Lecture on the “Lost Feminine” with Craig Barnes, June 30th

Please join us for an installment of The Dinner Party Lecture Series:
Craig Barnes–In Search of the Lost Feminine

Saturday, June 30th, 2007, 2-4 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

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Craig S. Barnes lectures on his book In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization. He discusses the earliest civilizations in which women and the environment were at the center, the contributing factors in the creation of patriarchal societies, which have dominated for 3,500 years, and the dramatic effect this change has had on Western history.

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A book signing on the first floor will immediately follow the lecture.

Craig S. Barnes, a former lawyer for women’s rights and the environment, and international negotiator/mediator, is an author, playwright, and essayist. In Search of the Lost Feminine: Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization is available through Fulcrum Books. He is also the author of Growing Up True: A Memoir.

(Image: Molded Breasts Linked by Ever Continuing Spirals that Decorated the Ceiling around All Four Walls of a Large Hall at the Palace at Zakros. Herakleion Museum, Crete. From In Search of the Lost Feminine, by Craig S. Barnes, Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006)

Melissa Messina

Melissa Messina

Before coming to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Melissa Messina earned her MFA from Pratt Institute where she received the Presidential Merit Award in Painting. While there, she coordinated the 2005–06 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, which featured such artists as Vanessa Beecroft, Mariko Mori, Judy Pfaff, and Joan Snyder. During this time, she also worked as a Curatorial and Sales Associate for a private dealer in New York specializing in modern abstraction. Prior to moving to New York, Messina was hired by the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs as an independent curator and executed several regional and national group exhibitions for their public art galleries, City Gallery East and City Gallery at Chastain. In Atlanta, she was also Assistant Director at Comer Art Advisory, LLC, in 2004, and a Curatorial and Marketing Associate for the art consulting firm, Barkin-Leeds Ltd., 2001–2003. She recently was the Assistant Curator to Ernesto Pujol for the exhibition Mediating America (June 2006) at the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, and was invited to jury the exhibition Adam's Rib Eve's Air in Her Hair (January 2007) at the feminist art gallery SOHO20 in Chelsea. Her own artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the Southeast, New England, and New York.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Event