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The Rockwell Museum Art History Club has returned! These virtual sessions provide Rockwell Members with an opportunity to learn more about recent exhibitions, new acquisitions or other artworks within the Museum’s permanent collection. Each Zoom session includes a presentation by a Rockwell Staff Member or guest speaker and an opportunity for members to share observations, exchange ideas and ask questions.
Please join us for a special Art History Club session featuring artist Stephen Towns and the Co-Author of Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs, Lu Vickers. Lu and Stephen will discuss the history of Paradise Park and share more about the stories and photographs that inspired Towns’ recent Rockwell exhibition Private Paradise: A Figurative Exploration of Black Rest and Recreation. Participants will also have an opportunity to virtually meet The Rockwell’s new executive director, Erin M. Coe.
Each Art History Club program will be hosted via Zoom. A Zoom link is provided in your confirmation email and will include simple instructions on how to join with your computer, mobile phone or tablet.
Due to high demand, the January Art History Club will be hosted via Zoom Webinar. Members will still be able to ask questions and share observations via the Q&A and chat functions.
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About Stephen Towns: Stephen Towns was born in 1980 in Lincolnville, SC, and lives and works in Baltimore, MD. He trained as a painter with a BFA in studio art from the University of South Carolina and has also developed a rigorous, self-taught quilting practice. In 2018 the Baltimore Museum of Art presented his first museum exhibition, Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning. His work has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Artforum, the Washington Post, Hyperallergic, Cultured, Forbes, AFROPUNK, and American Craft. Towns was honored as the inaugural recipient of the 2016 Municipal Art Society of Baltimore Travel Prize, and in 2021, Towns was the first Black artist-in-residence at the Fallingwater Institute, located at Frank Lloyd Wrights’ renowned Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. In 2021 Towns was also awarded the Maryland State Arts Council’s Individual Artist Award.
Towns’ work is in the collections of Art + Practice (Los Angeles, CA), the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Boise Museum of Art, (Boise, ID), the City of Charleston (Charleston, SC), the Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI), the Huntington Museum of Art (Huntington, WV), the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington DC); Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO), the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art (Asbury, NJ); the Rockwell Museum (Corning, NY); The Westmoreland Museum of American Art (Greensburg, PA); the Wichita Museum of Art (Wichita, KS), and is held in private collections nationally and abroad.
Portrait of artist Stephen Towns by Malik Dupree.
About Lu Vickers:As she was in the final stages of writing Remembering Paradise Park: Tourism and Segregation at Silver Springs in 2014, Lu Vickers was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for fiction for excerpts for a novel in progress. She has also received two Florida Book awards and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships for fiction. In addition to Remembering Paradise Park, Lu published the novel Breathing Underwater and three other Florida history books: Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids, Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Wonderland, and Weeki Wachee, Thirty Years of Underwater Photography, with Bonnie Georgiadis.
