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Adderley Lecture Series Features Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims

Presented by Massachusetts College of Art and Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Tower Auditorium

April 1, 2009

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The 2009 Adderley Lecture Series presents a talk by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, on Wednesday, April 1 at 5:15 p.m., in the Tower Building Auditorium at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. A reception in the President's Gallery will follow the lecture. Museum professional and Renaissance woman Lowery Stokes Sims has had a long and distinguished career in the arts. A specialist in modern and contemporary art, she is known for her particular expertise in the work of African, Latino, Native and Asian American artists. Sims first joined the staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an assistant in the education department before advancing to become the museum's first African American curator. During her long tenure at the institution, she curated more than forty exhibitions. Sims was instrumental in including African American and other minority artists in major exhibitions and she helped build the museum's collection by adding works by artists such as Robert Colescott, Faith Ringgold, Adrian Piper, Betye Saar, and Lorna Simpson.

After twenty-seven years at the Met, Sims left to serve as the Executive Director, President, and adjunct curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Recently, she accepted a position as the Charles Bronfman Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She has published, taught, and lectured extensively and has served as a guest curator for exhibitions around the world. The Adderley Lecture Series was established in 1995 in memory of MassArt painting student Tyrone Maurice Adderley. Tyrone was a talented and popular painting student who attended MassArt in the early 1990's. His friends and teachers felt that they could best remember him and the issues with which he struggled by establishing this series, which brings African American artists to campus who articulate both the aesthetic issues and directions of their work, and the more personal and political issues of their art-making. Further, the mission of the Adderley committee is to bring artists of color to the MassArt community in support of students of color and to act as a bridge to the greater Boston community and to address the needs of this most diversified American culture of which we are all members.

This lecture series provides an opportunity for the MassArt community to hear original voices coming from many different authentic sources. We invite artists, teachers and lecturers of color who challenge preconceptions, differentiate sources, and affirm shared meanings in art to come to the college and share their experiences and vision. Previous lecturers have included Xenobia Bailey, Renee Cox, Amiri Baraka, Danny Simmons, Lorraine O'Grady, Sharon Patton, Mel Edwards, Fred Wilson, John Scott, Willie Birch, Lorenzo Pace, Edmund Barry Gaither, Glen Ligon, Richard Mayhew, Chakaia Booker and Arthur Jafa. The Adderley Lecture is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is administrated by the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events.

Tower Auditorium Massachusetts College of Art and Design Address: 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MBTA: Green "E" line. Information: 617 879 7333 or MassArt.edu Massachusetts College of Art and Design, founded in 1873, is recognized as one of the premier colleges of art and design in the US. A public independent college, MassArt is known for providing broad access to a high quality professional arts education, accompanied by a strong general education in the liberal arts. The college offers a comprehensive range of baccalaureate and graduate degree, continuing education, and K-12 programs, taught by outstanding faculty and designed to encourage individual creativity. A major cultural force in Boston, MassArt presents public programs of innovative exhibitions, lectures, and events.