Lecture by Julie Pierotti, Curator, Dixon Gallery and GardensnJulie Novarese Pierotti is currently the Curator at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tenn. A native Memphian, she received a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Mississippi and a master’s degree in art history from Vanderbilt University. Since joining the staff of the Dixon in November 2007, she has helped organize a number of exhibitions for the museum, including Regional Dialect: American Scene Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection, which opened in April of 2009, and its May 2012 follow-up, Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection, in addition to Anything but Clear: the Studio Glass Movement, 1979-2009, which opened in April of 2010. Julie also curates the Dixon’s Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries, which are dedicated to showing the work of contemporary artists in the Memphis area. She has spoken on a number of art historical subjects, from eighteenth-century porcelain to Impressionism to Art Deco.nThis event is part of the lecture series accompanying the exhibition “The Sorrow of Too Many Joys: Satire in 19th Century France,” on view September 5 – December 6, 2015.
General admission is $5; free for OUMA members or with a Petrel Pass.