Rebecca Albiani’s Art History Lecture Series highlights works in the Frye Collections and exhibitions and illuminates topics in the world history of art. Educational and entertaining, Albiani’s illustrated lectures expand understanding of visual art, artists, and the culture of their times.

New this year is Kolya Rice’s Topics of Contemporary Art, a series for those seeking a broader understanding of art of today. Designed to orient the casual observer and invigorate the committed art lover, this series of illustrated lectures traces key developments, themes, and strategies explored by contemporary artists. In each lecture, Rice approaches contemporary art as a cultural field most richly experienced through an understanding of its multiple, intertwined contexts.

Join the instructor and colleagues after each Thursday night lecture for conversation and coffee and dessert.

Educators: Continuing education credits and clock hours are available for these lectures. See the box below for more information.

About the Instructors

Rebecca Albiani

Albiani, a Seattle-based art historian, is a Ph.D. candidate in Renaissance art history, and received an M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from University of California Berkeley, where she majored in art history and spent her junior year in Venice. As a student, she was a graduate lecturing fellow at Washington's National Gallery and a Fulbright Scholar in Venice. Since 1997 she has taught the Frye art history lecture series.
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Kolya Rice

Rice, currently a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art history and criticism at the University of Washington (UW), was raised in the Seattle area and received his M.A. from Rice University. He has taught courses on western art, theory, and criticism at the UW and Seattle University over the past decade, and is an adjunct professor in the UW's Art History and Master of Arts in Museology program.