Art Now! with Dr. Paul Ivey

Thursday 8 December • 6pm
FREE for MOCA members, non-members $10
Admission includes light snacks and refreshments

Art Now! gives you the opportunity to share your thoughts on the wildly disparate practices and objects collectively known as “the art of our time.” Guests are encouraged to participate, share, and engage in this playful rendition upending the traditional art history lecture format.

Dr. Paul Ivey is Professor of Art History teaching Modern and Contemporary Art. He researches the built environments and compounds of alternative & esoteric American religions and communal groups. He is the author of Radiance from Halcyon: A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science and Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930. His research interests include metaphysical, Eastern, and esoteric religions in the United States that evolved during the Progressive Era. He studies the art & architecture; class & institutional structures; theology; therapeutic ideals; and political & representational strategies of these related & indigenous religious/philosophical/therapeutic groups.