Each week the "Shakerag Lecture Series" sponsors a presentation by a special visiting artist. These public Wednesday evening lectures are held at 7:00pm in McCrory Hall 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 Shakerag Lecturer and the Shakerag faculty artists. The 2012 lecturers are Rosemary Magee and Hugh Acheson. Rosemary M. Magee serves as Vice President and Secretary of Emory University. In addition to her leadership in university governance and strategic planning, she chairs the university strategic initiative in Creativity and the Arts. In that role, she has sought to strengthen the role and visibility of the arts, and she has led a wide range of "creativity conversations" with artists as well as with noted scientists and scholars from across the disciplines. Rosemary is an artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences and the Tyrone Guthrie Center. Rosemary will speak about creativity and the role of the arts in our world as the Shakerag Lecturer on Wednesday evening, June 13, 2012. Hugh Acheson is the chef/partner of Five & Ten and The National located in Athens, GA and Empire State South in Atlanta, GA. Hugh's cookbook, titled A New Turn in the South: Southern Flavors Reinvented for Your Kitchen, will go on sale in October of 2011. In that cookbook Hugh creates Southern dishes with a new twist, focusing on Southern libations, seasonal vegetables, salads and soups, Hugh's prized sides, and fish and meats. Hugh's fresh approach to Southern food has earned him recognition from food critics, newspaper columnists, restaurant goers, and the toughest of critics, fellow chefs. Hugh will talk about his career and his ideas about food as the Shakerag Lecturer on Wednesday evening, June 20, 2012. Rosemary Magee, Shakerag Lecturer 2012 Hugh Acheson, Shakerag Lecturer 2012