Press Release

August 12, 2004
Contact Vicki Brodnax at 407-646-2526

cornell museum begins ‘florida visions’ lecture series

with talk by harn museum director

Winter Park, FL — While Rollins College’s Cornell Fine Arts Museum is building its new and expanded facility, its high quality cultural programs will continue unabated.  The Cornell’s 2004-2005 season features notable speakers as part of its Florida Visions Lecture Series.  Directors from some of Florida’s most prestigious art museums will deliver slide lectures on their museums’ collections and their building projects.  This free lecture series is made possible through the Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholars program at Rollins College.

The first of six guest lecturers will be Dr. Rebecca Martin Nagy, director of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville.  She has been director at the Harn Museum for three years and will be speaking on  “Growing Pains: The Harn Museum Comes of Age” on Sunday, September 19, 3 p.m.,  in the SunTrust Auditorium in Crummer Hall at Rollins College.  All talks will be held there on Sundays at 3 p.m. 

The Florida Visions Lecture Series includes guests speakers Dahlia Morgan, director of the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami (October 24); Cathy Leff, director of The Wolfsonian at Florida International University in Miami Beach (November 14); Margaret A. Miller, director of The Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida in Tampa (January 23); Dr. John Wetenhall, executive director of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota (February 13); and Brian A. Dursum, director of the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami in Coral Gables (April 3).