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Last 'Art Up Close!' of 2017 scheduled for Nov. 14

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A 19th century portrait of a mother and two of her children by will be the focus of the next Art Up Close! at the Art Museum of West Virginia University at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 14.

Kathryn Moffett, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the WVU School of Medicine and Chief, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases will examine a portrait of Thomazine Keirle Mallowee, 1837, by Thomas J. Jackson, a gift to the museum from the family of Elaine Cather Slonneger and Robert Dean Slonneger. The program begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Museum Education Center Grand Hall and is free and open to the public. Parking is available in Lot 51.

Dr. Moffett will discuss the portrait from her medical perspective as a pediatrician and as a faculty member. Dr. Moffett has been bringing her third year medical students to the Art Museum for over two years where to participate in exercises led by museum staff in the art of observation, attention to detail and pattern which they can apply in their clinical practice.

In addition to her work in the School of Medicine, Moffett is director of the Mountain State Cystic Fibrosis Center. She is board-certified in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine, in Hershey. She had a fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta and did her residency in Pediatrics at the Akron Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Art Up Close! events are held through the academic year and present WVU faculty and guest artists from various disciplines discussing a single work of art from the perspectives of their disciplines. The events are co-sponsored by the Friends of the Museum, a membership group for people who enjoy the arts and social, educational and cultural activities revolving around art.

For more information about the program on Nov. 14, contact the Art Museum of WVU at (304) 293-7790 or visit the website at http://artmuseum.wvu.edu/