Works of art created during the New Deal are the subject of a free public lecture to be presented by Ann Prentice Wagner on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in 240 Art Building West on the University of Iowa campus.

“The American Scene: Place in New Deal Art” is presented in conjunction with the UI Museum of Art’s exhibition, New Forms: The Avant-Garde Meets the American Scene, 1934-1949, currently on display in the Black Box Theater of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Wagner is curator of drawings at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock and has previously worked for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, George Mason University, Towson State University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. She has spent more than two decades curating exhibitions.

In 2009, with George Gurney, curator emeritus of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, she co-curated1934: A New Deal for Artists, which spotlighted the work of artists involved in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Public Works of Art Project. She has written and presented extensively on American art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Maryland.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to attend this lecture, contact the UI Museum of Art in advance at 319-335-1727.