Writer Oates to speak at art gallery

Oates

National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates will be the keynote speaker in the Memorial Art Gallery's all-day symposium examining George Bellows's Woodstock years on Saturday, May 3. The symposium coincides with two Bellows exhibitions currently showing at the gallery: Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock and The Prints of George Bellows: An American Master in Black and White.

Born in Lockport, N.Y., Oates has authored more than 70 books including George Bellows: American Artist. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.

Oates will be joined by four other Bellows scholars: Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Mark White, assistant professor of art history at Oklahoma State University; Marjorie Searl, Memorial Art Gallery chief curator; and Ronald Netsky, chair of the art department at Nazareth College.

The event is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the gallery. To register, call 473-7720, ext. 3072 or e-mail mmccarthy@ mag.rochester.edu.

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