in the history of the United States, including the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women’s constitutional right to vote as well as the 200th anniversary of Susan B. Anthony’s birth in 1820. Terrono is a highly regarded scholar on understanding gender, race and politics.
For more information about the event, go to thejohnsoncollection.org/voices-in-american-art-lecture/.