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B. Scott Crawford Lecture Series: Art vs. Tyranny: The Ultimate Selfie
Venue: Alexander Black House & Cultural Center, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
The Blacksburg Museum & Cultural Foundation concludes the B. Scott Crawford Lecture Series with the fourth event titled "Art vs. Tyranny: The Ultimate Selfie" on Thursday, May 15, 2025 at the Alexander Black House & Cultural Center.

We are thrilled to welcome B. Scott Crawford to our museum for a new lecture series! His expertise on art and history makes for compelling theories and conjures up new questions about the world in which we live.

Pierre Daura, Modern Artist and resident mid-20th century Rockbridge County, Virginia, resident, created a unique Cubist inspired work of art in late 1945, possibly early 1946. The painting, titled Pax Pacific, depicts an abstract figure kneeling at a grave. However, the symbolism present within the work, along with a poem discovered as the inspiration of the work, carries this painting into a very different interpretive arena! Through an engaging interpretive journey, this presentation will demonstrate how works of art can easily contain much deeper meanings, and ultimately, in this case, suggest the possibility that a much richer meaning behind the work exists, allowing for the possibility of the abstract figure being a heretofore unknown portrait.

B. Scott Crawford holds a master’s degree in history from Old Dominion University and has an extensive background in education, having taught at the high school and college levels, as well as serving as the social studies coordinator, K-12, for a Virginia school division and as the Director of Education for the Museum of Western Virginia and then Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia. Scott currently serves as President & CEO for Virginia 811.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

The Alexander Black House & Cultural Center is located at 204 Draper Road in Blacksburg, VA.

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