The Clyde Burroughs Dinner & Lecture Series

ABOUT THE CLYDE BURROUGHS LECTURE SERIES

The Burroughs Lecture Series is a vibrant forum where artists, art historians, members, and guests gather at the Scarab Club to explore American art spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Distinguished speakers have included celebrated figures like Michele Oka Doner, Michael Hodges, Ron Staley, and Barbara Haskell, each bringing their expertise to illuminate different facets of America's artistic legacy. These presentations reveal the depth and complexity of American art, architecture and design through varied scholarly and creative lenses.

The experience extends beyond the lecture itself, beginning with a cocktail reception and an elegant dinner shared with the featured speaker in the Scarab Club's storied Lounge.

The Program:

6p - Cocktails in the garden and/or gallery

7p - Dinner in the Scarab Members' Lounge

8p - Presentation in the Gallery

Lecture Only Tickets Available at a Discounted Rate:

• Scarab Club Member - $25
• Non-Member - $35
• $15/Student with ID

The Series:
September 30, 2026 - Casey Granton

Casey plans to explore the Comon Ground’s sweet brief time through a little sightseeing in the Corridor. She would like to convey at least a hint of the lived experience that merged transcendent magic with tangible fear, momentary dalliances with life-long loves. Critics and curators in their compulsion to contextualize artwork and art making have regularly used the Corridor as a convenient metaphor for the decline of Western civilization. But to see the Corridor as merely a melodrama of social collapse simply makes you the antagonist in a rather banal story. The Corridor was a compelling, disturbing fairy tale, a fable, a bedtime story for those brave enough to listen.

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