Monday, March 11, 2024, 3.00pm to 5.30pm EDT
Only 7% of art in British museums and galleries is by women. At the National Gallery in London, it’s just 1%. Murray Edwards College — one of the two higher education institutions for women in the UK — is home to the largest collection of women’s art in Europe. Founded in 1992, The Women’s Art Collection now features over 600 works by leading artists including Barbara Hepworth, Tracey Emin and Lubaina Himid.
You are invited to a special afternoon with the President of Murray Edwards College, Dorothy Byrne speaking at the Society of the Four Arts. Dorothy Byrne will introduce Murray Edwards' Women's Art Collection to the wider Palm Beach community.
After the talk, you are welcome to join Professor Byrne and fellow alumni and friends of Cambridge at a reception at the Four Arts complex. We are excited to announce that Professor Christopher Kelly, Master of Corpus Christi College will join us for the afternoon with Guild Fellow of Corpus Christi and Cambridge in America Board Director, Ms. Shawn Donnelley.
Date: Monday, March 11
Time: 3:00pm - 5:30pm ET
Location: The Society of the Four Arts, Dixon Education Building, 240 Cocoanut Row Palm Beach, FL 33480
If you have any questions or if you are a member of the Society of the Four Arts, please email us at events@cantab.org.
Speaker
Before her Presidency at Murray Edwards, Dorothy was Editor-at-Large at Channel Four Television, having been the Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel Four for many years. Prior to that, she was the Commissioning Editor of Dispatches, the Editor of ITV’s The Big Story and a producer/director on World in Action. She has commissioned multi award-winning films about the treatment of girls and young women with mental health problems and has won major national awards specifically given to women filmmakers.
She has previously been a Visiting Professor at Lincoln and De Montfort Universities and sat on the Advisory Board at Sheffield University’s Journalism Department. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University and has been awarded several honorary doctorates.
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