El Paso Museum of Art
Lectures

Museum admission: Free

The El Paso Museum of Art announces The Two Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea’s World War II, a lecture presented by Brendan M. Greenley Jr. On Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 2:00 pm in the Energy Auditorium. This program has been generously funded by the El Paso Museum of Art Tom Lea Endowment. This event is free to the public. For the first time, Brendan M. Greenley Jr. has collected virtually all of Tom Lea’s firsthand accounts of his assignments for Life, along with his powerful sketches and unforgettable paintings. Brendan has placed them in context, along with photographs and research focusing on the people, places, and wartime events encountered by Tom Lea. This book will be published by Texas A&M University Press later this year. Brendan M. Greenley Jr. graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1961 and was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served 21 yeas as a Marine Corps attack pilot, including two tours in Vietnam, and commanded Marine Attack Squadron 223 prior to retiring in 1982. He became the Military Editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology and later was the Senior Technical Editor at the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings and Naval History Magazines; He interviewed Tom Lea in El Paso in 1994 and wrote a profile of the Artist for Naval History. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, and is currently working on a book about horses in the West.

Museum admission: Free

The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) announces Art Binational 2008 exhibition Artist Talks every Wednesday from July 2, 2008 – August 20, 2008 starting at 12:15 pm. Each artist will discuss their work of art exhibited in the exhibition. All talks are free to the public. Please contact the Museum at (915) 532-1707 for more information or to RSVP.   Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Binational Artist Talk with David Beathard   Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Binational Artist Talk with Jesus Alvarado   Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Binational Artist Talk with Anthony Lazorko   Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Binational Artist Talk with Alejandra Gamez Garcia   Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Binational Artist Talk with Jackie Mitchell   Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Binational Artist Talk with Ouida Touchon and Michael Alford   Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Binational Artist Talk with Miguel Valenzuela