By Priscilla Toomey, Chair, Bronxville Adult School

Mar. 29, 2017:  On Thursday, April 6, former Sarah Lawrence dean Jerrilynn Dodds, whose past lectures have been enthusiastically received, returns for a talk titled "Arts of the Revolution: Modern Arts in Cuba Before and After Fidel."

The lecture will be in the Yeager Room of the Bronxville Public Library from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

There is a long tradition in Cuba of connection between the arts and activism. This lecture will explore Cuban Modernism as one expression of Cuban identity before the 1959 Revolution, as well as the arts closely associated with the revolution. Finally, it will show how the unique arts of Cuba reflect an engaged and active community of artists through to today.

Jerrilynn Dodds, professor of the history of art at Sarah Lawrence College, is a widely published scholar as well as a consultant and a distinguished lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers auditorium. Lecturing there for over a decade on a wide range of topics, she has also taught at Columbia University, MIT, Harvard University, and the City University of New York.

Dodds has also curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions and written and directed films on the subject of cultural interaction as seen through art and architecture.

You can register for the lecture online at www.bronxvilleadultschool.org or by phone at 914-793-4435.

Pictured here:  Jerrilynn Dodds.

Photo courtesy Priscilla Toomey, Chair, Bronxville Adult School