Museum offers art lectures

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University’s art department will present three free guest lectures this month in the McDonough Museum’s lecture hall.

First is jewelry artist Estela Saez at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Seaz lives in Amsterdam, and exhibits her work in galleries and museums around the world. Her pieces have been published in various magazines, catalogs and specialized books on jewelry.

Gregory Volk will lecture at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

Volk is a New York-based art critic and freelance curator who writes regularly for Art in America.

Photographer Laura Letinsky will end the series at 3 p.m. March 23.

Letinsky, a professor at the University of Chicago, recently began photographing in the twilight, and the subject matter of her recent still-lifes mirror the darker lighting and mood with a grotesque beauty.

Letinsky’s work is in the collections of the Stuttgart Museum, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

The McDonough Museum is on Wick Avenue, across from the Butler Insitute of American Art. Parking is available in the M1 parking deck on Wick Avenue for a nominal fee.