Of Shining Worlds: Recent Paintings by Anne Marchand"
September 19 - October 19, 2011

Gallery Event: Thursday, September 29, 6-7 p.m.

Artist Comments followed by a Poetry Reading 

and Live Music by Maurice Sedacca.

Anne Marchand will give a short talk about her work in the exhibition, Of Shining Worlds: Recent Paintings by Anne Marchand, curated by Claudia Rousseau. Artist Tom Block, scholar of medieval literature, will do a reading of poems by Rumi, the great early thirteenth century Persian mystical poet. The poems have been selected for their relevance to the cosmic iconography of Anne Marchand's paintings. Maurice Sedacca, a musician and composer from New York, will play a prelude and will play between the poems. He will play accompanying music on the the guitar and the oud, a middle eastern instrument that is the forerunner of the lute. http://insidemc.montgomerycollege.edu/showStory.php?id=29678

Location: The King Street Gallery is located on the ground floor of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center on the west side of the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus off Georgia Avenue at 930 King Street. Parking is available in the West Garage, which is located immediately behind the Arts Center.

Map and Directions: http://g.co/maps/m9am6

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
930 King Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910
240-567-5821
http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/arts-tpss/exhibitions/