Artist's Life Lecture Series

Each week the "Artist's Life Lecture Series" sponsors a presentation by a special visiting artist. These public Wednesday evening lectures are held at 7:30 in the James Agee Memorial Library on the campus of St. Andrew's-Sewanee School. Each lecture is followed by a reception in the St. Andrew's-Sewanee Gallery honoring the Artist's Life speakers and the Shakerag faculty artists.

June 17 - Frank Stitt, owner of the Highlands Bar and Grill and Bottega Restaurant in Birmingham, will be our Artist's Life speaker for our first session.  He will discuss cooking as an art and will examine the influence of his personal life on his art.  Frank's first cookbook, Southern Table, was published in 2004, and he has been recognized by Gourmet and Food and Wine magazines as among the top chefs in America, in addition to receiving the James Beard award as Best Chef of the Southeast.

June 24 - Andrew Wagner is the editor-in-chief of ReadyMade magazine. Prior to coming to ReadyMade he was the editor-in-chief of American Craft magazine. Wagner was also the executive editor and founding managing editor of Dwell magazine, where he helped push the boundaries of architecture and design journalism, garnering the publication the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) General Excellence Award in 2005. In 1997, Wagner founded LIMN, the unorthodox design and arts magazine published by the equally unorthodox furniture and design company of the same name, and served as its editor-in-chief until 2000. Wagner was also the founding editor of Dodge City Journal, a magazine dedicated to documenting life in America‚s under-explored cities. In addition to his work at ReadyMade, Wagner is a consulting editor at Places magazine and has been a guest lecturer at University of California Berkeley, Southern California Institute of Architecture, California College of the Arts and Columbia University. His writing has been published in Azure, Blueprint, Breathe, Loud Paper, The San Francisco Chronicle and Travel and Leisure.