Press Release

October 6, 2004
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director of frost museum at fiu speaks in

cornell museum’s ‘florida visions’ lecture series

Winter Park, FL — While Rollins College’s Cornell Fine Arts Museum is building its new and expanded facility, its high quality cultural programs continue unabated.  The Cornell is featuring notable speakers as part of its Florida Visions Lecture Series.  Directors from some of Florida’s most prestigious art museums are delivering lectures on their museums’ collections and their building projects.  On Sunday, October 24, at 3 p.m., in the SunTrust Auditorium in Crummer Hall at Rollins College, Dahlia Morgan, director of the Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at the Florida International University (FIU), Miami, will be speaking on “A Director’s Journey: Building a New Museum.”  Ms. Morgan has served for twenty years as director of the art museum at FIU.  A dedicated educator, she is founder of the nationally acclaimed Critics’ Lecture Series, and has brought to Florida such art notables as Frank Stella, Robert Hughes, Hilton Kramer, Thomas Wolfe, Michael Graves, and Helen Frankenthaler.  She has curated numerous exhibitions, including ones on Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Miró, Noguchi, etc.

Upcoming Florida Visions lectures include speakers 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).  This free lecture series is made possible through the Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholars program at Rollins College.