Free Lectures & Events Coming to The Huntington: American Art & Wildflowers

The Origin of the American Work of Art
Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m.  
What is American about American art?  Can art change America? How might aesthetic education transform the social and economic ideals of the nation? Bill Brown, professor of American culture at the University of Chicago and the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, will discuss case studies from the 1840s to the 1950s that addressed these questions. No reservations required. Free.

Beauty Within and Beauty Without: California’s Native Peoples and Wildflower Fields
Friday, April 19 at 2:30 p.m.
Botanist M. Kat Anderson, author of Tending the Wild, looks back at how deeply intertwined wildflowers were with California Indian culture, and how indigenous people contributed to the diversity and abundance of wildflowers through judicious gathering strategies and stewardship of the landscape. Book signing follows the program. No reservations required. Free.