Milo Cleveland Beach, renown museum director, teacher, and scholar of Indian painting is guest speaker in Dr. Pamela Karimi’s Islamic Art class on  Friday, Nov 16, 2012 at CVPA Rm. 156. 3pm-4pm. We encourage students and faculty to attend this informative and insightful presentation.

Dr. Beach held curatorial positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, before becoming a professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 1984 he moved to Washington, DC, to head the new Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, eventually becoming director of both that museum and the Freer Gallery of Art. Dr. Beach retired in 2001 and now devotes his time to research and lecturing.