Christopher Newport University

Master artist to conduct workshop, lecture at CNU

Note: Time change for reception and lecture

News Release - Aug. 22, 2006

Public's Contact for publication:
Caroline Garrett
CNU Department of Fine Art and Art History
(757) 594-8867
caroline.garrett@cnu.edu

Media Contact:
Karen L. Gill
Office of Communications and Public Relations
(757) 594-8428

Barry Moser

Master wood-engraver and watercolor artist Barry Moser will conduct a workshop, lecture and book-signing at Christopher Newport University on Nov. 2-3.

(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — A master wood-engraver and watercolor artist will conduct a workshop, lecture and book-signing on Nov. 2-3 at Christopher Newport University.

Barry Moser, an award-winning artist who has produced more than 200 titled works that are represented in various prestigious collections, will be at CNU on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3.

His schedule at CNU:

  • Workshop: 3-5:15 p.m., Nov. 2, Ferguson Center for the Arts Painting and Printmaking Studio, reservations required
  • Reception to meet Moser with refreshments served: 6:30-7:15 p.m., Nov. 2, Ferguson Center for the Arts Falk Gallery
  • Lecture: 7:30 p.m., Nov. 2, Ferguson Center for the Arts Studio Theater
  • Book-signing: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2-4 p.m., Nov. 3, David Student Union, CNU Bookstore

All events are free and open to the public, although reservations are required for the workshop.

For more information, contact Elaine Viel, CNU Department of Fine Art and Art History, (757) 594-7930, or Caroline Garrett, CNU Department of Fine Art and Art History, (757) 594-8867, caroline.garrett@cnu.edu.

More about the artist
Barry Moser has experience as a designer, printmaker, painter, illustrator, printer, author, teacher and lecturer. Born in Tennessee, he was schooled at Auburn University, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and then did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

His works are represented in many prestigious collections including the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, Harvard, Princeton and the Library of Congress.

Moser's body of work includes almost 200 titles that he has illustrated or designed, including Lewis Carroll's “Alice in Wonderland,” which won the National Book Award for Design and Illustration in 1983. In 1991, he won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his collaboration with Cynthia Rylant on “Appalachia, the Voices of Sleeping Birds.”

Moser put himself through college as a Methodist preacher. While his calling to the ministry did not last, he retained a love and interest in the Bible.  Moser's four-year labor of love has culminated in his magnum opus, the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, the first Bible fully illustrated by one individual  since Gustave Doré's La Sainte Bible of 1865.

More information about Moser is available at http://www.rmichelson.com/Artist_Pages/Moser/Barry_Moser_gallery.html. 		Don Quixote by Barry Moser
A wood engraving by Barry Moser.

Christopher Newport University is a four-year public university in Newport News, Virginia. CNU enrolls 4,800 students in programs through its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Luter School of Business and offers great teaching, small classes and an emphasis on leadership, civic engagement and honor.  Visit us at www.cnu.edu.