Betsy Fahlman Talk

  • When: Saturday, October 21, 2017, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
  • Where: Yavapai College Bldg 16 Rm 213
  • Cost: Free
  • Website: Visit
  • Age limit: All ages
  • Categories: Literary

Yavapai College School of Arts and Humanities Presents Special Guest Speaker: Betsy Fahlman Professor of Art History Arizona State University Before WWII, the resident art community of Arizona was comprised mostly of women, and this talk explores these independent spirits. Kate Cory, one of the first to arrive in 1905, chronicled the Hopi mesas. Marjorie Thomas was Scottsdale’s first resident artist. Lillian Wilhelm Smith came to the state to illustrate the works of Zane Grey. Impressionist Jessie Benton Evans’s Scottsdale villa became a social center for local artists. Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton and her husband Harold founded the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1928. Saturday, October 21, 2017, 10:00 a.m. Bldg. 16, Rm. 213 (The Performance Hall Center) Yavapai College Prescott Campus 1100 E. Sheldon St. Prescott, AZ 86301 More information: Contact Christine Sutherland artgalleries@yc.edu | 928.776.2031

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