Lunch & Learn: Exhibition Focus: Blue Ridge Conservancy & Gayle Lowry

The Forever Protected exhibition began as a conversation between the artist and Walter Clark of the Blue Ridge Conservancy (BRC) over two years ago.  This conversation was about the artist painting some of the special protected lands in the High Country – particularly those protected by BRC. To date, BRC has protected hundreds of properties and over 16,000 acres. Gayle Lowry is painting many of the private farmland properties, properties that are part of the North Carolina State Park system and many other properties that are part of the Blue Ridge Mountain landscape.

This session will be lead by Walter Clark, Executive Director and Rob McCorkindale, Land Protection Specialist of the Blue Ridge Conservancy and focus on forms of preservation through the arts as we examine the partnership between the BRC and the artist.

Lunch & Learns are informative seminars that provide opportunities to deepen your knowledge about different aspects of the Turchin Center’s exhibition programming. Join us during the third Wednesday each month for in depth, lunch-time talks with the experts. Bring a bagged lunch and we will provide bottled water.