Brief: Naive art to be topic of guest speaker

Chicago gallery owner Carl Hammer will be the guest speaker at the Krannert
Art Museum Council's annual fall dinner Wednesday at the Champaign Country
Club.

Hammer, the proprietor of Carl Hammer Gallery and a collector and
connoisseur of naive and outsider art, will share his insights on the
special relationship between the artist and the work he or she creates. His
appearance coincides with the museum's current exhibition, "Driven to
Create: The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught and Outsider Art,"
which is on view through Nov. 6.

The event includes a cash bar that opens at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be served
at 6 p.m., with the lecture to follow at 7 p.m. Paid dinner reservations
will be accepted at the museum office through Friday. The cost for museum
members is $17 for the dinner and lecture, $19 for non-members. Members who
wish only to attend the lecture may do so for free; the cost for
non-members is $6.

While at the UI, Hammer also will participate in a symposium at the museum
at 7 p.m. Friday. He will join UI history professor David Prochaska, art
history professor Jonathan Fineberg and Champaign artist Glen Davis in a
discussion of the topic, "How Far Out is Outsider Art?"