Southeastern to present art crime lecture to open spring series of Let’s Talk Art
Monday, March 9, 2020 
by: Tonya Lowentritt
LECTURE TO FEATURE ART CRIME - Anna Dow, a practicing attorney in Louisiana and a part-time instructor in world art history, will take a look at the fascinating world of theft, fraud, and cultural heritage at Southeastern Louisiana University’s first installment of the lecture series “Let’s Talk: Art.” The free lecture is scheduled March 18 at 5 p.m. in Southeastern’s Contemporary Art Gallery.
HAMMOND – The first lecture in the spring series of “Let’s Talk: Art,” sponsored
jointly by Southeastern Louisiana University’s Department of Visual Art + Design and
the Friends of Sims Library, will be held on Wednesday, March 18, at 5 p.m., at the
Contemporary Art Gallery on Southeastern’s campus.
Anna Dow, a practicing attorney in Louisiana and a part-time instructor in world
art history, will take a look at the fascinating world of theft, fraud, and cultural
heritage in her talk “Art Crimes as Demonstrated in Some Famous (and Not-So-Famous)
Case Studies.”
“If you are interested in true crime and/or antiquities and art, then you’ll
enjoy the first lecture in the spring series of ‘Let’s Talk Art,’” said Sims Library
Director Eric Johnson.
Dow, a 1979 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.,
received a Master of Arts degree in Art History at LSU in 2019. She also completed
post-graduate work in Near Eastern Languages and Literature at the Oriental Institute
at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty at Southeastern, Dow taught
criminal justice and law classes for fifteen years at the University of Phoenix in
Baton Rouge.
“The combination of Anna’s knowledge of criminal law and art history, together
with her love of ancient Egyptian art, should result in an entertaining and thought-provoking
presentation,” said Johnson.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Johnson
at 549-3962 or ejohnson@southeastern.edu.
