Education MACK LECTURE SERIES LIVING ART: ASSAULTING THE MYTHS OF ART AND ILLNESS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1999, 3 PM $6 ($3 WALKER MEMBERS AND STUDENTS WITH ID) AUDITORIUM MEMBERS PAY HALF PRICE!

Artist Yayoi Kusama voluntarily entered a psychiatric clinic in 1977, where she has lived ever since. In this lecture, Dr. Judith Vida examines the unique emotional characteristics and requirements of extremely creative people illustrated by Kusama's life and work. Vida, a graduate of the Stanford School of Medicine, has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychiatry in Pasadena, California. A collector of contemporary art with her husband, Stuart Spence, she has lectured on art at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Laguna Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Cosponsored by the University of Minnesota Medical School.


THE WALKER ART CENTER'S MACK LECTURE SERIES IS SPONSORED BY AARON AND CAROL MACK.