The St. Cloud Friends are eager to meet and welcome Robert Cozzolino, Mia’s Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings to St. Cloud on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at the St. Cloud Country Club from 6-9:30 p.m. Bob will speak to us about the Vietnam exhibit as well as the contemporary one he has organized to complement it. Please join us.

Robert Cozzolino began at Mia on February 29, 2016—a leap day. He has been called the “curator of the dispossessed” for championing underrepresented artists and uncommon perspectives on well-known artists. He has collaborated with many contemporary artists, and in 2014 organized the largest American museum exhibition of David Lynch’s visual art. A native of Chicago, he studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago before receiving his MA and PhD (2006) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In his work on American art he has emphasized regional diversity, integrating artists of Illinois, Wisconsin, California, and other areas into installations, thematic exhibitions, and his scholarship. Before joining Mia he was the senior curator and Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, where he oversaw more than 30 exhibitions, including retrospectives of George Tooker, Peter Blume, and Elizabeth Osborne.

Our Menu: : Minnesota Chicken- a Sautéed French Cut Breast, with a velvety sherry cream sauce
Northwood’s Wild Rice with mushrooms and almonds
Seasonal Vegetables
House Salad w/ Balsamic or Ranch
Warm Rolls and Butter

6 p.m.- Cash Bar Reception
7 p.m.- Meal
8 p.m.- Program: An Evening with Robert Cozzolino, Patrick and Amy Butler Curator of Paintings on  ARTISTS RESPOND: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975