FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

02/15/04
Louisa Handle
(617) 349-8579
lhandle@lesley.edu

The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University 2003-04 du Pont Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Cybale Clark-Mendes on March 18

Boston, MA - Cybale Clark-Mendes will discuss the search for identity through art at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University on March 18.

Through photography and video, Clark-Mendes examines identity and self-hood. A professor at Western Michigan University, Clark-Mendes also makes works in Havana, Cuba, -- a place she credits with giving her a clearer understanding of how she fits into society, both as an American and as a woman of mixed heritage.

"In Havana, I feel at home due to the multiplicity of race and identities existing there," she says.

The Art Institute of Boston's du Pont Visiting Artist Lecture Series, established in 1993, is a series of public lectures and workshops featuring outstanding contemporary artists from diverse backgrounds. The series is supported in part by AIB alumna Sindi Rust Westburg; the Boston Council for the Arts, a municipal agency; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. March 18 in the second floor auditorium of the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Lectures are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. The Institute is located at 700 Beacon St., near the Kenmore Square T-stop on the green line. For more information, contact 617-262-1223.

Lesley University (www.lesley.edu) is a 13,000-student, multi-site university for women and men. Anchored by a strong liberal arts curriculum, Lesley offers undergraduate and graduate programs in education, the arts, and human services at its Cambridge and Boston campuses and at more than 150 sites in 21 states. Lesley's five schools include the School of Education, the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, the Adult Baccalaureate College, The Art Institute of Boston, and Lesley College, an undergraduate women's college.