Gallery Tour by Dr. Jo Stealey, University of Missouri

Reception 5:15 p.m.; Lecture 6 p.m.
Ruth Funk Center Galleries
$10, FREE for Friends of Textiles (FOT) members and Florida Tech faculty, staff and students

Join us for an exclusive tour of Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America by exhibition co-curator Jo Stealey! Dr. Stealey is Professor of Art, chair of the Art Department and the Middlebush Chair for Arts & Humanities at the University of Missouri. She has lectured on the contemporary basket movement at national and international conferences as well as curated many textile and basketry exhibitions. She is recognized nationally for her own sculptural basket work and her work is included in many private and public collections including the Smithsonian. She has served as a board member for the National Basketry Organization (NBO) and regularly contributes articles on American basketry for the NBO Quarterly Review Magazine.