The McClung Student Advisory Board is pleased to present a lecture by Henry Skerritt, the curator of the Indigenous Arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.

Skerritt's lecture will complement the exhibition, "Shane Pickett: Djinong Djina Boodja (Look at the Land that I Have Traveled)", which is on view at the McClung Musuem from January 14 through May 7. His lecture is co-sponsored by the UT Department of Anthropology and Department of Geography.

Henry Skerritt has curated numerous exhibitions including No Boundaries: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Abstract Painting (2015); Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia (2016) and The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles (2019) and was editor of the accompanying catalogs all of which were published by DelMonico Books/Prestel.

Skerritt holds a PhD in art history from the University of Pittsburgh and a Masters of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne. He is currently working on a major touring exhibition that surveys eight decades of bark painting from northern Australia curated collaboratively with the Yolngu community at Yirrkala.

The touring exhibition, "Shane Pickett: Djinong Djina Boodja (Look at the Land that I Have Traveled)," is a partnership between the Mossenson Art Foundation, the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC, and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.