The World of Mark Catesby: A Symposium

9am Speaker Sessions
12Noon Lunch
12:45pm Tour of Exhibition Scheduled for the opening weekend of the exhibition Artist, Scientist, Explorer: Mark Catesby in the Carolinas, the Gibbes Museum will bring together experts and scholars from Britain and the U.S. to delve into the far reaching significance of Catesby’s work and its impact on the arts and sciences. Speaker include Henrietta McBurney Ryan, curator of collections, Newnham College, Cambridge; formerly deputy keeper of prints and drawings, Royal Library, Windsor Castle, and keeper of fine and decorative arts, Eton College; author of forthcoming book on Catesby’s art and science; Leslie K. Overstreet, curator of Natural-History Rare Books, Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, Smithsonian Libraries; Carter Hudgins, president and CEO of Drayton Hall Preservation Trust; Richard Porcher, Jr., professor of biology at the Citadel; David Elliott, executive director of the Catesby Commemorative Trust; Kate Heard, senior curator of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust, and Patrick McMillan, naturalist and host of Expeditions with Patrick McMillan on PBS. Following lunch and a tour of the exhibition by Henrietta Ryan, Graham Arader will provide an informal discussion with three examples around the variation between print editions of Mark Catesby's work. SOLD OUT!