Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

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Kenneth Bé Lecture & Performance

Kenneth Bé will give a lute recital and lecture in conjunction with Voyage to Italia: Americans in Italy in the 19th Century on Tuesday, Aug. 3 at 5:30 p.m.

The lecture and performance will take place in the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Both events are free and open to the public.

Bé has been performing lute music since 1974, has studied under notable lute players including Paul O'Dette and Nigel North, participated as a musician in the Boston Early Music Festival and has performed frequently in duet recitals with lutenist Ronn McFarlane. He has a deep interest in the role of music and the visual arts in past culture. Kenneth Bé studied art history and also geology at Yale as an undergraduate, geology in graduate studies at the State University of New York at Albany and then art conservation and art history at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Originally from the Hudson River valley region just north of New York City, he was a conservator for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s painting collection since 1987 before moving to Nebraska in 2008.

In Omaha he works as a paintings conservator at the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center through a partnership between the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation and UNO where he is a staff member of the Art and Art History Department.