Art historian Jonathan D. Katz to speak on campus March 13

Art historian Jonathan D. Katz will give a lecture followed by a book signing as part of the Western Washington University Art Department's Visiting Artist Lecture Series at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, in the Old Main Theatre on Western’s campus.

This presentation is free and open to the public.

Katz is an American activist, art historian, educator, writer, and currently the director of the doctoral program in Visual Culture studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the co-curator with David Ward and Jenn Sichel of the exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” the first major museum exploration of the impact of same-sex desire in the creation of modern American portraiture.

Katz received his doctorate from Northwestern University. He is the former executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Gay & Lesbian Studies at Yale University and the former chair of the Department of Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City College of San Francisco, and was the first tenured faculty in Gay and Lesbian Studies in the United States.

The Art Department's Visiting Artist Lecture Series invites a diverse cross-section of artists, thinkers and historians from around the world to enrich Western’s academic environment.

This event is sponsored by the Western Cold Beverage Fund, Western Diversity Fund, GLBT Advocacy Committee, the Department of Art, the Art Department Lecture Series and individual studio areas.