Lunch & Learn with Guest Speaker / Artist: Rachel Black

Lunch & Learn is a free monthly in-person program, held the first Tuesday of the month, from 12 noon – 1:30 p.m. at Irving Arts Center.  Rachel Black will join us Tuesday, May 6 from noon to 1:30PM as our featured guest speaker.

Rachel Black is an Irving-based artist and Principal Lecturer and Lead Faculty member of the Foundations program at University of North Texas, will discuss her recent body of work currently on exhibit at the Irving Arts Center, Rachel Black: Journeywork. The exhibit, which is on display through June 28,  features landscape paintings inspired by and informed by her travels throughout the American West during her faculty development leave in the Spring of 2024.  The title of the exhibition, “Journeywork” is taken from a quote from Leaves of Grass (“A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”) by American poet Walt Whitman (1819- 1892). Like Whitman, Black’s work is a celebration of nature and a contemplation on humanity’s place within it.

About Lunch & Learn

Since 2014, this informal art education program for adults has provided fun and informative enrichment opportunities as well as a lively discussion forum for exploring current exhibitions at IAC and other art-related topics.

Irving Arts Center’s Lunch & Learn program is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch or snack.

The 2024-2025 series runs from October 2024 through May 2025.

For more information, please contact Marcie Inman, Curator/ Director of Exhibitions & Educational Programs at minman@cityofirving.org or 972.252.7558, ext. 1225.