Feb 8th 2018

Reading Egyptian Art

@ The Art Institute of Chicago

111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603

Opening Thursday, February 8th, from 12PM - 1PM

Elizabeth McIlvaine Assistant Curator Ashley Arico, museum educator Lucas Livingston, and Ancient and Byzantine Art department technician Eric Warner bring out a work of art from storage for a pop-up discussion of the wonderful interplay between word and image in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

To request an accessibility accommodation for an Art Institute program, please call (312) 443-3680 or send an e-mail to access@artic.edu as far in advance as possible.

Meet in Griffin Court
Free to Illinois residents or with museum admission

Image: Egypt, Wall Fragment from the Tomb of Amenemhet and His Wife Hemet, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12 (1976-1794 BC). Museum Purchase Fund.

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