Scripps Fine Arts Foundation offers monthly lectures and events in Claremont – Daily Bulletin

The Scripps Fine Arts Foundation invites the public to attend free monthly lectures and events from September through May.

For 90 years, the Scripps Fine Arts Foundation has been a volunteer organization whose purpose is to stimulate public interest in art, to develop greater opportunities for the study of art at Claremont’s Scripps College and to benefit the local arts community, according to a news release.

This season the Fine Arts Foundation will offer presentations by local artists and explore art and ceramic collections at various venues with several programs presented in partnership with the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College.

The season kicks off at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, with a lecture about artist Karl Benjamin at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, 200 W. First St. The program, presented by David Pagel, professor of art theory and history at Claremont Graduate University, will include a visit to the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art’s “Complications in Color” exhibition featuring paintings by Benjamin, according to the news release.

In October, the Fine Arts Foundation will revisit the work of Alfredo Ramos Martínez in an exhibition at Scripps College’s Williamson Gallery. Jeff Faust will be the featured artist for the fall luncheon in November, and ET Projects will present a film and program about artist Laurie Brown in December.

The Fine Arts Foundation will visit the 81st Scripps College Ceramic Annual exhibition at Williamson Gallery in February and meet with Scripps College President Amy Marcus-Newhall in March to learn about the Centennial Plaza project.

In April, artist Elizabeth Turk will discuss her Scripps campus sculpture Suspended Meditation, and Marciano Marcino will be the featured artist for the May luncheon, co-hosted with the Rembrandt club.

All programs are free and open to the public, but the Fine Arts Foundation encourages membership to fund programming and art scholarships. Members will receive the monthly announcements by mail and an invitation to the members’ luncheon in January.

For program details and membership registration, go to scripps-faf.org.