Western Libraries Reading Series to Host Author Barry Gough March 4
The Western Libraries Reading Series will host Barry Gough, author of “Juan de Fuca’s Strait” (2012) and other sagas of the Northwest Coast of America, from 4-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4 in Special Collections, Wilson Library 6th Floor, on the Western Washington University campus.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Gough is a former associate professor of History at Western. He will discuss the traditions of marine art and the value of portraying such sailing craft in our own times in his talk, titled “Sailing the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams: Art and European Vision on the Northwest Coast in the Age of Juan de Fuca and His Successors.”
Great practitioners of marine art have always known their marine history and understood the technological features of ships as well as the business of seafaring. Gough will take Bellingham maritime artist Steve Mayo’s paintings as his illustrative texts, and an exhibit of artist Steve Mayo’s watercolor prints will also be on display in Special Collections through the end of winter quarter.
This event is co-sponsored by Western Libraries and Western’s Department of History.
For more information, contact Tamara.Belts@wwu.edu (360) 650-3193