Beauvais Lyons gave an informative and entertaining lecture for the Hartford Art School. After, he presented his work back in the Printmaking studio for all of us. We all would like to thank him for speaking with us!

Professor Lyons is an artist/printmaker and as Director of the Hokes Archives is an expert on several little known ancient civilizations, the Apasht from the Hindoo Kush Mountains of Afghanistan, the Arenot from north-central Turkey and the Aazudians from the upper Euphrates River region in present day Iraq. Archeological artifacts and the resulting scholarly work on each of these obscure Neolithic cultures are collected in the Hokes Archives, a kind of “kunstkammer” or art cabinet, named for Everitt Ormsby Hokes, who originally collected these pieces. Professor Lyons’ lecture will include many archeological examples from these groups, primarily the splendid lithographic prints that detail some of the material culture in the Archives. The lecture will also include the other collections in the Archives on Creative Zoology and the Medical Arts.

Thanks for the photos from the Printmaking Department.