Margaret Rose Vendryes
The African Diva Project
A Festiba Lecture by Margaret Rose Vendryes
Sponsored by Ms. Susan Fitzsimmons the Marialice Shary Shivers Endowed Chair of Art
March 3, 2016 (Thursday)
VABL 1.125, 6 – 7:10 p.m.
School of Art
2412 S. Bus 281, VABL 1.201
Edinburg, TX 78539

Dr. Margaret Rose Vendryes is a distinguished lecturer and Director of the Fine Arts Gallery for the City University of New York. She received her AB from Amherst College, MA in Art History from Tulane University, and a second MA and Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University. She has taught at Princeton University and Amherst College before entering the faculty at York College and the Graduate Center at CUNY. Dr. Vendryes’ many honors include an American Association of University Women Fellowship and a Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her book entitled Barthé, a Life in Sculpture, published in 2008, was the first comprehensive monograph on the late African American sculptor Richmond Barthé. Dr. Vendryes’ ongoing series of mixed media painting, titled the African Diva Project, introduces a body of work enhanced by scholarly engagement with African aesthetics and its intersection with popular black music and visual culture.

Location: The Visual Arts Gallery, Visual Arts Building – Edinburg
Time: Lecture 6 -7:10 pm Thursday, March 3