Gallery Talk: Looking for the Light

AU Museum Director, Jack Rasmussen & the artist, Bob Schieffer, will discuss the exhibition "Looking for the Light" in a gallery talk scheduled for

Saturday, 2:00- 3:00pm

In a sweeping exhibition, long-time CBS journalist Bob Schieffer (CBS Evening News, Face the Nation, 60 Minutes, presidential debate moderator) trades microphone for paint brush to document one of America’s most difficult eras. He shows us how the COVID pandemic, and the efforts to combat it, was just the beginning of a deep national divide.

Ultimately, his paintings tell a story of hope. Awful times such as these often produce heroes. He counts Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman among them and finds inspiration in her poem “The Hill We Climb” as she tells us “For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

Artist: Bob Schieffer
Curator: Michael Beschloss

This event will be held in-person at the museum.

Please direct any questions about this event to the museum's main contact for this event, Patricia Edwine-Poku at [email protected].

Host or Publisher American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center