OXFORD, Miss. – Vanderbilt University art professor Michael Aurbach will discuss his socially-inspired sculptures at 2:30 p.m. Friday (Feb. 5) in the Speaker’s Gallery at the University Museum.
Aurbach, who will serve as a juror of the 2010 Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition hosted by the University of Mississippi, teaches sculpture and drawing, and his art has been exhibited throughout the United States. He has received numerous grants and awards, and his work has been supported by organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, Southern Arts Federation, Tennessee Arts Commission, Art Matters Inc., the Puffin Foundation and Vanderbilt University. In 1995, Aurbach was honored with the Southeastern College Art Conference Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.
For more information on the lecture, contact William Andrews, museum director at 662-915-7073 or wpandrew@olemiss.edu.
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