ICMA in LA
Behind the Scenes at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale
Study Day
Saturday, 29 April 2023
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Did you know that Los Angeles’s most famous cemetery (home to Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, among others) is also one of California’s greatest monuments to medieval art and architecture? Founded in 1917, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park includes recreations and reinterpretations of medieval British and Italian architecture, replicas of numerous works of Italian Renaissance art, and — as memorialized in Madeline Caviness’s 1994 Speculum article, “Learning from Forest Lawn” — one of North America’s most extensive collections of medieval stained glass. Come discover this legacy through a behind-the-scenes tour of Forest Lawn’s buildings and art collection with curator James Fishburne and art historian Alison Perchuk and hands-on study of medieval and modern stained glass with Indre McCraw, master glass painter at Judson Studios.
When: 29 April 2023, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Register HERE
Due to space limitations, this event is capped at 25 people.
Organizers: Dr. James E. Fishburne, Curator, Forest Lawn Museum, and Dr. Alison Locke Perchuk, Professor of Art History, California State University Channel Islands