As part of its Aralee Strange lecture series, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host Shirley Brice Heath Feb. 22 at 5:30 p.m.
Heath holds the Marjorie Bailey Professorship in English and Dramatic Literature and is a professor emerita of linguistics at Stanford University. Her work focuses on the ways in which long-term engagement with art can drive the linguistic and cognitive development of adolescents. Her talk, “The Arts as Brick and Mortar of Community Building,” will draw from national and international contexts in which the arts are building community togetherness, communication and comfort. Heath’s talk is also a UGA Signature Lecture.
This lecture is funded by the Aralee Strange Fund for Art and Poetry at the museum. Created by donors Kathy Prescott and Grady Thrasher, it honors their friend Aralee Strange, a poet, filmmaker and playwright who lived in Athens and died in 2013.
