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Brian James Priest is a interdisciplinary artist based in Indianapolis. He has presented his work at Yugong Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, White Flag Project Space and more. Priest was a recipient of the Efroymson Contemporary Art Fellowship and Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship. He is a former Visiting Professor of Sculpture at DePauw University and owner of BJPstudio, a fabrication and design studio. Priest received his BFA from IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design in 2004 and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007.

Curatorial Talk: February 4, 2025 4:30pm at the Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery

This event is free and open to the public.

*This event counts towards punch card credit for students enrolled in an art history, art studio, or design course.

Dr. Marlowe is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art department at Colgate University; she is also the founder and director of the program in Museum Studies. She is an AIA Joukowsky Lecturer for the 2024/2025 National Lecture Program season. She has written about antiquities, repatriation and museums in a variety of venues including the American Journal of Archaeology, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Artnews.

Dr. Marlowe's work has broad appeal to those interested in Archaeology, Museum Studies, the Art Market, and the Ethics of Cultural Heritage.

For more detail, here is an abstract of her talk:
A key strategy in the fight to stop the looting of archaeological sites is to reduce the
market demand for looted artifacts. To this end, in 2008, most U.S. museums ceased acquiring artifacts whose exportation from their country of origin cannot be proven either to have been legal or to have occurred prior to 1970. These well-intentioned guidelines also mean that many ancient artworks and artifacts that are already in private hands can no longer be donated to museums. What has been happening to these objects since 2008? How can we ensure their long-term care without further incentivizing looting? In this talk, I propose a possible solution grounded in partnerships between collectors, university museums, and source countries.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies, The Prindle Institute for Ethics, and the Archaeological Institute of America (Central Indiana Chapter).