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Ross Gay ’96 is one of three artists featured in “Through the Eyes of Men,” an art exhibition showing through June 22 at the David A. Portlock Black Cultural Center, 101 McCartney St. The other artists are Melvin Butler and Roderick Jordan. The show is curated by Deborah Rabinski.
Gay also will join Lee Klein for a poetry reading during a brown bag reception noon today at the Portlock Center. Free and open to the public, the event will include an artists roundtable. Lunch will be provided.
The recipient of the George Wharton Pepper Prize, awarded to the Lafayette senior who “most nearly represents the Lafayette ideal,” Gay graduated with a bachelor’s degree, double majoring in English and art. He earned honors in studio art and was a starting defensive end on the varsity football team.
Gay holds a master’s degree in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and is in the third year of a Ph.D. program in literature at Temple University. His poems have appeared in Sulfur, Columbia, American Poetry Review, and Harvard Review, among others.
For more information on the exhibit, contact the Portlock Center at 610-330-5819 or portlock@lafayette.edu.
Jared Mast ’04 (left) explored aesthetic theories in an art project with Ross Gay ’96, Dean of Studies Humanities Fellow.