Doubly Blessed: Women Artists in the Midwest, 1840-1890

This lecture focuses on the innovative and talented women artists featured in the Illinois Women Artists exhibit on view in the Lakeview Museum gallery.

Dr. Susan Weininger will show how these Illinois women artists were often able to be more creative and inventive than their male counterparts.

Dr. Weininger is Professor Emerita of Art History at Roosevelt University. She has curated exhibitions and written extensively on Chicago artists, as well as modernist Chicago art in general.

You can find more information on Illinois Women Artists at Illinois Women Artists Project

When and where to hear this lecture: Thursday, October 13, 2011, at 10:00 A.M. at the Lakeview Museum, 1125 W. Lake Ave., Peoria, Illinois.

Other programs in the Fine Arts Society's 2011-2012 Lecture series: "Printing On Stone Surfaces in Late Renaissance Italy: Indestructible Art or Asthetic Innovation" with Dr. Judith Mann, "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble--Design for Shakespeare's Works" with Virgil Johnson,"Renaissance Art" with Dr. Sarah Glover, "Enchanted Isles of The Renaissance" with Jeffrey A. Nigro, "Niagara Falls, Icon of the Sublime" with Dr. Elizabeth McKinsey, "The Dead Sea Scrolls--Still Relevent?" with Dr. Martin Abegg Jr. and "French Nineteenth Century Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art Dr. Eric Denker.

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