A Passion for Art: Illustrator Ashley Bryan and Curator Ruth Fine in Conversation

The Savannah College of Art and Design announced the addition of Ashley Bryan, author and illustrator, and Ruth Fine, a curator at the National Gallery of Art, to its Trustees Lecture Series schedule. The event is free and open to the public.



Ashley Bryan is an award-winning American author and illustrator noted for his children's books. His subjects most often are from the African American experience. Several of his book have garnered awards in children's literature, including the 2009 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award from the Pennsylvania State University, and the Lupine Award from the Maine Library Association. Bryan also received the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion from the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival.

Ruth Fine is the curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. As the curator of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery from 1988 through 2002, Fine organized exhibitions of work by several American artists, including Romare Bearden, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper, Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Fine is also a painter and printmaker whose work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum Library in London; the Museum of the Book at The Hague; and the National Library of Canada. She has illustrated five limited-edition books and has taught studio art at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Beaver College (now Arcadia University), and the University of Vermont.

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