Jack Yeats: A 150th Birthday Celebration
Jack Yeats was born on August 29, 1871. To mark his 150th birthday friends of his work will gather in a celebration of his art and writing on Sunday, August 29, 2021, at 2 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. Irish time). The program is as follows:
Nicholas Allen – Welcome
Yvonne Scott – ‘Off the Coast of Mayo’
Michael Connerty – ‘Dicky the Birdman Causes a Flutter of Excitement’
Eve Patten – Sketchbooks and Devon
Adam Coleman – ‘Bachelor’s Walk: In Memory’
Kerry Neville – ‘An Atlantic Drive’
Kathryn Milligan – Sketchbooks and New York
Cormac O’Malley – ‘Death for Only One’
Connor Linnie – ‘The Singing Horseman’
Christin Mulligan – ‘By Merrion Strand’
Emily Ridge – ‘The Talkers’
John Purser – ‘Homage to Jack Yeats’
Dermot Bolger – ‘Fairground Ponies (In memory of the painter, Jack B Yeats)’
Nicholas Allen – Close
This virtual event is free to attend and all are welcome; you may register in advance here. Please contact Nicholas Allen at na@uga.edu if you’d like to take part.