Great Neck Library is celebrating Native American Heritage Month, inviting residents to join Professor Val Franco for a closer look at some of the incredible Native American artists in today’s contemporary art.
The lecture will focus on Native American & First Persons artists from across the continent, including works by Sara A. Young Bear-Brown, Kent Monkmon, John Louis Clarke, Jeffrey Gibson and Benjamin “Nat” Qamanirq.
It will explore their works and differing styles, as well as the life experiences they choose to share with the world that have led you to their artistic output.
Franco, known on social media as ProfValFranco, has written and spoken on film and art on film on academic panels and in colleges throughout the United States and Europe, including the Italian Cultural Institute, Queens College, Fordham University, Hadassah, Sarah Lawrence College, Cerritos College in Los Angeles, the Nottingham Cultural Exchange in England,and the Universities of Salerno and Calabria, in Italy.
She has been a Featured Lecturer at the FIERI National Convention, The Sarasota Italian Cultural Event in Florida and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Reggio Calabria.
Professor Franco’s research has been published in academic journals and her awards and grants include the Filmmakers’ Champagne Award from Eastman Kodak, The International Rotary Club’s Scambio Culturale for Distinguished Professionals and the National Italian American Foundation sponsored Graduates to Leaders Conference.
She has been interviewed for print & broadcast outlets here in the United States and throughout Italy and has presented her research at international conferences including the Italian American Historical Association’s Southern Exposures Conference in Baton Rouge; Southern Connecticut State University’s Analyzing the Text Conference in New Haven and the University of Southern Florida’s Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literature and Film in Tampa.
A Hutton House lecturer on cinema and the visual arts at LIU/ Post, she currently hosts a weekly podcast on film and art.
In addition to running trips to tri-state museums and galleries, she continues to curate annual tours to Italy & Europe focused on food, wine, museums and UNESCO World Heritage sites.
This lecture will be at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road, 2nd Level in Great Neck, on Monday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m.
Registration for this lecture is not required.
For more information, please contact Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.
