Reed Kroloff Presents 'Changing the World' Lecture on Feb. 12 in Little Rock

Reed Kroloff is director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (Courtesy photo)
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Reed Kroloff is director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (Courtesy photo)

Reed Kroloff will present a lecture titled “Changing the World: One Installation at a Time” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the Arkansas Arts Center, 501 E. Ninth St., in Little Rock. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the center’s Lecture Hall, following a 5:30 p.m. reception.

This lecture is part of the Architecture and Design Network’s 2012-13 Art of Architecture lecture series.

Since 2007, Kroloff has been the director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. This graduate school of arts and design prides itself on being a community. Cranbrook has been home to such luminaries as Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames, Daniel Libeskind, Florence Knoll, Tod Williams and Toshiko Takaezu.

Kroloff also served as a member and chair of the jury that selected the winners of the 2012 design competition sponsored by the Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

The 2012-13 Art of Architecture lecture series is sponsored by the Architecture and Design Network, with support from the Central Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Arkansas Arts Center and the Fay Jones School of Architecture.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, email projects4pi@mac.com.

Contacts

Michelle Parks, director of communications
Fay Jones School of Architecture
479-575-4704, mparks17@uark.edu

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