Audubon lecture at UMO
By From staff reports
Published in News on February 8, 2015 1:50 AM
MOUNT OLIVE -- The University of Mount Olive will hold a lecture by Joseph Covington on "Birds on the Bayous: John James Audubon in Louisiana."
The lecture will take place on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Southern Bank Auditorium.
John James Audubon was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America, but for half a century, he was the young country's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists are measured.
This lecture is part of the North Carolina Museum of Art's college outreach project with the University of Mount Olive. Admission to the event is free. For more information about the lecture, contact Larry Lean at llean@umo.edu.