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Diana Martinez to lecture on ‘Andy Warhol: The American Dream’ at Water Street Studios in Batavia

Major retrospective runs to Sept. 10 at Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn

By Shaw Local News Network
[Diana Martinez, director of the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, is helping bring a world-class Frida Kahlo art exhibition to Glen Ellyn.] GLEN ELLYN – In anticipation of a major exhibition of works by mid-20th century artist Frida Kahlo, a crowd filled the auditorium at the McAninch Arts Center in November to hear plans for a three-month show in 2020 expected to draw a wide audience to the College of DuPage campus in Glen Ellyn. Events leading to the immersive exhibit, which officially opens in June 2020, will begin with a gala in spring 2019 designed to raise awareness and funding for the project. Curricula across multiple academic fields at the college will tie into the Mexican artist and her era. The exhibit will spark visual and performing arts offerings from music and dance to film. And a Frida Fest will be presented by the McAninch Arts Center on Sept. 14, 2019.

After Diana Martinez, director of the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, helped bring a world-class Frida Kahlo art exhibition to Glen Ellyn, she's done it again with Andy Warhol, and will discuss this summer's blockbuster exhibition at 7 p.m. July 19 in a free lecture on the artist at Water Street Studios in Batavia. (Renee Tomell)

BATAVIA – Art lovers can attend a free lecture about the life of Andy Warhol at 7 p.m. July 19 at Water Street Studios in Batavia, offered in partnership with the Warhol exhibition at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art on the College of DuPage campus in Glen Ellyn through Sept. 10.

The presenter is Diana Martinez, director of the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, and executive director of the blockbuster exhibition. The Glen Ellyn native was director of entertainment at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles early in her career, and later helmed the Paramount Arts Centre in Aurora through its period of rebirth.

Martinez will explore the background of Andy Warhol and his journey as a first-generation immigrant from Carpatho-Rusyn roots, to living in industrial tenements in the outskirts of Pittsburgh, to an iconic superstar in New York City, according to a news release. Martinez will explain his prolific journey and how he manifested the American dream.

Water Street Studios is at 160 S. Water St. Reservations are requested at tinyurl.com/m7wyznrx.

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