September 6 – October 30, 2005
Drawings (and works in other media) made by contemporary artists when they were children.

Wednesday, Sept 28, 6:30 PM
Lecture: Gifts of Seeing: Thoughts on Art and Childhood by Dr. Jonathan Fineberg, Stiteler Auditorium, Murphy Hall
Opening reception following immediately in the art gallery.

Jonathan Fineberg is Gutgsell Professor of Art History, Visiting Professor in Computer Science, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and trained as a research candidate in psychoanalysis at the Boston and Western New England Institutes for Psychoanalysis. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia Universities and is a trustee of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.

He has won numerous awards including the 1969 Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts Art Critic's Fellowship, the Dedalus Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, and the College Art Association’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in the History of Art. He has curated major exhibitions in the United States and abroad and published more than a dozen books and catalogs as well as over 40 articles in journals ranging from Artforum to The New York Times. He is known for his persevering interest in emerging artists and his work on the psychology of creativity. His most recent books are Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to the Gates, The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and the Modern Artist, and Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (soon to appear in a 3rd edition).

He has just completed a book and a two-hour PBS television special (in collaboration with his colleague John Carlin) called Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art. The program will air network wide on December 28th of 2005 and the book is being released by Yale University Press in October 2005. Also forthcoming in 2007 is his book and exhibition catalogue: When We Were Young: The Art of the Child (University of California Press).