Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1981 THE COURIE"n-MAll Excliange schetne MRS CAROLINE La unltz– Schmer, Qucens l:1ncl Art Gall ery's senior eclucatlon officer, will vlslt the US. She hn., been selcctecl for nn lntcrn11.llonn1 staff exchan~e with the Detroit Institute of Art. ~lrs Launltz-Schurer, 32. hns worked \\ilh the Art Gallery since mld-1070. She will go to America In J une a.~rt July under the program In• tcrn•Llonal Partnerships Among Museums. The scheme was opei, to com– petition nmong museums all over the world, and only three ex– changes were nvnllable for 1981. Under the exchnnge, the curator of education at the Detroit lnslltutc, Mrs Linda A. Downs, will begin a &Ix-week visit to Queensland later this month. Selection for the program Is based on the potential for pro– ducttve exchange of the museums, nr.d the quallflcntlons o• the participating stnfl members. Queensland Art Oallery director Raoul Mellish said the Detroit Institute had an outstanding public program, and state-wide extension services which were of great Interest to the Queens– land gallery's own developing education program. Mrs Downs, In charge of education programming, will be looking at the program planned tor the new Queenshmd Art Gal– lery and at slate-wide extension services. She will fly to Mount lsa and Talks on art begin mrnu A NEW series of arL lectures organised by the Queens– land i\l'L Gallery's eclucaLlon section will be launched on Sunday. The Courier-Mo ll's •rt c;r,t 1c Dr Gertrude La11Her will open the series. Her free lccLurc. 111 the g:lllcrr ... ,i t, ~.30 p.111., will cllsct1Mi lJtP t,ape~ar.v Syncopee Uy French nrtl5t, Soma Dclaunay nc<1U1rert by the gallery last ycu, O n l\lo11d3y. the first 111 a sr\·cn-lccltlre series on '':\ prr• sonal nppreciRLion of mediernl art. anci an:hiLeciurr." will bP delivered Rt Lhe 1,eln n Grovr. College or ,\dva11ccd Educat1011 by Poler Lnrreny, a for111r r d 1rcctor of the Ar, Gallery of New South Wales. The lcclUre will c:ont111ue uni Ji Apnl 10 , nt R COSl or $10 to adults a nd S5 1 o s,ude111s, .i\ t i .:.m p,rn, Oil April !l In Ille ;;;-aller.v. Professor Michael Sul11- vnn. an :\111cr1cun autllorit.v 1111 Chme5c at'L. will discuss Chi11c,r landscape p;1111t1ng. Profc sor Sulllva11, profr,isor nr Rl'L h1Mory at. Stanford l:lm,·t r– slly. ll'3 tn Australia for !11r luurwh of the nmJor csh1biti 11 of Ch l11rse arL, "Treasure~ or thr F'orb1dclen City" \\ hlch will :,hmv at thr: gallery !I , 111 Juno :! 10 J uly lfJ, T he- lr1·turn Aclnw,.,1011 t·hani r \\'Iii lle ~~ for adults a11cl SI r"r :,\,ttc.l~lll::i, I 1tqut1·1c,"- .rd1ciuld hr <tu·cc:trcl '" tl1c c:d lrry·!- rdlll:.\tlon scullon ;q .!:!!1<!1 :<R. Townsvllle, under a sponsorship arranged by MIM Holdings Ltd, to see prlr.clpal northern nnd western centres. The exchange to Detroit will not be Mrs Launlt,z-Schurer's first e,,pertence ot American an at close hand. She completed a Mn.ster of the Arts course at the Australian National University, and 6tudlcd the paintings and perlort of 19th century America. In 1972, when a Lutor at Syd1•cy University, she won n olx-monlh research scholarship to New York. .. -1.. ,-4' AltT GAl,LERY ',ed~'!J6n offlaer Caroline Lauftlts-S.,...er.