THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
6PM LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
7PM PRESENTATION
THE LINCOLN FINANCIAL MURAL ARTS CENTER
AT THE THOMAS EAKINS HOUSE
1727-29 MOUNT VERNON STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Mural historian and independent scholar, Timothy Drescher, will give a slide presentation and lecture about 20th century murals in relation to the politics of the time. Pulling from his vast collection of tens of thousands of mural images, Drescher will seek to clarify misguided notions about murals being revolutionary, although that was the vocabulary often used at the time.
Timothy W. Drescher, Ph.D. is an independent scholar from Berkeley, CA who has been studying, documenting, and photographing community murals since 1972. He authored San Francisco Bay Area Murals: Communities Create Their Muses, 1904-1997 (3rd ed., 1998), as well as numerous articles about murals and community arts including the forward to Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell by Jane Golden and Robin Rice, published by Temple University Press in 2002. Drescher has taught at San Francisco State University for over two decades, and served as co-editor of the magazine Community Murals from 1976-1987. He also consults and lectures widely on the subject, actively campaigning for the conservation of murals throughout the United States. Currently, Drescher is writing a history of 20th century community murals.
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