“When Writing Becomes Art: A Key Aspect of Islamic Culture”
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
President’s Suite, Kilcawley Center
Sheila Blair is Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College. She teaches about all aspects of Islamic art from the earliest to modern times. Author or co-author of 17 books and more than 200 academic articles, she has won many international awards in her field. With her husband and colleague, Professor Jonathan Bloom, she served as artistic consultant to the three-hour documentary Islam: Empire of Faith, shown nationally on PBS.
Free and Open to the Public! Classes welcome!
For further information, call the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at 330–941–3448.