University of Arkansas at Little Rock students will have the opportunity to work with a curator of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art during a lecture series presented April 5-6.

The series, sponsored by the Harvey Stahl Memorial Lecture Series of the International Center of Medieval Art, will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, and at 10:50 a.m. Thursday, April 6,  in the Fine Arts Building, Room 161.

Dr. Barbara Drake Boehm, the Paul and Jill Ruddock senior curator for The Met Cloisters, will work with individual classes at UA Little Rock to discuss topics in medieval history, including text, art, and calligraphy.

Her first presentation,“Lively Letters: Storytelling in Medieval Choir Books,” will explore the unique approach to letters in books created during the Middle Ages. Her second lecture, “The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux,” will examine the art of a prayer book owned by the Queen of France in the 1300s.

Boehm will also present lectures at the University of Arkansas -Fort Smith and the University of Central Arkansas April 3-5.

Each lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Dr. Floyd Martin at 501.569.3140.